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Taco John
02-08-2007, 03:51 PM
Reported on the radio that she's dead... Here's the only story I found...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/08/anna.nicole.collapses/index.html
Anna Nicole Smith dead
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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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B-Love
02-08-2007, 03:54 PM
CNN confirming she is dead. Wow.
Florida_Bronco
02-08-2007, 03:54 PM
MSNBC just confirmed it, per Smith's attorney.
ludo21
02-08-2007, 03:56 PM
wow
RIP
Mtbrncofn
02-08-2007, 03:57 PM
Holy ****. How terrible. That poor baby.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 03:59 PM
Crazy.
You know how people always come up with really nice things to say about the dead - even if they weren't really great people.
I wonder how that's going to work, in this case.
Never wish for anybody to die but man, she led a turbulant life.
Mtbrncofn
02-08-2007, 04:00 PM
Crazy.
You know how people always come up with really nice things to say about the dead - even if they weren't really great people.
I wonder how that's going to work, in this case.
She really loved her son, it appeared.
footstepsfrom#27
02-08-2007, 04:02 PM
Crazy.
You know how people always come up with really nice things to say about the dead - even if they weren't really great people.
I wonder how that's going to work, in this case.
She envisioned herself as Marylin Monroe. It looks like she followed her legacy to far.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:02 PM
She really loved her son, it appeared.
I hope so. That's the tragic part of it, I guess. I hope there is someone with the baby's best interest at heart that will step up and take him.
heydensmom
02-08-2007, 04:03 PM
WOW very interesting. I bet Howard Marshall's kids are cheering.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:05 PM
WOW very interesting. I bet Howard Marshall's kids are cheering.
It's so sad that you were able to rattle his name off the top of your head like that. :D
Master___Pain
02-08-2007, 04:08 PM
Comparing her to Marlyn Monroe is ridiculous.
I'm going to shut up now because if I share my opinion on the subject people are going to get huffy.
I do wish the best for her now motherless infant daughter.
watermock
02-08-2007, 04:11 PM
No comment.
TheDave
02-08-2007, 04:13 PM
I'm shocked she lasted as long as she did...
Pezman
02-08-2007, 04:14 PM
What a tragic, tabloid end to her stay on earth. Pretty sad, albeit not shocking end to her troubled life. RIP
cutthemdown
02-08-2007, 04:14 PM
I hope so. That's the tragic part of it, I guess. I hope there is someone with the baby's best interest at heart that will step up and take him.
They will find out the real dad and that person will do their best I think. Hopefully it won't be that attorney of hers Stern!!!!! He seems like a little weezil.
Rock Chalk
02-08-2007, 04:16 PM
I cant believe i didnt see this coming!
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:17 PM
I'm shocked she lasted as long as she did...
Insensitive bastard.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:18 PM
They will find out the real dad and that person will do their best I think. Hopefully it won't be that attorney of hers Stern!!!!! He seems like a little weezil.
No kidding. I'd say he seemed like a gold digger, but I'm not sure she had much gold.
freak6
02-08-2007, 04:18 PM
What a sad thing. Hollywierd example right here.
heydensmom
02-08-2007, 04:19 PM
No comment.
WHAT?!?! LOL by saying no comment you are definately making a comment
watermock
02-08-2007, 04:19 PM
This should be a lesson to those seeking mental help...obviously, she was helped.
WoodMan
02-08-2007, 04:21 PM
So sad. To paraphrase the lyrics to a song. "Motherless children have a hard time, when the Mother is gone".
Rock Chalk
02-08-2007, 04:21 PM
Insensitive bastard.
Not really.
If you have ever seen 5 minutes of her talking you knew it was coming.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:23 PM
Not really.
If you have ever seen 5 minutes of her talking you knew it was coming.
I prefer to remember the good times we had with her.
TexanBob
02-08-2007, 04:23 PM
After the Grossman thread on Monday, I was hoping this was just another attempt at bad humor but it sounds like it is true.
Good thing she didn't drown at sea...
watermock
02-08-2007, 04:25 PM
She was obviously untstable...
