Anna Nicole Smith’s Friend Speaks

To preface this information from Anna Nicole Smith’s close friend, I saw the coroner Anna hired to examine her son’s body. The coroner said he could find no evidence of anything other than a natural death, unless the toxicology tests that will be completed soon show anything to the contrary. The coroner also mentioned that the cause was most like a lethal arrhythmia as I said previously.

Patrik Simpson and fashion designer Pol Atteu told a source how their close friend Anna Nicole Smith is coping with the birth of her baby girl, the death of her son, Daniel, and the alleged father of her newborn child. "The first night that I got there, she was completely devastated," Patrik says. "She hugged me. I held her, she just cried and cried. Actually just cried herself to sleep in my arms." Patrik says that right now, Anna Nicole is taking care of her baby and that people are there with her to help her with everything through her devastating ordeal.

The friends say they last saw Daniel about three weeks ago and that he seemed healthy and happy. "He was always smiling, always happy, a happy-go-lucky kid." Patrik says. "She adored him. He adored her." "Daniel was very well-taken care of no matter where she was," Pol adds. "No matter what she had to do." They say Anna Nicole wanted a sister for Daniel, and that she chose who she wanted as the father. Photographer Larry Birkhead came to our source and said that he is the father, but her friends say they know different.

"She’s never once told us that he was [the father]," Pol says. "She told us in confidence … we respect that as friends, so if she decides she wants to tell anyone else, then that’s for her to be able to say." The same goes for the name of the baby girl, originally reported to our source as Hannah, but Pol and Patrik say that’s not the name they were told. "Maybe she was gonna," Pat says. "But made a change. When Anna’s ready to tell everyone the name of the baby, she will. I’m sure she’s gonna give the official name very soon."

As for Larry, he told a source, "I can only go by what Anna told me. We should end the ’he said/she said’ until the paternity test I’ve requested has been conducted." Daniel’s body is now at the Butler Funeral Home in the Bahamas awaiting transportation back to the United States. His death certificate was issued yesterday. The cause of death is listed as "unknown."