Daval

(CNN) -- Reality TV star and former model Anna Nicole Smith is dead, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Smith, 39, collapsed at a south Florida hotel and was taken to a local hospital, according to news reports.

TMZ.com reported that Smith collapsed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood just after 2 p.m. ET.

According to reports, Smith was found unresponsive in her hotel room.

Smith is currently involved in paternity suit regarding the parentage of her daughter, Danielynn, as well as other disputes, including ones regarding a house she stayed at in the Bahamas around the time she gave birth.

Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit against a company, TrimSpa, for which she has worked as a spokesperson. TrimSpa makes a product it claims leads to substantial weight loss. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading.

Smith's son, Daniel Wayne Smith, died at age 20 just days after the birth of Smith's daughter. Pathologist Cyril Wecht said a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants caused cardiac dysrhythmia, leading to his death.

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I can't believe this is on the front page of CNN, they actually broke into radio broadcasts here to bring it up. I don't really ever wish death on anyone, but this gives her child a chance at a normal life maybe now.

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Kadath

Whoa. That's a little out of left field. You think maybe TrimSpa had her bumped off?

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ShaniFaye

I was just reading that but it didnt say she was dead yet!!! Do you think her tombstone will read 'TRIMSPA BABY'

ok...so that wasnt nice....it will be interesting to find out the cause of death

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shoegirl

Also curious how she died. I'm sure more than just TrimSpa played a factor.

absorbentishe

Strange things have happened with her, and they keep getting stranger.

Daval

I wonder how the Marshall family is reaction. With cartwheels I would imagine.

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filtherton

She is now the official marylin monroe of our trashy generation.

maleficent

Anna Nicole Smith Dies
February 8, 2007)— One-time Mexia chicken restaurant waitress turned Playboy model turned heiress turned reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday afternoon after she was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., a law enforcement source told CNN.

The source told CNN Smith was dead on arrival at Memorial Regional Hospital.

The death comes a day after Smith and the diet company TrimSpa were targeted in a class-action lawsuit that alleges TrimSpa's marketing is false or misleading.

Among other things, the suit wants to stop Smith and TrimSpa from making claims that people who use the pills can lose a lot of weight.

Smith is a spokeswoman for TrimSpa.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission announced TrimSpa would pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that the diet-products company's weight-loss claims were unsubstantiated.

The suit was the latest in a series of woes for the former Mexia waitress.

Her son Daniel, whose father still lives in Mexia, died last year in her hospital room in the Bahamas shortly after she gave birth to a daughter.

Since then she had faced challenges to her residency and questions about the baby girl’s paternity.

She was still 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.

She won a $474 million judgment, which was later cut to about $89 million then to nothing.

The US Supreme Court ruled in May Smith could continue to pursue the inheritance in California courts.

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My bet - Suicide...

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hunnychile

...and sadly there's a six month old baby who will never know her mother. That's who I feel sorry for at this minute.

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Daval

I agree, the loss of a parent is tragic, but look at the mess her son was, he was in clinical depression and was on all kinds of drugs all due to his messed up life. Someone will take over care for this baby and hopefully it will be out of the publics eye forever and be raised into a normal, well adjusted person.

This is a blessing in disguise for the child in my opinion.

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Mister Coaster

Cause of death not yet known... Gee... Overdose maybe?

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spindles

Gossip magazine editors everywhere are crying - one main source of trash gossip is no more.

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KellyC

Is it alright if I masturbate to her naked pics still?

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Daoust

Holy crap. The haters. The lack of respect for the dead here is...well, lets face it... hilarious. Especially KellyC's comment

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Strange Famous

39... a pretty sorry end to a sad life.

All the people mocking her hours after she died... I suppose that can stand as an obitury of a kind, although I would judge it reflects more truly upon you than it does on her.

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Locobot

It almost seems like dropping a ton of weight using diet pills might be bad for you... Why was she staying with a private nurse?

Redjake

this spread around work today like wildfire

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ngdawg

I'm stunned, actually and agree with SF, a sorry ending and the mockery is unkind. I feel bad for the baby-now there'll be fighting over her.

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ShaniFaye

Im wondering whats going to happen if they find out that poor child doesnt belong to either of the mentioned men

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ngdawg

I believe Smith has several family members, cousins, siblings, etc...but that would be something else...
It's the headline right now on the cable news channels; the ME that oversaw her son's postmortem was just on explaining what would transpire with this-reports state she was running a fever and that, upon her collapse, anti-opiates were administered, giving rise to a speculation that she'd OD'd.
What is it with blonde bombshells and untimely death, anyway?

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ChrisJericho

I bet it was Jack Bauer.

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HeAtHeN

I guess so.... as long as she was still alive when they where taken.

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thespian86

I bet fiven Bauer too. GOD DAMN YOU BAUER!