Rock Chalk
02-08-2007, 04:27 PM
I prefer to remember the good times we had with her.
I wasnt aware there were any.
Im not speaking ill of her by any means, but Im not sugar coating a troubled person's life just because they died either.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:29 PM
I wasnt aware there were any.
Im not speaking ill of her by any means, but Im not sugar coating a troubled person's life just because they died either.
I was being sarcastic.
gunns
02-08-2007, 04:31 PM
I'm shocked she lasted as long as she did...
That's what I thought too. A very sad life, seemed to be looking for love in all the wrong places....money, sex, drugs.
footstepsfrom#27
02-08-2007, 04:31 PM
Comparing her to Marlyn Monroe is ridiculous.
Yes it is...but I didn't make the comparison...she did. People who knew her say she idolized Monroe and dreamed of becoming the next Marillyn. The press also picked up on it and she apparently enjoyed being compared with her. The fact that she's now dead at such a young age is errie in terms of the parallels...I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a sucide in some kind of tortured attempt to play out her role.
broncocalijohn
02-08-2007, 04:35 PM
She is worth 61 points on any Death watch pool. That can get you #1 for the year based on picking Anna for your Death pick for 2007. I am going out on a limb and say she died of cocaine. Just a hunch. Only positive (non joke) is I hope they find the father of her little one. That is going to be a three ring circus. I also predict baby will be in hiding. Mark it.
sirhcyennek81
02-08-2007, 04:36 PM
and? The world wont stop because one more actor/actress/"artist" decided to end it all. Sad for her daughter, thats about it.
:Broncos:
manchambo
02-08-2007, 04:37 PM
They will find out the real dad and that person will do their best I think. Hopefully it won't be that attorney of hers Stern!!!!! He seems like a little weezil.
The unfortunate thing is that little baby is now worth a lot of money to whoever can prove he is the father, because she is likely the sole heir to whatever Anna Nicole had, and anything that comes out of the Marshall estate. Greed is not exactly the best bss n hich t odecde who should raise a baby.
Bronx33
02-08-2007, 04:48 PM
Another weird chapter is written..
TheDave
02-08-2007, 04:50 PM
Insensitive bastard.
yeah, I'm all busted up over Anna Nicole Smith finally dieing from the sword she lived by. by the way I'm assuming you were joking :wiggle:
Master___Pain
02-08-2007, 04:51 PM
Sad for her daughter, thats about it. :Broncos:
My thoughts exactly. That's the only tragedy in this whole situation.
Rohirrim
02-08-2007, 04:52 PM
That poor baby will now be raised by the lawyer who was suing the mother to prove paternity in order to get a piece of the $90 million dollar estate. If I'm the judge, I'm assigning a guardian ad litum and telling this lawyer to stick it. If I'm a South Florida homicide detective, I want to know where that lawyer was when Smith died.
Taco John
02-08-2007, 04:54 PM
I prefer to remember the good times we had with her.
I wasnt aware there were any.
What are you gay?
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DomCasual
02-08-2007, 04:59 PM
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What are you gay?
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At least she found true love.
http://www.buec.udel.edu/pollacks/images/Anna%20Nicole%20Smith%20and%20Howard%20Marshall.gi f
gunns
02-08-2007, 05:00 PM
She is worth 61 points on any Death watch poll. That can get you #1 for the year based on picking Anna for your Death pick for 2007. I am going out on a limb and say she died of cocaine. Just a hunch. Only positive (non joke) is I hope they find the father of her little one. That is going to be a three ring circus. I also predict baby will be in hiding. Mark it.
If it was drugs I doubt it was cocaine. She always seemed to be on some kind of downer, heroin, quaaludes, something along those lines. I agree on the 3 ring circus. I hope it's solved soon so that baby can have a stable life.
Rascal
02-08-2007, 05:00 PM
No offense but who cares.
***Didn't realize she had a kid, for the kid I'm remourseful.
footstepsfrom#27
02-08-2007, 05:06 PM
I never quite no what to make of cold hearted responses to someone's death simply because they lived a troubled life. If anything the evidence of a troubled soul seems to magnify the impact of death IMO. Regardless of what she was, hopefully she was important to someone.
