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Friends Say After Daniel Died, His Mother Died of a “Broken Heart.”

By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

In a legal victory for Anna Nicole Smith’s beleagured lawyer and longtime companion, Howard K. Stern, the Bahamian magistrate says he will instruct inquest jurors that homicide has been ruled out as an option as a cause of death in Daniel Smith.

We’re told Magistrate William Campbell today hashed out four possible options jurors can choose from in determining cause of death in the 20 year old son of the late Playboy model and reality TV star, who died of a drug overdose in September, 2006:

–accident, “misadventure non-dependent drug use and an “open verdict,” which means they cannot agree how he died.

Jurors will return March 31, courtroom sources tell The Bald Truth, to hear the judge’s instructions, then take two hours to return their verdict, or “finding,” as it’s called. Read the rest of this entry »

Lawyer Howard K. Stern Warms Up On The Stand…In Florida

By Art Harris, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

In what some described as “powerful” testimony, Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer and longtime companion told a Bahamas’ inquest jury Tuesday what he’s been confiding to friends and family for months–that he was shocked to learn Daniel was abusing drugs, and at first didn’t buy toxicology reports citing a deadly stew of methadone and anti-depressants as what killed her son.

According to the Associated Press, other media accounts and my sources in court, Stern told the jury looking into the cause of death that drug abuse just didn’t jive with the young man he knew.

At first, he saw the toxicology reports as “a set-up,” then learned more about Daniel’s secret life, heart-breaking clues he only recently connected up—and has had a hard time accepting — after he died: a bottle of Zoloft in his backpack, that he may have taken a bottle of methadone pills from Anna’s Studio City house, that he’d been admitted to a hospital ICU for valium “misuse,” that he was depressed after breaking up with a girlfriend. Read the rest of this entry »

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Here’s what Bianca Symonette reports in Tuesday’s Nassau Guardian:

“The inquest into the death of Daniel Smith, the 20-year-old son of the late actress and model Anna Nicole Smith, resumed on Monday. Larry Birkhead, father of Anna Nicole’s one-year-old daughter Dannielynn, took the witness stand and gave evidence indicating that Daniel had stolen a bottle of methadone from his mother’s medications.

According to Anna Nicole’s former lover, during the Easter weekend in April 2006, Anna Nicole noticed that a bottle of her methadone medication was missing, after she returned from spending a few days in a hotel in California. Birkhead said Daniel was the only one at home at the time, but he denied taking the medication. Read the rest of this entry »

Bahamas Inquest: All The “Usual Suspects” Monday

By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved.

Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel, was caught on his mother’s home security camera taking a bottle of methadone pills from her hiding place, Larry Birkhead testified Monday in the Bahamas inquest into the 20 year old’s tragic overdose in September, 2006.

Sources in the courtroom also tell The Bald Truth exclusively that when the bottle turned up missing in April, 2006, Birkhead said he reviewed the tape from her Studio City home with Anna Nicole and it showed Daniel red-handed, with friends in the house rummaging around. Later, he tesified, they also discovered an empty bottle of whiskey in the garbage. Read the rest of this entry »