Nassau, Bahamas – Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son said they had no evidence that he had suffered a heart attack or that drugs were involved.
The cause of death remained under investigation Tuesday.
The Nassau Guardian, citing unidentified sources, reported Monday that Daniel Wayne Smith had died of a heart attack. On Tuesday, the newspaper reported that a preliminary investigation found that Smith had antidepressants in his system. It cited sources close to the case.
Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, dismissed the reports.
“That’s just talk. We have no evidence at this time to suggest that,” he told The Associated Press when asked whether drugs had contributed to Smith’s death.
Earlier, the commissioner told People magazine that there was no evidence “at this time” that the young man had suffered a heart attack.
Smith died Sunday while visiting his celebrity mother in the hospital three days after she gave birth to a girl.
Police said they were investigating the death as they would any other in the Caribbean country, and they were waiting for a pathologist’s report to determine the cause.
It was unclear whether a coroner had completed the autopsy and whether police would release the results.
“If the family requests that the information not be given out, then … I imagine we would do as they ask,” Ferguson said.
Smith was the product of his mother’s 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987. The son had small roles in her movies “Skyscraper” and “To the Limit.”