Tredici
02-08-2007, 05:11 PM
Hard to imagine how the child takes the tale of her family. Well, your brother was found dead in the hospital room the day you were born and your Mom followed suit a couple months later...
Cheerful.
Rock Chalk
02-08-2007, 05:13 PM
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What are you gay?
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Just because you are queer doesnt mean anyone else is.
I didnt know she was in Playboy which might fall under the "I wasnt aware there were any" statement if I thought she was even remotely attractive. She was a brute of a woman with more airbrushing on the cover alone than most grafiti artists do in a lifetime.
Old Dude
02-08-2007, 05:20 PM
http://www.buec.udel.edu/pollacks/images/Anna%20Nicole%20Smith%20and%20Howard%20Marshall.gi f
I don't really see anything wrong with that.
Of course, I might be biased.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 05:24 PM
I never quite no what to make of cold hearted responses to someone's death simply because they lived a troubled life. If anything the evidence of a troubled soul seems to magnify the impact of death IMO. Regardless of what she was, hopefully she was important to someone.
Sorry, but the woman didn't have a single redeeming quality - at least that she showed in her public persona.
I guess your argument would work with the "If you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything at all" adage. And really, if this had happened when I was in a different mood, I probably would have taken that approach.
BoiseBluTurf
02-08-2007, 05:27 PM
Ann NiGOLDigger Smith was not a good person... plane and simple... that being said... there is nothing more heartbreaking than a child growing up with out parents! My heart goes out to her daughter!
Michael
bronco militia
02-08-2007, 05:30 PM
an absolutely stunning woman that could instantly become repulsive the moment she opened her mouth....
damn that July 1992 issue of playboy!
DenverBrit
02-08-2007, 05:33 PM
Ann NiGOLDigger Smith was not a good person... plane and simple... that being said... there is nothing more heartbreaking than a child growing up with out parents! My heart goes out to her daughter!
Michael
How would you KNOW she isn't a good person? The press?? :rofl:
As for a child without parents....didn't she marry her attorney?
Garcia Bronco
02-08-2007, 05:36 PM
Crazy.
You know how people always come up with really nice things to say about the dead - even if they weren't really great people.
I wonder how that's going to work, in this case.
Ain't that the truth
OrangeShadow
02-08-2007, 05:38 PM
I feel remorse for her kid thats about it to be honest.
broncosteven
02-08-2007, 05:48 PM
Well at least we know who would let us know on the Mane if she died!
See the would I be missed if gone thread if you don't get it...
footstepsfrom#27
02-08-2007, 06:15 PM
Sorry, but the woman didn't have a single redeeming quality - at least that she showed in her public persona.
I guess your argument would work with the "If you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything at all" adage. And really, if this had happened when I was in a different mood, I probably would have taken that approach.
What argument is that? It was a commentary on my own confusion over how to respond. I can easily work up a case of glee over the blatantly evil departing for their just rewards...the Sadaam Husein's and Ted Bundy's of the world...but I just don't know how to respond to somebody who seemingly wasted their life chasing something they thought they needed to be happy. I guess if anything I feel kind of empty that somebody who tried so hard for acceptance through money, fame, etc...probably had nothing to show for such a missguided effort at the end.
I think she was probably somebody who hated herself more than others did.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 06:36 PM
What argument is that? It was a commentary on my own confusion over how to respond. I can easily work up a case of glee over the blatantly evil departing for their just rewards...the Sadaam Husein's and Ted Bundy's of the world...but I just don't know how to respond to somebody who seemingly wasted their life chasing something they thought they needed to be happy. I guess if anything I feel kind of empty that somebody who tried so hard for acceptance through money, fame, etc...probably had nothing to show for such a missguided effort at the end.
I think she was probably somebody who hated herself more than others did.
I guess I used the word argument in reference to your comment about not showing glee over someone dying (paraphrasing there).
