Did Anna Nicole Smith really pass away today?

Question

and they are pulling Trim Spa off the shelves...

Answer 1

Yes! If you go to Cnn.com it reports she collapse and then pronounce dead after being taken to a florida hospital.

Answer 2

don't know -- this is the first I've heard of it -- just googled -- CNN is reporting that Anna Nicole Smith has died after she reportedly collapsed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino about 2 p.m.

The flamboyant starlet was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital after the incident. Local police were reportedly forced to shut down the streets to expedite her transport. -- just heard it on the radio as I was typing this .. so it must be true -- how sad --

Fire crews and emergency personnel performed CPR on Smith, putting a tube down her throat, Access Hollywood reported.

Answer 3

Yes, a news conference is about to be held at the hospital in Hollywood, Florida. She collapsed at around 2 pm in the hard rock hotel.

Answer 4

i just saw a news report confirming the passing of Nicole Smith,i feel for her daughter,i hope the legal side of this particular wrangle is sorted quickly

Answer 5

The Miami Herald said she collapsed at the Hard Rock Casino at about 2pm today, and died shortly after.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16654459.htm

Answer 6

i am truly shocked! there is small consolation that she may be with her son now, she mourned him so deeply. i understand society's impulse to attack, but i believe that we should forgive all misdeeds of life in death. she just has not been "herself" since daniel died. she always had a media strength and exuberance that shined through everything. it seemed that something significant within her died with him. i hope she is at peace. my deepest sympathies go out to mr. stern and danilynn. it was clear through the recent interviews that he cared deeply for her with all of his efforts (however futile) to protect her in the recent media blitz over her children and personal tragedies.

goodbye anna nicole, and god speed.

Answer 7

TMZ.com and CNN are reporting that. Apparently her attorney Ron Rail made a statement.

P.S. Sir Nigel, don't be a horse's rearhind. How can you be so callous about someone dying?

Answer 8

No where did you hear that......................Actually I just checked CNN and it said that she collasped in her hotel and later passed. How sad for her daughter. No mother, no brother, unsure of her father. Bless the poor child and her family

Answer 9

Yes, I just got breaking news alerts from MSNBC and WSB-TV.

Answer 10

Yes

Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapsing in Florida
Updated 2/8/2007 4:55 PM ET E-mail | Save | Print | Subscribe to stories like this


Enlarge By Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

Anna Nicole Smith, 39, died after collapsing in a Florida hotel.




From staff and wire reports
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Anna Nicole Smith, the exotic-dancer-turned-Playboy-model-turned-tycoon's-wife, died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel in Hollywood, Fla.
Smith, 39, was unresponsive and was rushed to a hospital Thursday while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, hotel officials said.

"She was obviously in distress," said hotel president Michael Bloom.

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"I don't know what the cause was," Ron Rale, one of Smith's lawyers, told MSNBC. "This is just tragic and that's all you can say right now."

Smith checked into the hotel Monday evening and was due to check out Friday, said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino.

Officials said her baby was not with her, but she was accompanied by her husband and four others, including a nurse, Bloom said.

Seminole, Fla. Police Chief Charlie Tiger told reporters that Smith's personal nurse found Smith unconscious in her room at 1:39 p.m. ET. Police were called at 1:45 p.m. "for a person needing medical assistance," Tiger said.

When police arrived, they found Smith, who was being given CPR by her bodyguard, he said.

Five minutes later hotel security and emergency medical technicians responded to her room and contacted local fire and rescue teams.

Smith was taken to the hospital shortly after 2:10 p.m. She died at the hospital, Tiger said.

Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death is under investigation and an autopsy will be done on Friday.

Smith had been hospitalized for pneumonia for a week in November and was recently sued, along with diet supplement company TrimSpa in a class-action lawsuit alleging the company's marketing of a weight-loss pill was false or misleading.

Her daughter, Dannielynn, is subject of an ongoing DNA test battle with Smith's former boyfriend. Smith's late son, Daniel, died of a drug overdose last September.

"I am very, very sad, but I am not shocked," Smith's former publicist, David Granoff, told MSNBC. He said he had seen Smith on television Wednesday "and she had no spark any more."

"I had it in the back of my mind that something like this was going to happen," he said.

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.