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"Hurricane Anna Nicole," as the cable called her, arrived on the islands in 2006, around the same time she found herself in the middle of a paternity suit that was messy enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Howard Stern (her demented lawyer, svengali, and alleged boyfriend) and Danny, her drug-addicted son, came along for Anna Nicole's wild ride. On September 7, 2006, she gave birth to a baby girl named Dannielynn, and three days later Danny died in the same hospital room where she was recovering from the birth. According to the leaked cable, the respected hospital "came under fire for its treatment" of Danny, but "the criticism of the hospital was nothing compared to the criticism of the Bahamas Coroner's Court." The court never determined a cause of death, but a US pathologist discovered a mix of drugs killed Danny. The US doctor's findings sparked "speculation that the government was protecting Anna Nicole from embarrassment by delaying its findings," the cable said.Several months into her Bahamian residency, American B-list celebrity and regular entertainment television fixture Anna Nicole Smith has changed the face of Bahamian politics. Not since Category 4 Hurricane Betsy made landfall in 1965 has one woman done as much damage in Nassau.
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