As Anna Nicole's World Turns...
Anna Nicole Smith is: (a) ailing; (b) fighting for her home; (c) dealing with new headlines about the death of her son.
The answer is (d): all of the above.
"All of this is happening, and it would definitely stress and beleaguer any of us," Smith attorney Wayne Munroe said Thursday. "But at the same time, she is quite resolute in what she intends to do.
"She does not roll over."
In short, Smith, hospitalized since Monday for pneumonia, is not moving out of her $1 million house in the Bahamas, her lawyer says. Not without the Bahamian Supreme Court weighing in first.
On Tuesday, Smith, a recent Bahamian transplant, filed a lawsuit there, asking the island country's high court to declare that she is the legal owner of her house. This, after a South Carolina real-estate developer and purported ex-flame of Smith declared that he was the owner, that Smith was in arrears to him, and that he wanted her out.
At a press conference Thursday in the Bahamas, G. Ben Thompson told reporters he and Smith enjoyed a "short relationship" last year, according to the Associated Press. The two apparently remained on good enough terms for Thompson to describe Smith in July as a "kind, generous and caring person" in a letter of reference to the Bahamas' Ministry of Immigration, per a document supplied by Munroe's office.
"The business dealings that I have had with her have always been fair, honest and of the highest integrity," the letter attributed to Thompson said. "Many of our dealings were based only on a handshake."
On Thursday, Thompson said Smith hasn't repaid money he lent her to buy the Bahamian house.
"I'm shocked and appalled at what she's done," Thompson said.
Upping the press conference's tabloid quotient, Thompson said that Smith told him he was the father of her newborn daughter. But unlike Larry Birkhead, another reputed ex-boyfriend of Smith, Thompson said he's not the father of her newborn daughter. Smith's camp has declared that longtime Smith attorney Howard K. Stern is the father of Dannielynn Hope, born Sept. 7. Smith and Stern exchanged commitment vows in a non-wedding ceremony on Sept. 28.
Birkhead, for his part, filed a paternity suit against Smith on Oct. 2. The latest twist in that tale emerged Thursday with TMZ.com obtaining an apparently not-so sealed court declaration in which a female acquaintance of Smith says the model told her via phone calls and instant messages that Birkhead was the father of her then unborn child.
Amid this drama, Smith, 38, remained in the hospital in the Bahamas Thursday, Munroe said. The TrimSpa endorser was recuperating in the same facility where she gave birth--and where her adult son, Daniel, died Sept. 10 of what a family-retained pathologist termed an accidental overdose of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro.
New reports that seven drugs--and not just the previously identified three--had been detected in Daniel Smith's system were dismissed Thursday by the same private pathologist.
Dr. Cyril Wecht said that while, yes, a total of seven drugs turned up in the lab results, only methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro were present in toxic, killer amounts.
"There was some Benadryl, and some Sudafed, both in sub-therapeutic levels, and they don't do anything," Wecht said of two of the other detected drugs.
Benadryl is an over-the-counter allergy medicine; Sudafed is an over-the-counter nasal decongestant.
Also found in Daniel Smith, according to Wecht, were trace amounts of Elavil, the brand name for the antidepressant Amitriptyline, and a fourth drug which the pathologist declined to identify, citing confidentiality.
"It's not for venereal disease," Wecht said in an aside.
If the additional drugs in Daniel Smith's system weren't news to Wecht--and he says they weren't--then that doesn't mean he's not puzzled by the presence of one of the drugs: the methadone.
A narcotic prescribed as a painkiller or a heroin-addiction salve, Wecht said he still doesn't know how, why or where Daniel Smith got it.
"It's a question that continues to vex me," Wecht said. "I have asked a thousand and one times, and I haven't received [an answer]."





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