02-08-2007, 04:13 PM
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Anna Nicole Smith Dies
Anna Nicole Smith Dies
Feb 08 4:11 PM US/Eastern
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.
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02-08-2007, 04:16 PM
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Anna Nicole Smith is dead........ :(
Anna Nicole Smith Dies
Feb 08 4:11 PM US/Eastern
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.
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02-08-2007, 04:18 PM
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Crazy. Way too young to die.
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02-08-2007, 04:20 PM
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Drugs and depression are killers. Very unfortunate..
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02-08-2007, 04:27 PM
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Did Murph have her in his death pool?
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02-08-2007, 04:39 PM
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My money is on Stern.
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02-08-2007, 04:40 PM
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Wow. weird.
I wonder if she was on anything.
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02-08-2007, 04:43 PM
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nvm
Last edited by fluid.forty.one; 02-08-2007 at 04:53 PM.
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02-08-2007, 04:46 PM
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yes..but understable to a certain degree. She has been walking the earth in complete delirium for about 10 years now. She is probably at peace, something she never was here on earth.
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02-08-2007, 04:50 PM
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What a tragic family.
That little child she gave birth to. Man, my heart goes out to her.
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Last edited by u2sarajevo; 02-08-2007 at 04:50 PM.
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02-08-2007, 05:05 PM
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Not good for trimspa....
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02-08-2007, 05:41 PM
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I wonder if it was drugs, pills, the rapid weight fluctuations, Trimspa or something congenital
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02-08-2007, 05:54 PM
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Will her newborn daughter continue to have a claim (through ANS's estate) to the Marshall estate?
Follow the money, and keep your eye on the attorneys.
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02-08-2007, 05:59 PM
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Erika said "genital" *snicker*
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Last edited by Windmill360; 02-08-2007 at 05:59 PM.
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02-08-2007, 10:08 PM
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This is just so sudden. I was shocked to have read this. Dang! What's happening to the world now? It's like too many people are dying. Oh man! Im freaked out...
RIP Ms. Smith! There are no more problems for you now.
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02-09-2007, 09:22 AM
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Yeah, it really freaked me out a bit yesterday as well....
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02-10-2007, 03:32 PM
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I am Spartacus.
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02-10-2007, 03:33 PM
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^um wrong thread..
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