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Doctor: Anna Nicole Smith "Clung" to Son Daniel When He Died
Tuesday November 20, 2007

Anna Nicole and Daniel
Anna Nicole Smith and son Daniel at the 2nd Annual G-Phoria-Award Show for Gamers in Los Angeles, CA on July 31, 2004.
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As doctors frantically tried to revive Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel after he mysteriously collapsed in September 2006, the former Playboy playmate was distraught and would not let go of him, a doctor testified at a coroner's inquest Monday.

After a "Code Blue" alert was sounded, Anna Nicole joined medical personnel as they crowded into her room, where Daniel, 20, lay unconscious, not breathing and with no pulse, Dr. James Iferenta (who was on duty at the time) said, the Associated Press reports.

"There was difficulty getting her out of the room," Iferenta said of Anna Nicole. "She clung to Smith during my time in the room."

Iferenta and Howard K. Stern were among the first of about 35 witnesses expected to testify at the inquest to formally determine Daniel's cause of death. An initial autopsy found the likely cause to be a combination of drugs, including methadone and antidepressants.

Daniel Smith died about five months before Anna Nicole herself passed away.

Testimony is set to resume Tuesday.

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