RIP Anna Nicole Smith

[Jeffx]

Just saw this at CNN. She died shortly after collapsing in her hotel room. Sad story, and she just had a kid after losing her son. Damn

[dada]

Sad. Thats about all I can say without being disrespectful.

Anna Nicole Smith dead



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.

[JaoSming]

wow...

[RapsPlayoffs]

yeah i just found out yeah pretty sad i guess

[cyanide]

Was just about to make a thread on this, but yeah, that's really weird how she's dead all of a sudden.

[Ty-Land]

I'm a betting man, I'm putting my money on drug over dose?

[JaoSming]

that was my first thought

[RapsPlayoffs]

i thought howard stern killed her

[Sauru]

something fishy if going on, first her son and a few monthes later she dies? something is up with that

[Cable]

What the hell? That came out of nowhere ... RIP I guess.

[Laxation]

She knows she won't sink...

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RIP

[Mazzocchi]

I'll never look at her porn the same again

[nets4life]

RIP, a golddigger's idol

[---]

Man that came out of no where. RIP Anna

[Jing]

Ah yes, I was in line at the DC to return my tray when I saw the news on one of the flatscreens, and I was just like "Holy shit! She's dead?". It was a shock, though the only memory I have of her are those annoying losing weight commericals that were showed before movies.

Either way, RIP

[Matt]

One day your here, and then your gone.

[Oznogrd]

RIP even though alot of her actions make her one of the weirdest people on the planet...righty behind Ozzy and Jacko....but as a decent human..yeah...anyway....shit happens i guess

[[Q]]

it's a conspiracy. the son of her old billionaire ex husband was pissed so he sent hitmen to kill Anna's son and eventually Anna.

i'm kidding, but what if that was true? crazy shit.

[Riot]

Weird personality + hot body = Anna Nicole Smith

RIP

[scrub]

RIP
My bet is suicide.

[cyanide]

I'm a betting man, I'm putting my money on drug over dose?

My gf thinks she overdosed on anti-depressants by accident.

I think her death is generating as much news as John Amechi's coming out

[Patr1ck]

Concerning the 474 million dollars, I wouldn't rule out any type of foul play or murder. Her baby is now a living bank. Whoever gets custody, gets the bank. It seems easy enough to speculate that she overdosed on something, especially with her history with medication and her son's death.

[Jeffx]

Concerning the 474 million dollars, I wouldn't rule out any type of foul play or murder. Her baby is now a living bank. Whoever gets custody, gets the bank.

Hell yeah. You think her "Daddies" really care about that kid? Please. They're salivating over that loot like pigs at a trough.

[Sauru]

its the new lottery. whoever they calim to be legally her father is gonna be loaded, more so than they are now

[Jeffx]

So who gets buried first - Anna Nicole or James Brown? Damn, it's been nearly two months, and they haven't buried the Godfather of Soul yet.