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Anna Nicole Smith dead
Feb 9, 2007, 12:20 GMT
Anna Nicole Smith in Hollywood, February 14, 2005. Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned Playboy Playmate who fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over her billionaire husband\'s estate, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 39. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Anna Nicole Smith has died.
The 39-year-old former Playboy model was pronounced dead in Florida's Memorial Regional Hospital at around 2.45pm yesterday (08.02.07).
Anna Nicole was rushed to hospital after a private nurse found her unconscious in her room at Hollywood's Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Hotel president Michael Brown said Anna Nicole was "not breathing and unresponsive" when paramedics arrived.
US TV show Access Hollywood claim Anna Nicole choked on her own vomit and was found under a sheet by one of her employees. They also allege Anna Nicole had taken a "child's sedative" and kept "passing out" before her death.
Anna Nicole's lawyer Ronald Rale said her lover Howard K Stern had been left shocked by her sudden death.
Rale said: "I can confirm that she is deceased. It's as shocking to me as to you guys. I don't know anything further. Howard obviously is speechless and grieving.
"Anna did have some flu symptoms. I believe the last couple of days she was not feeling well."
Police said the cause of death was unknown and have scheduled an autopsy for today (09.02.07).
Anna Nicole's death came during a time of personal grief and a bitter paternity battle.
Her 20-year-old son Daniel, died in the Bahamas five months ago - just three days after Anna Nicole gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn. Toxicology reports determined Daniel had taken a lethal combination of antidepressants and methadone.
Anna Nicole was ordered to have her daughter undergo a paternity test, after former lover photographer Larry Birkheard filed a lawsuit claiming he was Dannielynn's father.
Anna Nicole insisted Stern, who was also her lawyer, was the father of the child.
The actress-and-model was ordered to complete the test before February 21 by a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday (07.02.07).
Dannielynn was not with her mother when she died. She is in the Bahamas - where she was born - in the care of a family friend.
Anna Nicole was born Vickie Lynn Hogan and raised in Texas by her mother and aunt.
After dropping out of high school aged 17, she met her first husband Billy Smith, but later split from him and moved to Houston to become a stripper. It was here that she met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall.
Anna Nicole, 26, married Marshall, 89, in 1994, before he died the following year. She spent the next decade battling his family for his estate.
In May 2006 the US Supreme Court ruled Anna Nicole could pursue her case in federal court.
The blonde got her big break in 1991 when Playboy boss Hugh Hefner personally chose her to appear on the cover of the magazine.
She was named Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1993 and appeared in 'The Hudsucker Proxy' and 'Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'.
She also had her own outrageous reality TV series 'The Anna Nicole Smith show' from 2002 to 2004.
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After almost forty years of modern feminism, some things never change. External 'beauty', no responsibility, no brains, no character, and still a belief that men should provide. Disgusting...all of it!
What a slut, didn't even know who fathered her daughter. I won't be suprised if the love-child's father was responsible for her son's overdose and is somehow tied to her death. Money will make people do strange things, like going down on geezers for double digit millions...
Keep your eyes open for the scratch'n'sniff sticker peeled from the bottom of her pool!
cheah i knew that was comin.
omgggg I AM SOOO SOO OSOOOOOO SORRY ANNA.. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE THOSE METHODONES DIDNT YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON OF YOUR SONS DEATH?? STUPID CHOICE!! WELL WE STILL LOVE YOUU ANNA GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND OUR LIL 1 DANIEYLNN R.I.P. ANNA I'LL SEE YOU UP THERE 1DAY!!! GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY
WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR BABY~WE PROMISE!!
How sad it is that this poor woman was never truly happy despite her fortune.
This should teach all Americans a little something. Its quality of life that's important, not quantity. She allowed her life to be exploited and was the butt of many jokes, but she was only human.
this is so tragic. how profoundly sad it is that anna nicole is so harshly judged. who among us could've REALLY done better had we walked in her shoes? i live in texas not too far from mexia. it is insane that she became the superstar that she was from where she came from. the cards were stacked against her from the beginning, and who can TRULY say that they could've handled her life any differently or better than she? whatever the cause of her death may turn out to be, the reality is that a beautiful, amazing, misunderstood, woman is dead. and now her poor daughter is facing a life never knowing her mother or brother, and will be fought over...for what??? money???
i liked anna nicole, regardless of her circumstances at various points in her life. i may not have understood her choices but i liked her, and mourn her passing.
Come on people, I'm in no way defending the actions of anything that Anna has ever done. But, the girl is dead. Lets at least show a little respect even if it is'nt deserved.
I agree. Let him who has no sin cast the first stone...
May you rest in peace with your son, with hopes the angels embraces you with wifr open arms of love. God Bless
Yes, everyone deserves respect. She wouldn't have been the celebrity that she was if it weren't for the public.......think about it!!! She apparently wasn't the smartest girl in the world, but so many people exploited that for their own benefit!!!!
Anna may god bless you and your son. May god give Howard the strength to take care of your daughter. And I pray that Howard can keep your mother away from your daughter as you had wanted. RIP
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EltonFeb 9th, 2007 - 13:05:25
Like a flamethrower in the tornado...
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