Daniel Wayne Smith
| Daniel Wayne Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 22, 1986 Mexia, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | September 10, 2006 (aged 20) Nassau, Bahamas |
| Parent(s) |
Billy Wayne Smith Anna Nicole Smith |
| Relatives | Dannielynn Birkhead (half-sister) |
Daniel Wayne Smith (January 22, 1986 – September 10, 2006) was the son of the American model and actress Anna Nicole and Billy Wayne Smith. He occasionally appeared in his mother's E! Network reality TV show.
Smith was born in Mexia, Texas, to Billy Wayne Smith and Vickie Lynn Hogan (later known as Anna Nicole Smith). After his parents separated in 1987, Daniel was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Virgie Mae Arthur, until he was six years old. He spent his childhood in a variety of different private schools. He was the stepson of J. Howard Marshall II, whom his mother met at a strip club and married in 1994.
At age 16, Smith was featured as himself on his mother's reality television series, The Anna Nicole Show, which ran on the E! Entertainment Television channel from 2002 to 2004. The show's makeup artist remembered him as "a shy, sweet kid" and that his mother often worried that the camera crews were upsetting him. He was always shown in the opening credits, but his actual appearances were minimal. In a second-season episode he would mention that he no longer wanted to be part of the show. He was also seen with his mother in E! True Hollywood Story. Daniel played bit parts in two of his mother's films, Skyscraper and To the Limit. Described by Anna as a straight-A honor student, he had last been attending classes at Los Angeles Valley College in the summer of 2006.
Smith died in his mother's hospital room while visiting her at the maternity ward in Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, on September 10, 2006, just three days after she had given birth to his half-sister, Dannielynn Hope Marshall.Cyril Wecht, an American forensic pathologist, stated Daniel Smith accidentally overdosed on methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro. On an episode of True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, and at the Daniel Smith's inquest Larry Birkhead stated that security in the house indicated that Smith had stolen his mother's methadone.
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