RIP: Anna Nicole Smith

[Boxlicker101]

I just heard on the television that Anna Nicole Smith has collapsed and died in Hollywood, FL. This is a shame. I have always been fond of her, ever since I saw her in Playboy over ten years ago. I thought she was one of the sexiest women around, with the kind of lush curves that I think a woman needs to be truly described as sexy. Readers of Playboy agreed with my opinion, and she was PMOY that year.

I even wrote a celeb story about her.

 

[CharleyH]

I just heard on the television that Anna Nicole Smith has collapsed and died in Hollywood, FL. This is a shame. I have always been fond of her, ever since I saw her in Playboy over ten years ago. I thought she was one of the sexiest women around, with the kind of lush curves that I think a woman needs to be truly described as sexy. Readers of Playboy agreed with my opinion, and she was PMOY that year.

I even wrote a celeb story about her.

It's a shame when anyone dies - yet perhaps time is time? I think us here for reasons and, perhaps her life was fulfilled.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

It's a shame when anyone dies - yet perhaps time is time? I think us here for reasons and, perhaps her life was fulfilled.

can't know the big picture I guess...

 

[vampiredust]

I just heard on the television that Anna Nicole Smith has collapsed and died in Hollywood, FL. This is a shame. I have always been fond of her, ever since I saw her in Playboy over ten years ago. I thought she was one of the sexiest women around, with the kind of lush curves that I think a woman needs to be truly described as sexy. Readers of Playboy agreed with my opinion, and she was PMOY that year.

I even wrote a celeb story about her.

that is sad news

 

[CharleyH]

can't know the big picture I guess...

But perhaps her life was whole and fulfilled.

(dunno if she died, yet, but I do believe we die when our time here has become rounded)

 

[Selena_Kitt]

But perhaps her life was whole and fulfilled.

(dunno if she died, yet, but I do believe we die when our time here has become rounded)

I imagine that's true... although it still makes me sad... 39!?

My friend was 36 and she died in November... it just makes you wonder about that concept... what were they here to do and how can it possibly be done?

But I do agree with you... part of me does, anyway.

 

[R. Richard]

Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapsing

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - 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.

 

[CharleyH]

I imagine that's true... although it still makes me sad... 39!?

My friend was 36 and she died in November... it just makes you wonder about that concept... what were they here to do and how can it possibly be done?

But I do agree with you... part of me does, anyway.

Easy - people effect and affect. Every life makes you think and every death makes you think more.

 

[minsue]

 

[starrkers]

Oh no. What's going to happen to her baby now?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Oh no. What's going to happen to her baby now?

I know

Poor baby...

 

[neonlyte]

Wow... 39 is no age, not even for one living in the fast lane.

 

[SimonBrooke]

I imagine that's true... although it still makes me sad... 39!?

My little sister was 39 when she died. Not fun for her mother or her daughter.

 

[scriptordelecto]

Sad..... My heart goes out to her husband and little daughter. I agree that we go when it's time. It's not for the dead that we grieve, but for those left behind....

 

[Selena_Kitt]

My little sister was 39 when she died. Not fun for her mother or her daughter.

life is so hard sometimes...

 

[CharleyH]

Wow... 39 is no age, not even for one living in the fast lane.

YET! Damn you! A life lived has an effect and affect.

 

[scriptordelecto]

YET! Damn you! A life lived has an effect and affect.

So true....even the shortest of them change the people they touch.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oh no. What's going to happen to her baby now?

I have been thinking about that too. Her new husband claims to be the father of the baby, but ANS had a steady boyfriend when she became pregnant, and he claims he is the father. It should be easy enough to learn the truth here. It might take a DNA test and it might not.

As for whether or not either of those two would be a suitable father, I couldn't say. For now, I suppose the stepfather would have custody, but that might change.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

It's sad she died...but it does seem a little odd. They keep saying she just collapsed, but I really don't buy it for a second. Her son just died...she went through the whole TrimSpa thing.

Call me overly paranoid as a result of having smoked too much weed in the past, but it doesn't seem to add up very cleanly.

 

[EllaRegina]

That is beyond sad. I felt for her when her son died. WTF happened? I was also thinking maybe it was drugs or that her body was so out of whack from the kind of dieting she did. Doesn't make it any less sad... I better check out the news portals. Oh man. I thought she had a lot of guts. R.I.P.

 

[neonlyte]

YET! Damn you! A life lived has an effect and affect.

Sure it does... and hers touched more than many others might.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I have no idea what to think about this other than she had some pretty greedy relitives and ...

 

[CharleyH]

Sure it does... and hers touched more than many others might.

Well, as the song went "we all touch." :|

I did not know her, but I realized through media that she loved her son, and that's good enough for me to bend my head in a nod hoping the universe takes her in its arms. Although, admittedly, I'd have wished that always and before that.

 

[Tom Collins]

So, why is no one saying what she died of? It's been more than 12 hours for shit's sake. They ought to have at least an idea by now.

 

[Frank Noir]

She appears to have been profoundly unhappy.

To me that makes her dying so much sadder.