Anna Nicole Smith with son Daniel.
Investigators suspect a drug overdose may have killed ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son after an autopsy showed he did not die from "natural causes" or a heart attack, the coroner said yesterday.
Daniel Smith died on Sunday in his 38-year-old mother's maternity ward hospital room in Nassau, Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a baby girl.
"We have a cause of death, but I am reserving it pending complete toxicology reports. We have to be sure," Bahamian coroner Linda Virgil told the Daily News. Test results are expected tomorrow.
"It was not natural causes. Heart attack was ruled out," Virgil said.
She refused to confirm a report in yesterday's Nassau Guardian newspaper that "various medications, along with drugs, were found in his system."
The toxicology tests she is awaiting are used to determine levels of drugs, alcohol or poisons in the body.
Anna Nicole Smith had credited her son with helping her get clean when she became addicted to painkillers a few years ago.
But her half-sister Donna Hogan says the buxom model's party-girl ways may have corrupted her son.
"It was really hard to have her as a mother. ... She was known to be wild and he was around that his whole life," Hogan told the TV show "Inside Edition."
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