The images are featured in the new issue of In Touch magazine, on stands Wednesday. The celebrity magazine’s executive editor, Dan Wakeford, says he was involved in securing the photos from Getty Images, which declined to identify the photographer. Getty photo service confirms that a portion of the profits from the sale of the images will go to a charitable foundation to be set up in Daniel’s name.
In Touch paid about $400,000 for exclusive print rights; Entertainment Tonight and The Insider purchased the television rights for an undisclosed sum.
“We purchased the photos, beating the competition,” Wakeford says. “The photos were extremely emotive, and our readers are incredibly intrigued by this story.”
The images show a “perfectly healthy young man,” Wakeford says.
Daniel had been taking antidepressants, according to a pathologist hired by Smith. Family friend David Giancola, who worked with Anna and Daniel on the unreleased film Illegal Aliens, tells In Touch: “There’s a long history of heart problems on the male side of the family. He had lost about 28 pounds and had a constant stomachache.”
The magazine spoke with Smith’s local Bahamian attorney, Michael Scott, who says that after arriving in Nassau, Daniel had been attentive to his baby sister and mother, who, Scott says, “was still in a lot of pain from her C-section.”
After finding her son’s body, Smith was “so distraught, she refused to leave his side,” Scott says.
By: William Keck, USA TODAY
