Anna Nicole Smith Dies After Collapsing

[Walter Cronkite]

CNN reports that Anna Nicole Smith died after collapsing at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Hollywood, Fla. After recieving CPR, she'd been rushed to a nearby hospital.

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.

Source: AP

[Ryan McBain]

Footage of the final moments of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's life has sparked a media bidding war, with estimates already topping $250,000, FOXNews.com has learned.

Paparazzi agency Splash News & Picture Agency is peddling the videotape, which shows paramedics working on the unresponsive reality star as she was wheeled from the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday afternoon.

Emergency responders appear to administer CPR on two separate occasions as the TrimSpa spokeswoman was wheeled out of the hotel on a gurney, according to FOX News Channel producer Christopher Spinder, who viewed the footage at Splash's headquarters in Los Angeles.

"At one point they kind of started to look like they were going to put the gurney onto the ambulance and they kind of pulled the gurney back out a little bit so they could do a second administering of CPR," Spinder said.

"You cannot see her face, you cannot see hair flowing out from underneath the mask," Spinder said. "Again if someone didn't tell me this was Anna Nicole Smith, I totally would not have known it. You can't even tell it's a woman."

The video shows footage of the ambulance driving away from the hotel under a police escort, then cuts to the ambulance at Memorial Regional Hospital just after 2 p.m. ET Thursday.

"You do not see the ambulance pull into the hospital, and you do not see the body come out of the back of the ambulance," Spinder said. "You just see the ambulance sitting there.

"One would assume that the cameraman got there after the body had already been unloaded from the ambulance and was already in the hospital at that point," he said.

Smith died at 2:45 p.m. at the age of 39. She is survived by a 4-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall.

Her companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is not visible in the photo.

The two-minute video, shot from three different angles from a distance of about 50 feet, shows Smith's sheet-covered body, with an oxygen mask over her face, being taken out of the Hard Rock Hotel by a gaggle of emergency responders, including paramedics and police.

[Sodomy]

rest in piss hooker!

[Dead AIM]

[Pyro]

Wow.....I mean...I've been hungering for it for years. And now it happens and I don't know what to say. I'm speechless. Well, first I'd like to thank the methamphetamines, for allowing her to live with herself when she was just a small time stable slut. I'd also like to think two horny old men that knew she could be the best trophy in the world, if only for just a few years.

I'd like to thank greed, for giving me a reason to hate her gold-digging ass. Tastee-Cakes and Hostess for allowing themselves to be constantly shoved down her gullet. Percidan, Hydrocodon, GHP, Oxycontin, and Methadone for allowing themselves to be constantly shoved into any open orafice she had available. I'd also like to thank Trim-Spa for taking her from fat, grotesque, borderline mentally ******ed, pathetic, waste of skin to a farkable grotesque, borderline mentally ******ed, pathetic waste of skin.

And finally, I'd like to thank the tabloids for providing enough doubt and anxiety to crush a thousand people's souls and channelling it towards one gluttonous Texas breeding cow that didn't do anything except get naked and get wasted. And let it be known, that on this sad day......I would still hit it.