Anna Nicole Smith’s friends and family awaited the release of her body today, as they planned for starlet’s funeral in the Bahamas after weeks of legal wrangling over her remains.

A grief-stricken Anna Nicole Smith threw herself over her son’s body last fall as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, “If Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him,” her boyfriend testified at a hearing on where the former centrefold should be laid to rest.

Prescription drugs were found in former Playboy Anna Nicole Smith’s hotel room, but there were no pills in her stomach, investigators said tonight.

PRESCRIPTION drugs were found in Anna Nicole Smith’s hotel room, but there were no pills in her stomach, and investigators said last night they are awaiting tests that would tell whether or not the former centrefold died of an overdose, as some close to her suspect.

The cause of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith’s death remained a mystery tonight despite an autopsy.

A jogger in the US was killed by an alligator which ripped her arms off before dragging her body into a canal.