Anna Nicole Smith collapses, dies at 39

[Luna]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -        Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

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The blond bombshell — who recently became tabloid fodder all over again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her 20-year-old son — was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.

Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.

[Tara]

I saw her on a interview last night...She was so out of it..I'm willing to bet that she died from drugs.

[Tara]

I just heard she was swimming when she passed out and the paramedics couldn't get her back.

The tabloids were blaming her lawyer for killing her son (this was the interview I was watching last night).

I'm gonna say they are going to blame him for both deaths. They he overdosed them to get the money.  The daughter will get everything she has ( I assume) So the real daddy will get it all.

The guy who says he's the daddy was also in the interview and I heard the taped conversation he and Anna had been having, she wasn't upset at him like the media put on, they were talking pretty chummy.

This will probably go on for awhile and there will be tons of accusations.

[Ms.Behavin]

you know what I think, I think she was sleeping around, got pregnant by only gawd knows who and Howard Stern was sticking up for her by saying it was his kid. I heard an episode of the radio d.j. Howard Stern and she apparently slept with one of the guys who works there. Watch when they do the paternity test, I bet my life on it that neither of them will be the father. I feel so sorry for the baby. My heart goes out to her. Yeah I saw that they were blaming Howard Stern for her sons death, I would not be surprised if her will leaves everything to him. He has always been really shady in my mind. I just hope the police do the investigating that needs to be done. And not some O.J. Simpson crap!

[~WickedAce~]

Well its very shady when someone removes pills from a dead mans pockets before the police take him away.... According to the Bahamas man (former boyfriend) of anna, Howard did that to Daniel when he had passed away to save him he said... This was on either Larry King or Nancy Grace about 2 weeks ago... I couldnt believe it when I saw that interview.   :ooo

[Tara]

Anna Nicole Smith's Mother Blames Drugs
By SUZETTE LABOY, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago



"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's late son)," her mother, Vergie Arthur, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday. "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."

That must of been the one I saw...and boy was she.


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 Friday. 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."

Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said an autopsy was under way Friday morning to try to determine the cause of death.

If Smith died of natural causes, the findings will likely be announced quickly, but definitive results could take weeks, said Dr. Joshua Perper, who was performing the autopsy.

"I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find," he said.

Smith's son's death in the Bahamas on Sept. 10 came just a few days after she gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn, whose custody remains in dispute.

The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion, who Rale said was with Smith at the hotel and was too choked up to talk when he called Rale with the news. Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.

A hearing was scheduled in Los Angeles on Friday at which lawyers were expected to discuss an emergency motion filed by Birkhead's attorney seeking DNA from Smith's body, her attorney Rale said. The reasons for the motion were not immediately clear, but an attorney for Stern, James T. Neavitt, was frustrated.

"There's no question about her being the mother," he said. "So what's the purpose of the DNA testing? Why do they need her DNA?"

Debra Opri, the attorney who filed Birkhead's paternity suit, said only that doctors told her to get a DNA sample, declining to elaborate.

She said Birkhead was devastated. "He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our No. 1 priority," she said.

The baby was being cared for in the Bahamas by the mother of Shane Gibson, the Bahamian immigration minister who is a close friend of Smith's, People magazine reported on its Web site, citing unidentified sources.

A visibly shaken Gibson declined comment as he was leaving his office Thursday night, and he has not responded to several message left by The Associated Press seeking comment.

Through the '90s and into the 21st century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona and her over-the-top revealing outfits.

Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. In recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.

"Undoubtedly it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel," said Michael Scott, a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas.

Rale said he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son. He dismissed claims her death was related to drugs as "a bunch of nonsense."

"Poor Anna Nicole," he said. "She's been the underdog. She's been besieged ... and she's been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she's endured."

The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at a strip club before she made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.

In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. After his death the following year, she engaged in a protracted legal fight with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to the estate.

A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.

The stepson died June 20 at age 67, but the family said the court fight would continue.

Smith starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 2002-04. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.

Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.

She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia, Texas.

She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.

[Luna]

Im leaning towards drugs as well.

[Gwenna]

I've hardly seen any interview with her when she wasn't bombed... And you know who else acts like that?  Paula Abdul.  Not the extreme Anna Nicole was, but bombed none the less. 

[vasunlover]

drugs are a good bet, I am beginning to wonder if it wasn't an intentional overdose-lotta crap on her since 1994, we all have our points.

[Mayhem]

This video appeared yesterday on The View just hours before Anna Nicole Smith was found dead.

http://www.break.com/index/rosie_makes_fun_of_anna_nicole_smith.html

[Spice]

There is more to this than meets the eye. It's one thing for this Howard what's his name to be present when Nicole's son died, but to be there with Nicole when she died makes a person go hmmmmmmmm. Don't know if anyone watches Enterainment Tonight, but they are doing a in-depth interview with Nicole. They even showed interviews with the witness's at the hospital when her son died, and they all say they saw this Howard guy flush pills down the toilet. Which he flatly denies....Anyway it will all come out eventually. Nicole will more than likey be dragged thru the mud, and what will be left is that the daughter of her's will be left with the legacy of her mother. As far as who the father is.....DNA testing needs to be done for the sake of the little girl. And since the judge denied the test today, the daughter should be placed in the care of her grandma until this is settled, but that's just me.

[Luna]

I dont really understand why the courts wont do a DNA test on Anna Nicole Smith. That would end the battle very quickly I would think. Im starting to question why it's not being allowed. Was someone paid to keep it hushed hushed?

[Tara]

The top news story now is Zsa Zsa Gabors husband is admitting he's had an affair with Anna for a decade and he could be the dad.

Here's the whole article

http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2007/02/09/583089.html&cvqh=itn_gabor

Here's the first few paragraphs

Gabor Husband May Be Smith's Baby's Dad
By Associated Press
2 hours ago



LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father.

The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

[Tara]

I got this from TMZ....I don't know how true it is, but it says DNA was taken.

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/09/coroners-press-conference-reveals-little/

Police: No Illegal Drugs Found in Anna's Room
Posted Feb 9th 2007 3:34PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith

Only prescription -- and not illegal drugs -- were found during an investigation of Anna Nicole Smith's room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, this according to Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger.

At a press conference outside the Broward County Medical Examiner's office, Tiger revealed that "No evidence has been revealed to suggest that a crime has occurred," and that sworn statements were taken from everyone involved.

While authorities were unable to identify an official cause of death, Broward County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper suggested that the death might be due to either natural causes, medication, or a combination of natural causes and medication.

Perper was able to rule out several speculated causes of death, such as blunt force trauma, gunshot wounds or asphyxia, meaning she did not suffocate to death on her own vomit.

Perper revealed that a small amount of blood was found in Anna's stomach, which he says is a result of the terminal shock Smith experienced before she died. He also said that no pills or tablets were found in her stomach.

Perper also acknowledged the need for Anna's DNA (due to the ongoing paternity dispute) and said a "large sample" was taken.According to Perper, an official cause of death would be determined in 3 to 5 weeks.

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[Luna]

Another man now claiming he might be the baby's daddy...
LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead.

[Izamin]

i thought she was already dead  :o

[CindyLouWho]

its all such a shame, & that innocent baby will be at the center of the news, everything now for the rest of her life probably.  but worse of all is she lost her brother & mother both & will never know em.  0:

[Homer]

It's a shame for the child.

I would be surprised if more people don't stake a claim to the child now.

[Monkey]

She sure got around well  :ll

[CindyLouWho]

lol  yea guys be coming out of the woodwork now saying they could be that babys father.