Anna Nicole and the MP who gave her Bahamas permit
The Anna Nicole Smith saga took another bizarre twist yesterday with the publication of pictures said to show her in bed with a Caribbean politician.
Miss Smith, wearing a swimming costume, was embracing Bahamas Immigration Minister Shane Gibson, said a local newspaper.
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It was Mr Gibson who gave the former Playboy model a resident's permit for the millionaires' retreat last year. Opposition MPs yesterday accused him of giving her special treatment.
The Nassau Tribune published six pictures, claiming: "Their mutual affection appears to be beyond doubt".
TV reports in the U.S., meanwhile, said 39-year-old Miss Smith's death last Thursday may have been caused by a cocktail of painkillers and other drugs she was taking after having two breast operation since the birth of her daughter Danielynn last September.
One was said to have been a breast augmentation, the second a repair procedure. Miss Smith was said to have been left "very tired, very weak".
There was also speculation that she died from an adverse reaction to the surgery. A post-mortem last week was inconclusive and officials in Florida, where she died, are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.
Danielynn was born in the Bahamas after Mr Gibson allowed Miss Smith to move there even though she was facing bankruptcy and a barrage of lawsuits.
The politician was known to have been a close friend of Miss Smith - immediately after her death, his mother took care of Danielynn.
One of the Nassau Tribune pictures showed Mr Gibson with a Rolex watch Miss Smith bought "to express gratitude". The paper said the photographs were taken in her bedroom and that it obtained them from an unidentified source.
Pictures also emerged of a small fridge in the house, stocked with drugs including the heroin substitute methadone.
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Mr Gibson was unavailable for comment last night, but political rivals demanded a review of how Miss Smith obtained her resident's permit.
Her application was based on the claim that she owned the £500,000 mansion she shared with her lawyer fiance Howard K Stern.
Miss Smith said a former boyfriend, U.S. property developer Ben Thompson, gave her the house. But Mr Thompson, from South Carolina, says it was only loaned and he wants it back.
Moving to the Caribbean meant Danielynn could be a Bahamian citizen, partially shielding Miss Smith and Mr Stern from a paternity battle in the U.S.
Celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead and Zsa Zsa Gabor's 69-year-old husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, both say they are the baby's father.
With Danielynn potentially the heiress to up to £250 million from the estate of her mother's late husband, octogenarian multi-millionaire J Howard Marshall, there is plenty to fight for.
