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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) ― Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son said Tuesday that they had no evidence that he had suffered a heart attack or that drugs were involved.

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

A hospital official said medical personnel applied CPR and other measures to try to save the young man.

"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 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.

Police said they were waiting for a pathologist's report to determine the cause of death.

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

The Nassau Guardian, citing unidentified sources, reported Monday that Daniel Wayne 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.

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.

Earlier, the commissioner told People magazine that there was no evidence "at this time" that the young man had suffered a heart attack.

It was unclear whether a coroner had completed the 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.

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 repatriation to California.

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 the funeral home.

When Daniel Smith was born in 1986, his mother was married to Billy Smith. The couple, who met while working together at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Texas, married in 1985 and divorced in 1987. The son had small roles in her movies "Skyscraper" and "To the Limit."

The identity of the newborn girl's father has not been publicly disclosed.

Anna Nicole 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 he died in June at age 67.

Smith won a $474 million judgment, which was 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 her claim in federal courts in California, despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir.

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