The first time you hear it, it's shocking more than anything. But as the day went on, I found myself thinking, "By damn, there probably aren't many who are really negatively impacted over it." If she's anything like she appeared to be, you could even argue that her daughter would be better off - even if they just put her with strangers.
If I was forced to summarize her in one word, it would be entitlement. She seemed to feel that she was entitled to things without having to work for them. That's not a very endearing quality.
I know how you feel, though. You feel that you should feel sad, or something - even though you don't know the person. Take Darrent Williams - even taking the Broncos connection out of it, you could easily look at his life and find many, many things that he brought to the world - things that made the world a better place with him than it would be without him. Even without knowing him, it's understandable to feel a sense of loss at his death. With someone like Anna Nicole Smith - not so much. It's sad, but it's the way it is.
I can't stand when people make comments like "she was not a good person". Did you know her personally? Did you know of the good things she did in her life or only the rotten troubled things the media likes to report on? Sure she had problems but who doesn't. Was she a gold digger? Probably, but she didn't put a gun to anybody's head, she wasn't a murderin thug or child abuser. She was troubled sure, but that's no reason to say the person was no good at all.
Let's hope in your death that people have better things to say about you then you had to say about Anna.
Again, she wasn't a model citizen, but she wasn't on death row either. Give the lady a break.
DomCasual
02-08-2007, 07:36 PM
I can't stand when people make comments like "she was not a good person". Did you know her personally? Did you know of the good things she did in her life or only the rotten troubled things the media likes to report on? Sure she had problems but who doesn't. Was she a gold digger? Probably, but she didn't put a gun to anybody's head, she wasn't a murderin thug or child abuser. She was troubled sure, but that's no reason to say the person was no good at all.
Let's hope in your death that people have better things to say about you then you had to say about Anna.
Again, she wasn't a model citizen, but she wasn't on death row either. Give the lady a break.
Oh please! We are not talking about a victim of the media here. The media portrayed her exactly the way she wanted them to portray her. She had her own reality show, for hell's sakes. If it wasn't for the media, she'd be just some anonymous woman living in Texas.
It's one thing when you're an athlete, and the media is just a necessary part of your profession. People like her and Paris Hilton are driven by the media. If they aren't on the gossip shows and magazines, they're doing something wrong.
Seriously, that's just ridiculous.
TexanBob
02-08-2007, 07:57 PM
Let's hope in your death that people have better things to say about you then you had to say about Anna.
Not to be cold but...does it matter what people say about you when you die? It's not like you can get offended or pissed off. If there's an afterlife to enjoy, you're too busy enjoying it to care. If there's an afterlife of misery, you're too busy suffering it. If there's an afterlife of blind unconsciousness, you won't know what anyone said about you the second after you expired. And if you believe in no afterlife at all, same thing.
I've always thought the funeral was for the living, not for the deceased. We only pretend it is for the deceased since we are told to feel sorry for them.
If people want to speak ill of me after I die, I doubt it's going to mean very much to me at all.
dnvrbrncos
02-08-2007, 08:25 PM
Am I the only one familiar with adoption? How is she (the daughter) going to grow up without parents? Is it really sad that she now has a shot at having a mother with a good head on her shoulders?
Kaylore
02-08-2007, 10:14 PM
I'm still having trouble finding out what actually happened to her...
Sodak
02-08-2007, 11:50 PM
She probably forgot to keep breathing...
Breck Bronc
02-08-2007, 11:53 PM
If it wasn't for the media, she'd be just some anonymous woman living in Texas.No, if it weren't for her gigantic breasts and blonde hair she'd be just an anonymous woman living in Texas.
Anna was geniunely hot back in the day. Her performance in Naked Gun 33 1/3, while not Oscar worthy, surely got the attention of many teenage boys.
watermock
02-09-2007, 12:21 AM
I was taught that if you can't say something nice about the recently deceased, keep your mouth shut. Since I can't, so be it.
Houshyamama
02-09-2007, 12:32 AM
YAHOO News Headline: "From small-town girl to pop-culture icon, Anna Nicole's life was filled with great highs and terrible lows."