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By Otto Z. Stern / The Register /10-02-07

Remembering Anna Nicole Smith and her impact on the American Dream

I once thought about spawning with Anna Nicole Smith. Offers were made. But, in the end, a $400m baby seemed like too much of a burden for such a simple man with such simple tastes. Decency - that's what I'm all about. That's what I preach - Tales of Lord Astor and other Great Valentine's Day Gifts, Julio Stantore

It was easy to look at Anna Nicole Smith's breasts and wonder what went wrong with America.

Her breasts, built on a silicon foundation, failed to represent anything good about this country. They shocked. They bragged. They overwhelmed. They popped up on a mediocre reality TV show. Who let that happen? Who willed those breasts into such a prominent position? Didn’t those mounds point to the type of shallow character haunting our country?

Well, no.

Anna Nicole Smith's chest defined the American Dream. It came from humble, small-town Texas roots. Through focus, optimism and well-placed investment, those breasts exceeded expectations. And, eventually, they attracted a billionaire - an oil tycoon, no less. These were overachieving breasts that went beyond their average beginnings. They helped create a franchise. They led to a mini-empire of Anna and symbolized much of the American tradition.

It may seem flippant to link thoughts of American Empire with inflated boobs. There is, however, something astonishing about anyone who can rise from being a Red Lobster waitress and Wal-Mart clerk to becoming a Guess model, wealthy widow and celebrity. It may not be what Horatio Alger envisioned, but he didn't know about implants.

The privileged, the hard workers, the average and the lazy all share this belief that America is currently the greatest country on the planet. Other nations have their admirable qualities, success stories and charming cultural elements, but they don't possess the raw power present here or our sense of assurance - an assurance that this Empire has never been stronger.

Only true pessimists would suggest that the traditional qualities associated with the American character have disappeared. Patriot Act or not, the populace enjoys incredible freedom. Hard work can help you "get ahead," and excessive rewards await that effort. Americans are still confident, casual, friendly and open. This beautiful land does create beautiful, creative people - the kind of people that don't mind trampling on tradition if it means unearthing something better.

It's only with a collapsed Soviet Union in the rear-view mirror and a slightly over-aggressive Homeland Security department that the American Empire and Anna's breasts appear obscene.

With nothing to compete against, Americans take on a decadent character. Where we once scraped and fought to justify our way of life, we now simply enjoy the spoils. Strong tenets of capitalism devolve into dotcom fantasies where money pours into undeserving pockets. Hard work and ambition are replaced by flight of fancy and corrupt capital and still there are shrubbery-filled suburbs, solid dishwashers and better breasts. The greatness continues but with a stench of shallowness hanging around it.

But the pansies who focus on such shallow decadence are, well, pansies.

We've done what we were supposed to and created an Empire of bounty and opportunity - an Empire that can't say "no" and that faces no serious foes.

Like Anna Nicole Smith's chest, we have reached our potential and then exceeded it. We have the biggest mounds, and they're wonderful to look at. Innovation, desire, capitalism and middle-class grandeur built these beautiful jugs.

Sure, they're gaudy and oppressive, but you certainly would not have described Anna Nicole Smith's bosom as an underdog. No, those breasts were unequalled, and they made us proud.

A pessimist would say Anna Nicole Smith's chest had nowhere to go but down. Enjoy them while you've got them because there's always a better, younger pair preparing to compete. But had Anna pushed on for just a few more years, you can be certain that a new scientific breakthrough would have occurred - something capable of keeping her ta-tas magnificent for years to come.

China can fluff around with its weak-chested lasses. We’ll go ahead and celebrate Anna and her audacious breasts. The Empire lives! ®

Otto Z. Stern is a director at The Institute of Technological Values - a think tank dedicated to a more moral digital age. He has closely monitored the IT industry's intersection with America's role as a world leader for thirty years. You can find Stern locked and loaded, corralling wounded iLemmings, talking, drinking and driving, reflecting on Anna Nicole Smith's American chest, suppressing Bill Gates U, developing strong Mexican engineers, corrupting his youth in Sadville, masticating beta culture, booing our soccer team, following Jimmy Wales, nursing an opal-plated prostate, spanking open source fly boys, Googling Bro-Magnon Man, wearing a smashing suit, watching Dead Man, dropping a SkyCar on the Googleplex, spitting on Frenchmen, and vomiting in fear with a life-sized cutout of Hilary Rosen at his solar-powered compound somewhere in the Great American Southwest.

Hanxter

dannielynn's father...

one player is stern
two player is birkhead
three player is zsa zsa's hubbie anhalt
four player is marshall - according to her half sister, anna froze his sperm
and now...
five player is me from jerkin' off on her playboy spread

Xazy

Poor baby, I mean think of the lawyer bills that kid will rack up. The odds of that kid having a normal childhood. Then again the odds will be worth millions too.

oneofmanymen

I just wonder if they can recycle silicone...

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ShaniFaye

That child may not have to worry now that its been revealed Anna never made a new will.....the will that exists leaves everything to a son that is now dead and no provisions for future children the way I understood what I read.

Wonder if any of them will drop out of the baby race now?

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