Bahamian and Florida police have met this week (ends16MAR07)to discuss Anna Nicole Smith's death sparking rumour that it has become a homicide investigation.But it has been reported that muder allegations have risen and that crucial information had been seized from a laptop belonging to the wife of the stars bodyguard. But the police insist that they are not investigating a homocide. On Feb 8 of this year the former Playboy model was found dead in her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida aged 39. The Broward County State Attorney's spokesman RON ISHOY says, "We are continuing to help law enforcement agencies and the medical examiner as they try and figure out the nature of this death. This is not a homicide investigation." Broward County's chief medical examiner DR. JOSHUA PERPER was scheduled to announce Smith's cause of death last week (ends09MAR07), but delayed revealing his findings after new evidence was given to him by the Seminole tribal police. Perper announced on Wednesday (14MAR07) that he wasn't aware of any criminal probe into the model's passing, but he hoped to release his findings next week (begs19MAR07).Smith was buried next to her son Daniel, who died in September, (06) in the Bahamas on 2 March (07). Anna Nicole is propably best known for her highly publicised marriage to oil tycoon billionaire J. Howard Marshall a man 63 years her senior. After his death she had a lengthy court battle with her step son over her husbands will.

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