..is that a coke pun?
SouthStndJunkie
02-09-2007, 12:43 AM
At least she found true love.
http://www.buec.udel.edu/pollacks/images/Anna%20Nicole%20Smith%20and%20Howard%20Marshall.gi f
You don't see too many 89 year olds sporting **** eating grins like that.
Tredici
02-09-2007, 01:19 AM
Am I the only one familiar with adoption? How is she (the daughter) going to grow up without parents? Is it really sad that she now has a shot at having a mother with a good head on her shoulders?
She has two men fighting out paternity rights. I'm sure for the child. Not for the money...
broncocalijohn
02-09-2007, 02:07 AM
No comment.
Right when I think Mock has done his best post for laughs, he comes up with this one! Mock, you moron! Nobody asked you what you thought, yet you put no comment. A few post later, you do comment on it. Another example of why you think you need to be heard. I think you like to hear yourself post for the zillionth time. At least I can say "Thank you for the entertainment factor. "No comment" What an idiot. I meant dimwit.
watermock
02-09-2007, 02:10 AM
Your an idiot. I could give a littany of her missbehaving. To what point.
Atlas
02-09-2007, 02:27 AM
Just because she did drugs and led a turbulant life doesn't mean she was a bad person. From what I have heard and seen she was a very nice person.
Bronco Bob
02-09-2007, 03:08 AM
That poor baby will now be raised by the lawyer who was suing the mother to prove paternity in order to get a piece of the $90 million dollar estate. If I'm the judge, I'm assigning a guardian ad litum and telling this lawyer to stick it. If I'm a South Florida homicide detective, I want to know where that lawyer was when Smith died.
Isn't it odd that her son died a few days after the baby was born and now
Anna is dead. If the DNA test show he is the father of the infant that means
any of Anna's money is now in his control and no one else is left alive to have
any say in how it is spent. I'm not saying..., just saying.
Hogan11
02-09-2007, 07:43 AM
an absolutely stunning woman that could instantly become repulsive the moment she opened her mouth....
Jenny McCarthy is the first person to come to my mind when I read this.
ozomulsion
02-09-2007, 09:35 AM
I can't stand when people make comments like "she was not a good person". Did you know her personally? Did you know of the good things she did in her life or only the rotten troubled things the media likes to report on? Sure she had problems but who doesn't. Was she a gold digger? Probably, but she didn't put a gun to anybody's head, she wasn't a murderin thug or child abuser. She was troubled sure, but that's no reason to say the person was no good at all.
Let's hope in your death that people have better things to say about you then you had to say about Anna.
Again, she wasn't a model citizen, but she wasn't on death row either. Give the lady a break.
Obviously you never saw the home video of her enticing the old man, with sex, to sign the Will over to her. Here's a quote, "If you don't sign the papers, you won't get the cherry." That is getting to know her on a personal level. She was a genuinely bad person, period. I could say worse but won't.
If it was drugs I doubt it was cocaine. She always seemed to be on some kind of downer, heroin, quaaludes, something along those lines. I agree on the 3 ring circus. I hope it's solved soon so that baby can have a stable life.
She took Methadone like it was going out of style, it's very well known. Her son died from a Methadone overdose. Hmm, I wonder who he got it from. Looks like her son's death (on her Methadone) and the lawsuit led her to take a few too many, mixed with xanax. I would assume.<write it down. It's very sad her baby girl didn't make her think more about her pill ingestion but it's pretty hard to think strait on methadone.
Old Dude
02-09-2007, 10:12 AM
Or, she might have been taken out by a mini-nuke, as part of a government conspiracy. It will take a few months, but it's just a matter of time before the video-analysis begins.
Bronco Bob
02-09-2007, 10:51 AM
Or, she might have been taken out by a mini-nuke, as part of a government conspiracy. It will take a few months, but it's just a matter of time before the video-analysis begins.
Perhaps the coroner should check her blood for traces of red mercury. :clown:
Bronco_Beerslug
02-09-2007, 10:58 AM
I didn't know who she was, I thought she was a tennis player.
