Anna Nicole Smith has died!

[jaerdaph]

Thank you for proving my point: even in death, she continues to give the average Joe something to feel superior about.

Anna Nicole: Why We Cared

 

[bento]

Actually, no. And I'm as confused as you are.

And comparing her to Jane Mansfield is being extremely generous.

Well she certainly wasn't in the same league as Mamie van Doren! Now that woman could act!

 

[werk]

I feel terrible for her baby and anyone else that cared for her.

Spoiler

I'm really surprised the death of her son didn't scare her strait. When you take a bunch of uppers (antidepressants), then throw a big downer on there (her son was on prescription strength methadone...why?), it supresses and depresses everything. Didn't we learn anything in high school health class?

How long before the paternity suit is settled and Howard starts trying to get the fortune for him and Danielynn?

My wife is a reality junkie, so we watched all of her show on E! It really makes you feel like you know these people.

 

[BroccoliRage]

I never said I feel superior to her, or that she fills some hole in my heart left by said need. :/

I'm entirely indifferent to her. There's a difference.

 

[Umbran]

Ok I'll be the first to play the conspiracy angle up

I am pretty sure you aren't the first. I strongly suspect the police will be all over that if the autopsy reveals any irregularities.

I'm not concerned with Ms. Smith at all. The only reason I am interested is that there is an infant that's getting caught in the middlle of what happens next. No child deserves that.

 

[Torm]

Wow, that's kinda odd that this would be the first place you'd hear of it, but still, my condolences for this. Even a distant, off-beat cousin is still family.

Outside of my wife and kids, I'm really not very close to any of my blood family, in general. I'm honestly closer to my gaming group, and even some people I've met here on ENWorld, than to most of my blood. And even by those standards, she and I were not close. I saw her twice, maybe three times, at my grandma's house during holidays when I was growing up. Worth mentioning here, I guess, is that one of those times was the time one of my other cousins and I tried to run a D&D game for all the kids. None of the girls (not being sexist, just this particular group, yada yada) really seemed into it, though.

Her mom seems to think it was the drug abuse. If so, that makes the eighth of my cousins to have died or had a SERIOUS incident because of drugs that I am aware of. On just that side of the family. So it is unfortunate but not all that surprising.

I have to admit, though, that Shemeska's theory occurred to me, yesterday, as well - it sounds like there is enough money in play for that to be a real possibility.....

 

[Henry]

I have to admit, though, that Shemeska's theory occurred to me, yesterday, as well - it sounds like there is enough money in play for that to be a real possibility.....

I'm pretty sure that Howard K. Stearn is getting examined by the cops with a fine-toothed comb, as is the Pierce Marshall gent...

 

[werk]

Not to keep pushing in a negative direction, but...

"A personal nurse traveling with Ms. Smith called the hotel operator at 1:38 p.m. on Thursday to report she had found Ms. Smith alone and unconscious in her sixth-floor suite, the police said. Ms. Smith’s bodyguard arrived a few minutes later and tried to revive her with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as did paramedics, who arrived after 2 p.m., they said, but she was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital about an hour later."

OK, who travels with a personal nurse? Why would you? Especially a nurse that finds the client unconcious and calls the front desk at the hotel...and the bodyguard does CPR?

And why does this report from the NYTimes differ from all the reports I read yesterday?

 

[BOZ]

rich people have things like personal assistants, personal nurses, personal trainers, etc. the rest of us cain't afford that sort of thing.

 

[Heckler]

rich people have things like personal assistants, personal nurses, personal trainers, etc. the rest of us cain't afford that sort of thing.

But I think Werk's point is that if you had a personal nurse and bodyguard, wouldn't you want the CPR certified nurse performing CPR, not the bodyguard?