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NASSAU, Bahamas, September 12, 2006 - Mystery still surrounds the death of the son of American actress and model Anna Nicole Smith here in The Bahamas.
Police say that the 20-year old Daniel Wayne Smith was visiting his mother at Doctors Hospital in Nassau when he died suddenly .
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Reginald Ferguson, said that his mother went to the hospital last week to give birth to a baby girl. Daniel went to her room, sat in a chair by her bedside and seemingly fell asleep.
"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep, she tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive, and she sounded the alarm."
He was dead.
Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967), is an American actress and model who first gained popularity as Playboy magazine's 1993 Playmate of the Year. Her career and public image subsequently suffered as her weight gain and bizarre antics were put on display in supermarket tabloids and in her short-lived reality television show. More recently, Smith slimmed down and became the spokesperson for the weight loss product TrimSpa.
She married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 - a man 63 years her senior. She was at the time working as an exotic dancer in a nightclub in Houston under various assumed name. It was here that Marshall, a frequent customer of the strip club met Smith. The year after their marriage, Marshall died and Smith remains locked in a Court battle over his inheritance.
Smith's career took off after appearing on the cover of the March 1992 issue Playboy magazine wearing a low-cut evening gown. She secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the Guess? jeans ad campaign in a series of sultry black and white photographs. Guess? capitalized on Anna Nicole's strong resemblance to sex symbol Jayne Mansfield and even put her in Jayne inspired photo sessions. Smith then posed nude for Playboy as the May 1992 centerfold (under her given name). Tall, blonde, sexy and zaftig, Smith was subsequently called "the next Marilyn Monroe" in press reports, a comparison she encouraged by wearing a hair style reminiscent of Monroe's, as well as her trademark white dress. Smith was chosen to be the 1993 Playmate of the Year.
Her son played small roles in two of her movies - Skyscraper and To The Limit.
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