Anna Nicole Smith’s partner, Howard K. Stern, was not with the former Playboy playmate when she died, but he knew she was very sick, his sister says. Stern had told his sister that Smith was running a fever of 105 degrees shortly before her death on Thursday, and that a nurse was "icing her down" earlier that day at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. "When he left her, she was sleeping," Bonnie Stern said. He had been gone only about two hours when news reached him that Smith was dead, she said. A private nurse had called 911 after finding the former model unresponsive. Bonnie Stern, who recently traveled from her Beverly Hills home to the Bahamas to comfort her brother, said that he had tried to get Smith to visit a doctor but Smith had refused because she was afraid that it would draw publicity. "They had plans to get a yacht and to buy an engagement ring. They were going to get married Feb. 27. It was going to be a real marriage," she said. Asked what she thought caused Smith’s death, Bonnie Stern said: "Her immunity was so low. She was so depressed. She kept getting sick and her body just probably broke down." Smith had never recovered from the loss of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who died in the Bahamas in September while visiting his mother and newborn half-sister at a hospital, friends said. Smith had met Stern in 1996 when she was referred to his law firm, Bonnie Stern said. "He started doing her legal work and then he became her confidant. They became best friends and then he fell in love with her," she said. Stern, 38, is listed on a birth certificate as the father of Smith’s baby girl. He said in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight" that he is the executor of a will drafted for Smith that will leave everything to the little girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
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Maybe it is me, but if someone has a fever of 105 you take them to a hospital and not just have a nurse ice them down. And if he loved her so much, why did he leave her to buy a yacht? Why didn’t remain by her side? Things that make you go hmmm
