Anna Nicole Smith has died!

[Knightfall]

Sad.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250974,00.html?sPage=fnc.entertainment/smith

Anna Nicole Smith Is Dead, Her Lawyer Says
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Fox News

Reality star Anna Nicole Smith is dead, her lawyer told FOX News Thursday.

Smith was found unresponsive Thursday in her Hard Rock Hotel room in Hollywood, Fla., FOX affiliate WSVN is reporting.

Emergency responders performed CPR at the scene and a breathing apparatus was inserted in her throat, hotel officials told TMZ.com. Smith was immediately transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood just after 2 p.m. EST.

Local streets were closed off to rush Smith to the hospital, three miles away. Paramedics were seen pumping her chest as she was taken from the hotel.

Smith, 39, was hospitalized for a week last November with pneumonia. She was photographed at a boxing match at the Hard Rock Hotel last month.

In a lawsuit filed last Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Smith and TrimSpa Inc. were sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging their marketing of a weight-loss pill is false or misleading.

Smith, a former Playboy Playmate, has endorsed TrimSpa and is a spokeswoman.

Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel Smith died in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas in September, three days after she gave birth to a baby girl, later named Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

Smith's current boyfriend and longtime lawyer Howard K. Stern, 38, says he is the father of Dannielynn. But Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, 32, claims he's the father, and has sued to demand a paternity test.

Last month, a judge in the baby dispute temporarily blocked an order forcing her daughter to undergo paternity testing.

Ronald A. Rale, an attorney for Smith, questioned the legality of the test, saying Bahamian authorities needed to grant work permits before an American doctor could conduct the test.

The judge granted a stay pending a hearing which was supposed to take place this week.

Birkhead's attorney, Debra Opri, called Rale's request "a delay tactic." Birkhead sued in October to get a paternity test.

Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 27, 1968.

As a teenager, she worked at a fried chicken restaurant, and married Billy Smith at age 17 in 1985. The same year she had son Daniel Smith, but then divorced Billy and became a single mother in 1987.

Smith worked a string of minimum wage jobs before turning to stripping. She met oil mogul J. Howard Marshall II in 1991 in Houston at a nightclub, where he was a frequent patron and she worked as an exotic dancer.

Smith married Marshall, 63 years older than she, on June 27, 1994. She was 26, he was 89.

 

[rom90125]

Very sad but not unexpected. I hope medications and/or ephedra (sp) were not involved...

 

[Torm]

Holy crap!

Admittedly, she and I were far from close (distant cousin), but I have to say I never expected that ENWorld would be the first place I would hear about someone in my family dying!

I tend to think that drugs had little to nothing to do with it - chronic respiratory illness is unfortunately a common theme in my family. Then again, so is death from drug abuse, prescription and otherwise, so who the heck knows....

Note: I've noticed that this thread has fallen silent since I posted this. If these two things are related, please feel free to comment on Anna Nicole like you would had I not said anything. We really WERE NOT close, and I'm not going to take offense at anything (beyond what I would for ANYONE) - she DID make some very strange choices in her life. It's just a fact.

 

[Jdvn1]

Wow, she died young. And, I didn't know she was from Houston.

 

[bento]

I thought she was from Mexia, which is south and east of Dallas.

Sad day and kinda tragic. She's been through a lot these past five or so years with the courts, TV shows, family loss, etc.

 

[Mighty Halfling]

Updated story.

Sad. Really sad.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I'm just... shocked.

I opened up my CNN early this afternoon and... just... wow. She was so young... and her daughter is just 5 months old.

 

[jaerdaph]

... and her daughter is just 5 months old.

Yeah, that's the saddest part of this.

 

[Umbran]

Yeah, that's the saddest part of this.

I pray that the saddest part is not yet to come. There was aready a paternity question over the child. That is not going to become any more nice for the little one with an inheritance involved...

 

[BOZ]

exactly. that's really bad.

the crazy thing is, i heard the DJ mention her being dead on the radio, and i thought he was joking. then i saw it on CNN on the TV and knew it wasn't a joke. :\