There are some mysteries that are finally being solved in the Anna Nicole Smith death but not the baby daddy drama.
After performing an autopsy, Dr. Joshua Perper, the Medical Examiner for Broward County, just announced the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate died of an accidental overdose of medications. She was taking many prescription drugs, including methadone, anti-anxiety drugs and other.
The pinup also had injected a drug into her left buttock days before her death. Dr. Perper announced when Anna Nicole flew to Miami before she died, she was complaining of pain in her left cheek. She developed chills as she went to the Hard Rock and developed a fever of 105 degrees. She refused to go to the hospital.
Dr. Perper says when his team went back and examined Anna Nicole, he found multiple injections in the left buttock and it appeared a needle perforated an abscess and caused the infection that led to a high fever.
Anna did not take methadone the day she died and Dr. Perper concluded it was a combined drug intoxication, including anxiety and depression medication, valium, ativan and antihistamine. She also had chloral hydrate, which was the major component in her death.
Dr. Perper says the injection that caused the buttock infection but that was not the cause of her death.
Anna Nicole Smith might have been alive if she had gone to the hospital for treatment.
Anna's medications were prescribed "by a number of doctors," according to Dr. Perper. It is unclear if each doctor knew what the others were prescribing.
Dr. Perper could not determine the precise time of death. She was alive at 10:00 a.m. and was unresponsive by 1:30 p.m.