Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centrefold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother – died yesterday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel had at least seven drugs in his system when he died on 10 September, according to toxicology reports.

The celebrated pathologist who Anna Nicole Smith hired to conduct a second autopsy on her tragic son Daniel's body has blasted the medic who prescribed the 20-year-old his killer cocktail of anti-depressants and painkillers.

Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a US-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said yesterday.

A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith today said he was the father of the reality TV star’s newborn girl, who has been the couple’s one “ray of hope” as they have grieved the death of her 20-year-old son in the Bahamas.