Byline: BChristian Dior WatchesARRY WIGMORE
THE ANNA Nicole Smith saga took another bizarre twist yesterday with the publication of pictures said to show her in bed with a Caribbean politician.
Miss Smith, wearing a swimming costume, was embracing Bahamas Immigration Minister Shane Gibson, said a local newspaper.
It was Mr Gibson who gave the former Playboy model a resident's permit for the millionaires' retreat last year. Opposition MPs yesterday accused him of giving her special treatment.
The Nassau Tribune published six pictures, claiming: 'Their mutual affection appears to be beyond doubt'.
One showed the minister with a Rolex watch she bought him 'to express gratitude'. The newspaper said the photographs were taken in 39-year-old Miss Smith's bedroom and that it obtained them from an unidentified source.
Mr Gibson was unavailable for comment last night.
The politician is known to have been a good friend of Miss Smith.
Immediately after her death last Thursday, his mother took care of her five-month-old daughter, Danielynn.
Last night Mr Gibson's political rivals demanded a review of how Miss Smith, facing bankruptcy and a barrage of lawsuits, obtained her resident's permit.
Her application was based on the assertion that she owned the [pounds sterling]500,000 mansion she shared with her lawyer fiance Howard K Stern. Miss Smith said a former boyfriend, U.S. property developer Ben Thompson, gave her the house.
But Mr Thompson, from South Carolina, says it was only loaned and he wants it back.
Miss Smith moved to the Bahamas last year to have her baby.
It meant Danielynn would be a Bahamian citizen, partially shielding Miss Smith and Mr Stern from a paternity battle in the U.S.
Celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead and Zsa Zsa Gabor's 69-year-old husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt both say they are the baby's father.
With Danielynn potentially the heiress to up to [pounds sterling]250million from the estate of her mother's late husband, octogenarian multimillionaire J Howard Marshall, there is plenty to fight for.
As legal wrangling continued another set of photographs also emerged, showing a small fridge in the house stocked with drugs.
They included the heroin substitute methadone, one of a cocktail of drugs which killed Miss Smith's son Daniel, 20, just three days after her baby was born.
There were also cans of the slimming supplement Slim-Fast - a slap in the face for the rival brand Trimspa, which Miss Smith advertised.
Officials in Florida, where Miss Smith died, are still awaiting the results of toxicology tests which could establish whether she also took a drugs overdose.
A post mortem examination was inconclusive.