Anna Nicole's Mom In Bahamas
Anna Nicole Smith's mother is in the Bahamas to check on the welfare of her granddaughter, a police official in the island chain said Friday.
Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner for the Royal Bahamas Police Force, said Vergie Arthur believes her 5-month-old granddaughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is in Nassau but he could not confirm her whereabouts.
"I don't know what her expectations were, but I had to advise her to seek legal counsel to find out what course of action she can take," Ferguson told The Associated Press after a brief meeting with Arthur at his office.
Earlier Friday, Arthur blamed drugs for her daughter's sudden death at just 39 years old.
"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's late son)," Arthur, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday. "I tried to warn her about drugs and the people she hung around with. She didn't listen.
"She was too drugged up."
Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, said the one-time reality TV star had been ill for several days with a fever and was still depressed over the death five months earlier of her 20-year-old son from what a private medical examiner determined was a combination of methadone and two antidepressants.
On Thursday, authorities say, a private nurse found Smith unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and called 911. A bodyguard performed CPR, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said, but Smith was declared dead at a hospital.Attorney: Stern Has Custody Of Anna's Baby
Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be conducted.
Recently, Smith lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. In some of her TV appearances over the years, her speech was slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.