Anna Nicole Smith Dies At 39

Anna Nicole Smith
Feb. 8, 2007
(CBS/AP) Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marriage to an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a 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 Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.

Charlie Tiger of the Seminole police said at a news conference that a private female nurse discovered Smith's body at the hotel and that a bodyguard administered CPR at 1:45 p.m.

Tiger said police received confirmation of her death at 2:49 p.m., and that the cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner.

"She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow," said Danielle Giordano, a spokeswoman for the hotel.





The past year has been a turbulent one for Smith. She was facing a paternity suit filed by her ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, who claimed to be the father of her infant daughter, Dannielynn. The baby was born on Sept. 7 in the Bahamas, days before her son Daniel, 20, died suddenly of a drug overdose.

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 the sudden death last year of her 20-year-old son.

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 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.

Marshall 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 last May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case. The justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with her case, despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall was the estate's sole heir.

The stepson then died in June at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.

In the following years, Smith had her own reality show, "The Anna Nicole Smith" show on the E! cable network.

Daniel Smith died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter. A medical examiner hired by the family said he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died.

Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute.

Smith 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 they divorced two years later.

PAMELA ANDERSON DIVORCED - TO SEEK REFUGE IN CHILE

PAMELA ANDERSON DIVORCE FINALIZED, TO SEEK REFUGE IN CHILE

(February 6, 2007) Canadian-American actress Pamela Anderson may be planning to seek refuge in Chile after her divorce from redneck rocker Kid Rock was finalized this week. After a hush trip to the country’s southern lakes region last month, Chile’s local media reported Tuesday that the blond bombshell and former Baywatch babe purchased a one acre property in Huerquehue Park on which she plans to construct a summer house.

The property, part of the Santa María de Carburgua condominium resort, is close to the beautiful, and elite, Caburgua, a resort town near the southern city of Temuco. Nearly 800 kilometers south of Chile’s capital city, Santiago, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has a house on the nearby lake, as does her recent presidential rival and millionaire businessman Sebastián Piñera.

Anderson, who shot to fame in the 1990’s as a Playboy playmate, Baywatch star, and “unauthorized” sex-tape vixen, made the trip to the southern cone country with her father, Barry Anderson.

“They came about a month ago,” said Hugo Solís, a local driver who drove Barry Anderson to the town center of Caburgua. “She (Pamela) didn’t want to leave the resort where they were staying. Her father seemed like a very educated, friendly person, and no one here imagined that they had so much money. I felt bad that I didn’t get to see Pam though, which, like any other man, would have made me very happy,” he concluded.

Local authorities said that the Andersons had turned down police escorts and that their principle goal was to go unnoticed, find a suitable place to relax and carry out their business.

“They were not here for very long,” said the local police chief. “The father went fishing for a bit and that’s the only time I saw him.

While Pamela’s father was seen around town, the A-list star known for B-list endeavors was not spotted publicly and spent her time reading and enjoying the countryside.

Alfonso Sarabia, a Caburgua local who for 16 years has transported high profile people on his boat, The Titanic, said that the town was very happy for their new neighbor. “The father first passed himself as an ordinary tourist, but when we found out who he was, we felt very happy that they had decided to come and buy a house in this part of the world,” he said. “Imagine that we will all be “Pamilita’s” neighbors! All of Chile will envy us.”

Sarabia told Chile’s Las Ultimas Noticias tabloid that he had helped Pamela onto his boat. “She’s precious, but simple, just like any other woman,” he added.

Sarabia said that Anderson was just one of many famous people to grace The Titanic with their presence. “The other day President Michelle Bachelet was on the boat transporting material to fix up her house here. Piñera has been on the boat several times too,” he said. “I can’t tell you all the names of the people that ride my boat. I remember a lot of gringo actors and singers, but I prefer the Chilean artists…I also like the Frei family members (referring to the family of two former Chilean presidents).”

While Anderson’s new digs were dubbed in Chile’s press as “exclusive,” a similar one-acre lot can be had for as little as US$50,000 according to an executive at Río Baker Investments, the company in-charge of the project. The executive added that they had offices in California and boasted many other exclusive clients.

Chile’s south, known for its beauty as well as its isolation, is frequently visited by many international celebrities who seek to escape the limelight by traveling to the end of the world. Visitors to Chile’s south can head to the famed town of Pucón, visit thermal spas and beaches, climb volcanoes, ski, and visit the Patagonia.

A US mag has revealed that Britney Spears might be gay.

Is Britney gay?



In Touch Weekly claims Britney has been secretly having sex with women long before her split from Hubby Kevin Federline in November.

Rap music producer Omar "Iceman" Sharif, a friend of K Fed, revealed:

"Britney was into threesomes and girls."

An unnamed insider, close to the couple while they were married the insider, backed up this story, saying:

"I heard about her being with girls at least 20 times while they were married."

Another friend told the mag that Kevin planned to use tales of her hard partying and sexual activity in the couple’s custody battle.

"She has told Kevin more than once that she is sexually attracted to women and men equally," they said. "He wants to show that she's not such an angel after all."

We just hope Brit gets judged on whether or not she's a good mum, and not her sexual orientation.