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Anna Nicole Smith dead THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 8, 2007, 4:05 PM EST
Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.
Smith, 39, collapsed and was unresponsive while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, said the attorney, Ron Rale. She was rushed to a hospital.
"She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow," said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for the hotel.
Smith had been a tabloid staple even before she became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. Readers were fascinated by her bombshell good looks, her marriage to an elderly billionaire and subsequent court fight over his estate, her weight fluctuations, and last year, the sudden death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith.
A former topless dancer, she made her name squeezing into Guess jeans. She resembled the late actress Marilyn Monroe, a similarity played up in her Guess magazine ads, billboards and department store displays.
In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune worth at least $400 million.
He died in 1995, setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to his estate.
A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million in a complicated legal twist that began after she declared bankruptcy. That was later overturned.
But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her former stepson.
The justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with her case despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall was the sole heir to the estate.
Then, the stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.
Daniel Smith died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.
An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. Low levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, Wecht said.
Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute.
She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children of Donald Eugene and Virgie Hart Hogan.
She married Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.
All right, to me. It isn't always shocking when someone relatively young dies. When someone is both unintelligent and uninclined to take care of themselves, they're not exactly stacking the cards for a long and fitful life.
Yes to you.. and I'm not going to argue with you...
..but I really REALLY liked her. No one knows what she was going through. She was obviously very ill, in many ways. Doesn't mean it was right that she died.
I can only imagine that losing a son would be gutting. Losing someone can really effect different people in different ways and if that means that she got more fucked on drugs them so be it. Yes it was her own fault (if that was the cause of death) but Some people don't understand that loss I guess, until it happens to them. God forbid. I lost both my grandma and grandad in the same year. My grandma pass first, the pain and loss of that hurt my grandad more then anyone can imagine and that then lead to his death months later. All I know is that If I had a child that died. (No matter what the cause of death is) It would probably kill me too.
You dont think her lifestyle contributed to her sons death? I'm thinking it was probably extremely hard to grow up well adjusted when your mum is an extreme exhibitionist.
I think she wanted something so bad that in the end it caught up with her, in exactly the same way as it did with Paula Yates. The real sad thing is that theres an infant that wont have its mother there to look after it.
wrote ... HOLLYWOOD, Fla. ? A medical examiner began an autopsy today on Anna Nicole Smith, whose mother blamed drugs for the former Playboy playmate's sudden death that ended an extraordinary tabloid life at just 39.
"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's late son)," her mother, Vergie Arthur, told ABC's "Good Morning America" today. "I tried to warn her about drugs and the people that she hung around with. She didn't listen.''
"She was too drugged up," Arthur said. "By the last interview I saw of her, she was so wasted.''
Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, said the one-time reality TV star had been ill for several days with a fever and was still depressed over the death five months ago of her 20-year-old son from what a private medical examiner determined was a combination of methadone and two antidepressants.
On Thursday, authorities say, a private nurse found Smith unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and called 911. A bodyguard performed CPR, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said, but Smith was declared dead at a hospital.
Late Thursday, sheriff's deputies carried out at least eight brown paper bags sealed with red evidence tape from Smith's hotel room.
Several detectives are reviewing the hotel surveillance tapes to see if they might provide a clue to what happened, Deputy Police Chief Michael Browne said today. He said they had interviewed everyone connected to the death and no one was under suspicion.
"Nothing about this death seems suspicious. We're not treating it that way," Browne said. "We're being very thorough. We're going to look at everything.''
I think she was perhaps knocked off ... (However, it'll LOOK like drugs and/or alcohol)
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I don't think I need to tell you what my vote is.
I might feel the slightest hint of sympathy for her if it was a clear-cut suicide, but it doesn't seem to me that she was distraught so much as simply fulfilling the only possible conclusion to her life of stupidity.
Now the TV news really needs to stop covering this for 8 hours a day and get back to lying to me about important world events.
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I think someone did something to her I really do. I dotn really like anna Nicole that much but that is fucked up that she died. Its a shame she couldnt have gotten her life together...but then again Like Hayley said of all the shit going on like the new birth of her child and her son dying that owuld make me all loony and crazy as well.
I can't see myself taking to heart any accusations of ignorance. She lived recklessly, so her death doesn't surprise me. Yes, she was grief-stricken lately and death is sad. What point are you trying to make?
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Well, here's a whole lot of NOTHING posted just 40 minutes ago ...
wrote ... Several people close to Anna Nicole Smith were quick to speculate after her death that drugs were to blame. The medical examiner who performed an autopsy on her body, though, said it could take weeks to determine a cause of death.
Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner who did the autopsy, said Friday that no illegal drugs were discovered in the 39-year-old Smith's room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood after she collapsed there on Thursday.
Perper said there were prescription drugs in the room but would not identify which. He said it could take three to five weeks to conclude his investigation, which will include toxicology tests.
CNN quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying there were large amounts of prescription drugs, including Valium and antibiotics, as well as over-the-counter cold and flu medication taken from Smith's room.
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"WiseMasterYoda" wrote ... Now the TV news really needs to stop covering this for 8 hours a day and get back to lying to me about important world events.
