And the search for answers continues.
On Tuesday, Bahaman authorities set Mar. 27 as the date for the long-awaited inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel.
"It's to try and answer all the unanswered questions that have been raised in this matter," Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez told reporters. "We hope by going through this process and having lawyers cross-examine witnesses that more information would come out."
The show is finally getting on the road several months after local residents, gadflies and newspaper columnists accused officials of giving Smith, 39, preferential treatment as they sped up an investigation for the TrimSpa spokesmodel's son while others waited substantially longer for inquests into the deaths of their loved ones.
Coroner Linda Virgill originally declared Daniel's sudden death "suspicious" and scheduled an inquest for October before being removed from the case in light of all the complaints.
Daniel Smith died in a Nassau hospital on Sept. 10, three days after Anna Nicole Smith gave birth to daughter Dannielynn Hope. (The baby is now the subject of a paternity suit filed by Smith's ex-boyfriend, photographer Larry Birkhead. Smith has since been ordered by a Los Angeles court to submit her baby girl for DNA testing by Jan. 23, a move that theoretically will settle once and for all whether Birkhead or Smith's lawyer-turned-paramour Howard K. Stern is the child's father.)
Two autopsies were performed on Daniel, one by a Bahaman official and another by private pathologist Cyril Wecht who was hired by Smith. Wecht determined that the cause of death was a heart attack brought on by lethal combination of methadone and the antidepressants Lexapro and Zoloft.
Wecht eventually confirmed that Daniel had seven different drugs, including Benadryl and Sudafed, in his system at the time of his death, but the pathologist maintained that it was still the aforementioned methadone-antidepressant cocktail that killed Daniel.
While Smith and Stern were holed up in the Bahamas, police made several visits to their waterfront home to question the newly public couple, although authorities maintained that they did not suspect foul play in Daniel's death.
The police report detailing the final results of their investigation was handed over to Gomez on Friday.
TMZ.com reported Tuesday that more than 20 witnesses are on call to testify at the inquest, including one who will say that Stern was one of the last people to see Daniel alive and possibly could have provided him with methadone.
When Birkhead filed his paternity suit against Smith in October, days after Stern announced that he was Dannielynn's father, he alleged that Smith had been using methadone and that Stern was facilitating her habit. A lawyer for the couple disputed the claim.
Smith and Stern returned to the U.S. last month so the former reality star could attend a mediation hearing in San Francisco related to the much-disputed $1.6 billion estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who was in his eighties when he married the former Playboy Playmate.