An inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel started this week, and boy-howdy, it’s disturbing. So far, 32 witnesses testified in front of a Bahamian  jury in an effort to discover what killed the seemingly healthy 20 year old.

Anna Nicole’s former boyfriend G. Ben Thompson testified yesterday, and claimed Anna Nicole’s companion Howard K. Stern took photos of Daniel after he collapsed in her hospital room.

G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer, testified that Stern took about four pictures of Daniel Smith’s body after he died Sept. 10, 2006, while visiting his celebrity mother three days after she gave birth to her daughter in a Bahamian hospital.

Stern said the photographs “might be worth some money one day,” according to Thompson, who was embroiled in an ownership dispute with Stern over the Nassau mansion where he lived with Anna Nicole before her Feb. 8 death of a prescription drug overdose.

“I was totally shocked he was taking pictures of a dead child laying in that bed,” Thompson testified at the inquest into the death while being questioned by an attorney for Anna Nicole’s long-estranged mother, Virgie Arthur.

Stern’s attorney Shaka Serville said that Stern, who is the executor of Anna Nicole’s estate, took the photographs of the young man’s body to prove to her that Daniel was indeed dead. Witnesses have said she was highly distraught after his collapse.

Thompson’s son Gayther Thompson also testified Wednesday, and alleged he saw Howard flush two white pills that he had found in Daniel’s clothes after his collapse.

The inquest is expected to go on through the next few months.

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