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Anna Nicole
treated for pneumonia
From
Jessica Robertson
NASSAU
(Bahamas)—Anna Nicole Smith has been hospitalised with pneumonia at the
same medical centre where her 20-year-old son died under mysterious
circumstances in September, an attorney for the reality TV star said
Tuesday.
Smith, whose son died while visiting her in the hospital three days
after she gave birth to daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was
being treated at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, attorney Wayne Munroe said.
“She has a slight case of pneumonia,” Munroe told The Associated Press.
“We’ve had a sudden change of weather here due to a cold snap.”
The attorney said the hospitalisation was most likely just a precaution
since Smith, 38, had recently given birth.
“I didn’t gather it was anything serious,” he said.
Munroe said Smith, who moved to the Bahamas during her pregnancy, has
filed a lawsuit as part of a dispute with a South Carolina developer
over the ownership of a waterfront mansion where she has been secluded
since her son’s death.
Smith’s ownership of the home, which her lawyer says she bought in July
for $900,000, is the basis of her claim to residency in the Bahamas. In
her lawsuit, Smith asks the court to recognize her purchase and reject a
claim by the developer, G. Ben Thompson.
Thompson did not immediately respond to a message left Tuesday seeking
comment.
Smith’s son, Daniel, died in her room at Doctors Hospital, the only
private medical centre in Nassau. A private examiner said the cause was
a lethal combination of methadone and antidepressants.
The results of official toxicology tests and a police investigation into
his death have not been released.
Dannielynn, almost 2 months old, is the subject of two paternity
lawsuits filed by Larry Birkhead, who claims he is the infant’s father.
Birkhead initially filed a lawsuit demanding Smith and the child come to
California to establish paternity through DNA tests. A hearing is set
for Nov. 8.
A second lawsuit was filed by Birkhead in the Bahamas last week alleging
Smith and her current companion, Howard K. Stern, had committed fraud
and conspiracy.
Meanwhile, Ron Rule, a lawyer for Smith, said allegations that
Dannielynn’s hair may have been dyed to make it appear that Stern is the
child’s father, were ridiculous. Stern appears to have naturally black
hair. Birkhead frosts the tips of his sandy blond hair.
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