Anna Nicole Smith - Official Cause of Death

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- A drug overdose killed former reality TV star and Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said Monday.

Tiger said there was no evidence of foul play and the overdose was accidental.

The medical examiner's office had said on March 7 that the cause of Smith's death had been determined, but it would not be announced for one to two weeks to give police time to finish the investigation.

Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper wanted to make sure none of the investigators' findings change any of his own findings, his office said then.

Tiger said Monday the case was now closed.

Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8 after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida.

A preliminary autopsy in February indicated that Smith did not appear to be a victim of foul play.

Smith was buried March 2 in the Bahamas after a court battle over who would have custody of her body and where she would be buried. She was buried next to her son, Daniel, 20, who died in September of what one pathologist said was a lethal combination of methadone and antidepressants.

Since her death, controversy has swirled over the identity of the father of Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and two other men have claimed paternity.

In 1994, Smith married 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II. He died the next year, and until her death, Smith was involved in a legal battle over the inheritance that included a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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I am so confused. How can an overdose be accidental?

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Well that's not shocking. Still wondering when they are going to determine paternity on her little girl. Don't understand why it's taking so long

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I don't really get the accidental part either. Wasn't there a nurse there? I question this nurse. She wasn't the one doing CPR, she sounds completely inept, and if she administered these drugs, wouldn't it be her fault???

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what drug?
who was giving her them?

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WOW...so glad they cleared things up.

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Posted by 5ofClubs

I am so confused. How can an overdose be accidental?

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Posted by 5ofClubs

I am so confused. How can an overdose be accidental?

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Posted by june262004

Posted by 5ofClubs

I am so confused. How can an overdose be accidental?

Are you serious?

Message edited 3/26/2007 1:55:38 PM.

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Posted by 5ofClubs

Posted by june262004

Posted by 5ofClubs

I am so confused. How can an overdose be accidental?

Are you serious?

Yes I am!!! How can you accidentally take too many pills, etc?

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I think howard stern killed her son and her by overdosing both of them. He prob thought he can win the new baby and then get the money with her.

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I read today's Post and the account of her death is pretty interesting:

A combination of 9 drugs were found in her system, including ativan, chloral hydrate, 2 types of valium, methadone, restoril, klonopin, benadryl. They also said she had needle marks on her arms, and an abscess on her buttock from injections with infected needles. She got prescriptions from different doctors and not all of the meds were in her name. No doctor in his/her right mind would prescribe all these drugs knowing she took all of them, and no nurse would administer all of these either. She injected herself with god knows what and created a lethal cocktail. What a sad story.