Anna Nicole Smith, 1967-2007

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I'm shocked to learn that model and actress Anna Nicole Smith has died.


She collapsed at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Attempts to revive her by CPR had failed. She was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead, a bit after 2:00PM Eastern Time (11:00AM Pacific Time). Her death happened just months after her 20-year-old son Daniel died in the hospital room on September 10, 2006- just three days after she gave birth to daugter Daniellynn Hope Smith.

The woman born Vicki Lynn Marshall on November 28, 1967 (about four months after the birth of this blogger) modeled for Guess? jeans. She had her own TV series on E! Entertainment Television (The Anna Nicole Show), strugged with weight problems; was a Playmate of the Year by Playboy; and was married thrice- she was 17 when she gave birth to Daniel, and then there's that well-publicized (to death, it seemed) marriage to oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall (no relation to Smith's birth name or family), which lasted 13 months until Marshall's death in 1995. Smith was 26, Marshall, 89. After Marshall's death, Smith and E. Pierece Marshall- Howard marshall's son- sqauared off in legal proceedings. She lost the two proceedings. (E. Pierce Marshall died last June at 67). She married her personal attorney Howard K. Stern (no relation to the shock jock) weeks after her daughter's birth and son's death.
(however, with no proof of a marriage license, the ceremony- and marriage- is not legally binding).

When Daniellynn was born, two men- Stern mentioned that the two were in love for some time. However, Larry Birkhead, entertainment photojournalist, begged to differ. Both claimed to be Daniellynn's father. However, Bahamian birth records show that Stern is the father.

Details are still developing on this tragic, sudden death of this international superstar.

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