Anna Nicole Smith Dies (merged)

[CHS_CG]

(CNN) -- Reality TV star and former model Anna Nicole Smith was pronounced dead Thursday after being taken to a Florida hospital after being found unconscious in her hotel room, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case told CNN.

Smith, 39, collapsed at a south Florida hotel and was taken to a local hospital, according to news reports.

TMZ.com had reported that Smith collapsed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood just after 2 p.m. ET.

According to reports, Smith was found unresponsive in her hotel room.

Smith was involved in a paternity suit regarding the parentage of her daughter, Danielynn, as well as other disputes, including ones regarding a house she stayed at in the Bahamas around the time she gave birth.

Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit against a company, TrimSpa, for which she has worked as a spokesperson. TrimSpa makes a product it claims leads to substantial weight loss. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading.

Smith's son, Daniel Wayne Smith, died at age 20 just days after the birth of Smith's daughter. Pathologist Cyril Wecht said a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants caused cardiac dysrhythmia, leading to his death.

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Breaking News

[Buccaneer]

Anna Nicole Smith is dead after being found in her motel room and
rushed to a Florida hospital.

[CHS_CG]

ROFLMAO I JUST POSTED THE SAME THING

[pirate4state]

:eek: :eek: whoa.....

[stangGirl2007]

:doh:

[CHS_CG]

Originally posted by stangGirl2007
WOW!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

MY EXACT WORDS!

[44INAROW]

wow - the paternity results of the baby are REALLY going to be intesting now............

[Fotbol]

Isn't she from Mexia?

[stangGirl2007]

No one in my class believed what I was saying until I opend CNN. com. Now they are all in shock!:eek:

[NDFootball]

:eek: wow that's unexpected

[Phil C]

That is sad news. :(

[mistanice]

Yeah she lived in Mexia. My roommate's dad used to eat at a Fried Chicken joint there in Mexia (Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken) where she used to work growing up.

[burnet44]

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Anna Nicole Smith dies

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - 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.

[theyoefnshow]

*yawn* not surprised. next story. tho if anyone had to go, I would have rather it been Lindsay Lohan.

[eagles_victory]

Originally posted by mistanice
Yeah she lived in Mexia. My roommate's dad used to eat at a Fried Chicken joint there in Mexia (Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken) where she used to work growing up. thats some damn good chicken if you ever go through there

[BuffyMars]

It really shocked me too!

I wonder if its gonna be ruled a suicide...:thinking:

I feel bad for the newborn baby...:crying:

[coach]

Originally posted by Fotbol
Isn't she from Mexia?

yep.......i had a friend who wwent to high school with her and he said one year he went christmas carroling so they decided to go to her house and sing to her so when they knocked on the door she and her "partner" opened the door wrapped in bed sheets together and thats all they were wearing lol the funny thing is my friend is a preacher and couldn't believe his eyes lol

[Fotbol]

overdose?????????

[Who-dun-it!!?]

darn

[kaorder1999]

wow...with her son passing away and her baby a newborn...who is going to get her fortune? Is Howard Stern still her husband? Wonder if their was a prenup....

[Txbroadcaster]

Originally posted by kaorder1999
wow...with her son passing away and her baby a newborn...who is going to get her fortune? Is Howard Stern still her husband? Wonder if their was a prenup....


Howard Stern??

[kaorder1999]

yeah...Howard Stern...they got married last year i believe...its her lawyer

[kaorder1999]

maybe they were just engaged...hell..i dont know

[spiveyrat]

Originally posted by Txbroadcaster
Howard Stern??

Not THAT Howard Stern. ;)

[Emerson1]

Oh Dee

[Gp83]

Originally posted by theyoefnshow
*yawn* not surprised. next story. tho if anyone had to go, I would have rather it been Lindsay Lohan.
Nice to see such class:rolleyes:

[turbostud]

Now everyone will get to see her final footage.

Link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251000,00.html)

[burnet44]

great
good job by the media

"dirty laundry"

[theyoefnshow]

Originally posted by Gp83
Nice to see such class:rolleyes:

Not what I was aiming for pardna! :p

[lepfan]

Originally posted by kaorder1999
wow...with her son passing away and her baby a newborn...who is going to get her fortune? Is Howard Stern still her husband? Wonder if their was a prenup.... I watched an interview with her mother a month or so ago...she had great concern that her daughter would end up dead. She made the comment that HS had something to do with Daniel's death and that she was concerned that Anna Nicole would be "killed" soon. She said it was because of the $$$$$, the baby would be in line to inherit any of her money she was to get and that would mean the daddy of the baby would be in control. ???? on whether there is any truth in all that...but that was her concerns. Makes ya think....hmmmmmmmmmmmm.