Post by Free Agent Fan on Feb 8, 2007 16:30:58 GMT -5
From the Los Angeles Times
Anna Nicole Smith has died, news reports say
By Michael Muskal
Published February 8, 2007, 3:22 PM CST
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model and reality television star, collapsed in her hotel room in Florida, was rushed to a hospital and has died, various media reported.
Smith, 39, was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., according to CNN and CBS television reports.
Anna Nicole Smith | 1967-2007
CNN reported that Smith had collapsed at a casino and CPR was performed at the scene.
It was the latest shocker in the life of the woman born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston on Nov. 28, 1967.
There were no secrets in the life of the former waitress who married great wealth, gained great weight, and let it all hang out on reality television.
Smith's son, Daniel, died last year in her hospital room in the Bahamas shortly after she gave birth to a daughter. She has been embroiled in legal fights over her child's paternity.
She was also locked in a legal fight over the estate of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89.
Marshall died the following year.
Smith ended up in a long-running battle with Marshall's son Pierce over her late husband's estate. He later died.
She won a $474-million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million, then to nothing.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in May that Smith could continue to pursue the inheritance in California courts.
michael.muskal@latimes.com
Anna Nicole Smith has died, news reports say
By Michael Muskal
Published February 8, 2007, 3:22 PM CST
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model and reality television star, collapsed in her hotel room in Florida, was rushed to a hospital and has died, various media reported.
Smith, 39, was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., according to CNN and CBS television reports.
Anna Nicole Smith | 1967-2007
CNN reported that Smith had collapsed at a casino and CPR was performed at the scene.
It was the latest shocker in the life of the woman born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston on Nov. 28, 1967.
There were no secrets in the life of the former waitress who married great wealth, gained great weight, and let it all hang out on reality television.
Smith's son, Daniel, died last year in her hospital room in the Bahamas shortly after she gave birth to a daughter. She has been embroiled in legal fights over her child's paternity.
She was also locked in a legal fight over the estate of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89.
Marshall died the following year.
Smith ended up in a long-running battle with Marshall's son Pierce over her late husband's estate. He later died.
She won a $474-million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million, then to nothing.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in May that Smith could continue to pursue the inheritance in California courts.
michael.muskal@latimes.com
