Smith's Pathology Report Pending

Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son dismissed media reports that he had suffered a heart attack or that drugs were involved, saying they were waiting for a pathologist's report to determine the cause of death.

"We have got to give them time to do their job professionally and properly. I wait for them," said Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force, on Tuesday.

The 38-year-old reality TV star and former Playboy playmate found her son, Daniel, unresponsive Sunday morning in a chair in her Bahamas hospital room, where she was recuperating from giving birth to a baby girl, and called for help, according to police.

The head of the Bahamas hospital where Anna Nicole Smith's son died says medical personnel applied CPR and other lifesaving measures to Smith for 22 minutes before he was pronounced dead.

"Resuscitative efforts using advanced life-support protocol continued for 22 minutes without response," Barry Rassin, president and CEO of Doctors Hospital in Nassau, said at a news conference.

Daniel Wayne Smith had arrived at the hospital late Saturday to visit his mother, and Rassin said hospital employees saw him "attending to his mother's comfort" during the night.

Dr. Hubert Minnis, obstetrician for Anna Nicole Smith, said she had an "uneventful" Caesarean section at the private hospital on Thursday.

"Both mother and baby are presently doing well," Minnis said at the press conference. Alex Goen, CEO of Trimspa, the diet products company that has been endorsed by Smith, told CNN's Larry King that he had spoken to the Anna Nicole Smith on the phone for about an hour and said she was so emotional that it was hard to understand the conversation.

The Nassau Guardian, citing unidentified sources, reported Monday that Daniel Smith had died of a heart attack. On Tuesday, the newspaper reported that a preliminary investigation found that Smith had antidepressants in his system. That report cited sources close to the case.

But Ferguson dismissed the reports. "That's just talk. We have no evidence at this time to suggest that," he told The Associated Press when asked whether drugs had contributed to Smith's death.

It was unclear whether a coroner had completed an autopsy, or whether police would release the results.

"If the family requests that the information not be given out, then certainly I imagine we would do as they ask," Ferguson said.

Smith's remains are to be returned from the Bahamas to his home in California.

Butler's Funeral Homes & Crematoriums, hired by the family, said Tuesday it expected to receive Smith's body after the autopsy is completed and would then submit paperwork for its return to the United States.

The body was identified at the morgue Monday by Smith's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, who is also handling arrangements with the funeral home, said Loretta Butler-Turner of Butler's Funeral Homes & Crematoriums.

"Once the hospital has released the remains to our establishment, we are then able to process all of the documents for repatriation to California," said Butler-Turner.

A statement posted on her Web site said, "Anna Nicole is absolutely devastated by the loss of her son. He was her pride and joy and an amazing human being."

"Please do not make any press inquiries at this time so that Anna Nicole can grieve in peace," the statement said, adding that drugs or alcohol were not believed to be a factor.

The son arrived Saturday night in the Bahamas and apparently went directly to the hospital, where he spent the night in his mother's room, Ferguson said.

"It would appear from our report that the mother had gotten up, saw him in the chair and he appeared to be sound asleep," he said. "She tried to wake him up, he was unresponsive and she sounded the alarm."

Medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Ferguson said.

The Web site's statement said that Anna Nicole, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital last Thursday, and that David Smith had traveled to the Caribbean country "to share in the joy of his baby sister."

He was the product of Anna Nicole's 1985 marriage to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, divorced in 1987.

The son had small roles in her movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit" and also appeared in his mother's reality show, "The Anna Nicole Show," which aired on E!

Robin Bonnema, a spokeswoman for Trimspa, said she did not know the name of the baby girl's father.

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year.

She then feuded with Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, over her entitlement to the tycoon's estate before the younger Marshall died in June at the age of 67.

In the long-running dispute, Smith had won a $474 million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million and eventually reduced to zero. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Smith could continue to pursue the fortune in federal courts in California despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir.

In June, Smith confirmed in a video on her Web site that she was expecting a child. "I've been hearing a lot of gossip in the papers. Is Anna pregnant? She's pregnant by some guy," Smith said in the video where she is seen floating on a raft in a pool. She did not mention the name of the baby's father.