Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled a formal inquiry into the death for March 27.
Low levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, Wecht said. 10 in his mother’s hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.Īn American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally.” In a statement, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said: “I am very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole’s passing. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who represented Marshall, said in a statement: “We’re very shocked by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family.” She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in “The Hudsucker Proxy” in 1994.Īfter news came of Smith’s death, G.
Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie.
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She starred in her own reality TV series, “The Anna Nicole Show,” in 2002-04. But the family said the court fight would continue. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to his estate.Ī federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. Marshall died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a feud with Smith’s former stepson, E. “He got a little twinkle in his eyes, and he asked me to dance for him. “He had no will to live and I went over to see him,” she said. In a 2005 interview with ABC Smith recalled meeting Marshall at what she called a “gentleman’s club’ in Houston. In 1992, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $550 million. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads. She became Playboy’s playmate of the year in 1993. The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She’s been besieged … and she’s been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she’s endured.” Her attorney Ron Rale told The Associated Press that he had talked to Smith on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.