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.

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.