Oddly, a third person was also sleeping in Anna Nicole's hospital room on the night Daniel arrived. In the bed next to his mother's, Howard K. Stern had taken up 'residency' and hospital staff reported that Stern had occupied the extra bed in Anna's room since she had arrived to give birth to her baby. Throughout the night, the three adults remained in the hospital room together except for a few trips that Stern made to supposedly run errands for the new mother. According to nurses, sometime after midnight Stern asked for directions to a nearby restaurant claiming he needed to get some fried chicken for Anna Nicole and her son. However, when he returned to the hospital room later, no one at the hospital could recall if Stern had been carrying any take-out food.

Anna shone in the spotlight of fame.
Daniel chose to hide in the shadows.
Daniel and his mother were known to be exceptionally close and it was not surprising that this young man wanted to be near Anna Nicole to keep her company. For several years, Anna Nicole Smith had been on an up and down roller coaster emotionally and financially. She seemed to be out of control and rumors of her drug abuse were common knowledge. In the swirl of multiple media frenzies, she'd come to rely heavily on the support of her only child. For most of his life, Daniel had been inseparable from his famous mother. Unlike Anna Nicole who loved being in the spotlight, Daniel Smith worked hard to stay in the shadows of his famous mom. Known to be a quiet and shy young man, Daniel only reluctantly made short appearances on Anna Nicole's reality television series and was attending college classes, hoping for a career out of the glare of the paparazzi's flashing cameras.

Despite the fact that his mother was addicted to prescription medications, Daniel Smith was reportedly afraid to take even an aspirin. Daniel's aversion to medications made it all the more suspicious when he was found dead just 11 hours after arriving in the Bahamas, his lifeless body slumped in the chair in his mother’s hospital room. Toxicology reports would later show that the young man had died from an overdose of what appeared to be a combination of powerful prescription medications including the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro, as well as a high dose of methadone (enough to kill a person eight times over). The tests indicated that a drug overdose had caused cardiac dysrhythmia and death. More...