Anna Nicole: The Mystery of Her Death
March 14, 2007
It's been almost five weeks since Anna Nicole passed away, and the cause of death has yet to be announced.
JUST IN: Sources tell ET that Bahamian police are at the Florida hotel where Anna Nicole died and are working with the Seminole P.D. on the case.
Sources tell ET that investigators for the Bahamian Royal Police Force and the Bahamian police chief are at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Florida where ANNA NICOLE SMITH passed away. They have reportedly been there for two days and are working with the Seminole police department on the case. Keep checking back for the latest developments...
Tonight on ET, Anna's close friend tells ET's JANN CARL her thoughts on Anna's death -- and what the coroner is doing in the case!
One of the last to see Anna Nicole alive, DR. KHRIS EROSHEVICH just met with the Broward County medical examiner, DR. JOSHUA PERPER, to help him shape his final assessment. It has been almost five weeks since Anna Nicole passed away, and Eroshevich says she believes that Perper will announce the cause of death soon.
"I would think if it's clear, he would have said so by now," she says. "I have a feeling it's going to be debatable, mysterious."
When asked if she brought anything to the meeting, Eroshevich acknowledges that she did, but says she was asked by Dr. Perper not to discuss it.
"My impression is that he was trying to be very thorough, trying to do a good job, and that this is a mystery even for Dr. Perper, as it is for me as a friend and a doctor," says Eroshevich. "He's looking for some truth; I think it's going to be elusive. I don't know that there's a perfect answer.
"He wanted to know what kind of person she was, what her habits were; he's trying to reconstruct her as a person at the time of her death," she continues, saying that he's trying to deduce whether or not Anna could have, in any way, taken her life.
"That wasn't my first thought," Eroshevich says, offering her own opinion on Anna's death. "My first thought was something terrible happened; some accident occurred; she's sick. I was thinking of ordinary causes of death -- I didn't think of suicide. However, many people in her position in life, mainly with the loss of a son, then an onslaught of attacks legally, how much can any person take? I think she was questioning that.
"I'd like something sweet and simple; something to tell [baby] DANNIELYNN," she says about the true cause of death. "Something to let her feel that her mom didn't want to leave her; her mom wanted to be with her and couldn't help it. That would be the best."
As for Dannielynn's future, a judge gave a two-week continuance in court yesterday in LARRY BIRKHEAD's battle to obtain a sample of her DNA. Birkhead, Anna's alleged former boyfriend, is requesting that Anna's partner, HOWARD K. STERN -- whose name is on the birth certificate -- travel to California to determine the paternity of Anna Nicole's child.
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