Pneumonia killed Anna Nicole Smith?

Pneumonia killed Anna Nicole Smith, claims the National Enquirer..

Preliminary findings reveal that tests performed during the autopsy show Anna Nicole had a severe case of pneumonia, the National Enquirer reports. Prescription drugs that she had taken made the condition worse and did play a role in her death. The full toxicology report has not yet been completed.

Sources very close to the death investigation told The ENQUIRER that the prescription drugs masked the seriousness of her pneumonia. Anna Nicole had previously been hospitalized for pneumonia in the Bahamas after her son died.

This time, the painkillers Anna Nicole was taking masked her symptoms and quickened the deadly effects of the pneumonia.

Meanwhile, Anna Nicole Smith is to be buried in the Bahamas on Friday (02.03.07) after
her mother dropped her appeal for custody of her body.

Virgie Arthur will not challenge the decision made by a Florida appeal court
that custody of the model's remains should go to Richard Milstein, the
court-appointed guardian of her five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Milstein said Anna Nicole will be buried in the Bahamas next to her son
Daniel, who died last September.

Last week, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin awarded custody of Smith's body to Richard Milstein.

Arthur appealed that ruling, because Milstein wants the former Playboy playmate buried in the Bahamas and Arthur wants her daughter buried in Texas with other family members.

Milstein intends to have Smith buried next to her son, Daniel. The late model purchased the adjacent Bahamas burial plot after Daniel, 20, died in September, three days after Dannielynn's birth.

Howard K. Stern, Smith's partner and attorney who claims to be the biological father of Dannielynn, also wishes to have Smith buried in the Bahamas.

Virgie's attorney Tom Pirtle said: "It's going to be difficult to appeal the
ruling, so we're not going to appeal."

Arthur, met her granddaughter for the first time on Tuesday night, Feb. 27. According to Entertainment Tonight, Virgie saw baby Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern for a 20 minute visit in the Bahamas around 8 p.m. at the home Anna shared with Howard K. Stern.

Any appeal of the decision by the panel of Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal would go to the Florida Supreme Court.

Milstein said: "The funeral is set for Friday. I wish to uphold the decorum
and dignity that should be maintained throughout this process, for the sake
of Dannielynn and the memories she will have of her mother's funeral."
Anna Nicole died aged 39 on February 8.

Her body has remained in cold storage at a Florida morgue during the court
battle over where she is to be buried.
Joshua Perper, Broward County medical examiner, told reporters Smith's body probably will not be removed Wednesday from his office, where it has been stored during the legal battles, because he has not received a phone call to that effect. He expects embalmers from a funeral home to come to view the body and prepare it for shipping.

In other news, Prince Frederic von Anhalt’s is telling Star Magazine about how HOWARD K. STERN SOLD ANNA NICOLE FOR SEX. Anhalt says his phone would ring in the middle of the night and his friend and former lover, Anna Nicole Smith, would be on the other end of the line. “She would call me late, at like 2 am, when she couldn’t sleep and was upset or depressed,� the prince exclusively told Star. And what makes the already depressing picture of Anna’s life with attorney/companion Howard K. Stern look even seedier are von Anhalt’s wild claims that during these conversations, Anna told him that Stern often “pressured her to have sex with men that she didn’t want to have sex with!� Stern would insist and say that it was good for business and good for the future. Stern only cared about business and what he could profit from. He claims that Anna told him that “Howard sold her body for favors!�

And finally, John Travolta says Scientology could have saved Anna Nicole Smith.
The actor insists the late Playboy Playmate may still be alive if she had
checked into the controversial Scientology drug and detox programme
Narconon.
John, who worked with Anna Nicole on 'Be Cool', said: "It's so sad. We could
have helped her with Narconon but didn't get the chance to. I wish we had."
Narconon has been widely criticized for its unorthodox methods which are
inspired by the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
The treatment includes taking large doses of vitamins, an intensive running
programme, and long sauna sessions which "run out" drugs and "radiation"
from the body.
Scientologists insist Narconon is 85 per cent effective, but it has been
alleged the method has been used to convert vulnerable drug addicts to the
bizarre sci-fi cult.