Anna Nicole Smith is Dead!

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Anna Nicole Smith Dies
February 8th, 2007 @ 2:03pm

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - 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.

This is really weird... I know she had a drug problem in the past, but this seems just bizzare... You'd think she would have cleaned herself up for the sake of that baby. (Edit: I realize that I am only speculating that her death was drug-related)

She was born in 1967!! !! That makes her 2 years older than my husband (don't get excited Prof )

i just found out.

i didn't believe it at first. i didn't really know much about her since i don't watch E! or anything.

Didn't expect this... I wonder if it was drugs or something else?

Well, I'm not that surprised, really. There's no way she was ever going to live to a ripe old age.

This doesn't surprise me but I am sad for her infant daughter.

I'm sorry!

I didn't realize this has already been covered!

What sad news!

Anna marries a billionaire who then dies. Anna inherits lots of money. Anna has a baby. Anna's son, who would stand to inherit lots of that money, dies. (Possibly after Anna has the baby, I can't remember.) His death was rather suspicious, but turned out to be due to some antidepressants he was taking that became mixed. Yet it doesn't say it was a suicide. People don't usually just die of antidepressants being mixed, right? Now, Anna dies. She's 39 years old. I haven't seen the exact cause of her death reported anywhere. They were doing CPR on her, it says. She died at the hotel, not at the hospital. A heart attack or a stroke would be likely. But if her death turns out to be suspicious, someone better keep an (extra) eye on that baby, I think.

Apparently it was some sort of heart problem that killed her, which i think is what her son also died of, something to do with the heart, not too sure.

Who was Anna Nicole Smith?

She was a very, very sleazy model who had her own TV show on American cable television.

She had a son who passed away of unconsciousness who was only a few months older than I am (20) after seeing the birth of her infant daughter, who she had. Her daughter managed to survive through all this!

Very, very sad news!

from what i read, son died of methodone overdose, she died from i guess heart failure due to use of the drug trimspa (some dangerus diet pill)

No, that was unconsciousness!