DenverBrit
02-09-2007, 11:03 AM
She took Methadone like it was going out of style, it's very well known. Her son died from a Methadone overdose. Hmm, I wonder who he got it from. Looks like her son's death (on her Methadone) and the lawsuit led her to take a few too many, mixed with xanax. I would assume. write it down. It's very sad her baby girl didn't make her think more about her pill ingestion but it's pretty hard to think strait on methadone.
Rushing to judgment and piling on is alive and well.
spdirty
02-09-2007, 11:13 AM
good news is, now the kid has a chance of not being raised by a drunk doped up slut of a mother.
Still sad she lived and died the way she did, Hopefully her kid is raised to be a better person. OK, Im sick of the nonstop covergage of it already...moving on...
DenverBrit
02-09-2007, 05:57 PM
good news is, now the kid has a chance of not being raised by a drunk doped up slut of a mother.
Casting stones by the self righteous has always been hypocritical.
Willynowei
02-09-2007, 07:16 PM
I feel bad about not caring.
spdirty
02-09-2007, 08:09 PM
Casting stones by the self righteous has always been hypocritical.
so I am hypocritical for calling a spade a spade?
Atlas
02-09-2007, 08:28 PM
so I am hypocritical for calling a spade a spade?
I'm pretty sure he was calling you hypocritical because you're quick to judge and condemn other people without looking inward towards your own faults.
Don't worry it's a common problem with you right wingers.
DenverBrit
02-10-2007, 02:19 AM
so I am hypocritical for calling a spade a spade?
What is your rationale for degrading her when she has just passed away?
Surely it's not a perversion of Christian values that motivates you.
So what is it?
Kaylore
02-10-2007, 05:13 AM
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070210/D8N6IF384.html
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Prescription drugs were found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room, but there were no pills in her stomach, and investigators said Friday they are awaiting tests that could tell whether the former centerfold died of an overdose, as some close to her suspect.
At the same time, a judge in Los Angeles ordered that the model's body be preserved for at least 10 days for a possible DNA test related to a paternity dispute. The ruling could interfere with plans for a funeral.
Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner who did the autopsy, said no illegal drugs were discovered in Smith's room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood after the 39-year-old pinup collapsed there on Thursday. He would not identify the prescription drugs.
But CNN quoted an unidentified law enforcement source as saying there were large amounts of prescription drugs, including Valium and antibiotics, as well as over-the-counter cold and flu medication.
Perper said that although toxicology tests are pending, the autopsy found no immediate evidence, either in Smith's stomach or her bloodstream, that she had taken large amounts of prescription medication. But officials "do not exclude any kind of contribution of medication to the death," he added.
He reported signs of inflammation in Smith's heart - "Something which looks a little bit unusual" - but added, "It may be nothing."
He said it would take three to five weeks to conclude the investigation. Authorities also planned to interview a nurse and others and examine medical records before settling on a cause of death.
Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said there was no indication the voluptuous blonde was the victim of a crime, and Perper said the autopsy was able to exclude any kind of physical injury such as blows to the body or asphyxiation.
"There are a number of possibilities" as to the cause of death, Perper said, including natural causes, a drug reaction or some combination of the two.
Perper said she had been sick for several days with some kind of stomach flu.
And in yet another strange twist in the case, a third man - the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Prince Frederic von Anhalt - stepped forward Friday to claim he may be the baby's father.
Smith, a small-town Texas girl who went from topless dancer to Playboy Playmate of the Year, Guess jeans model and bride of an 89-year-old oilman, was found unconscious in her hotel room by a private nurse, officials said. A bodyguard performed CPR, Tiger said, but Smith was declared dead at a hospital.
In recent TV appearances, Smith's speech was often slurred and critics said she seemed drugged-out.
Michael Scott, a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas, said he suspects drugs "featured in her death." And Smith's mother said Friday she believes her daughter died of an overdose. Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died in September of what was believed to be an accidental drug overdose, around the time Smith gave birth to her daughter, Dannielynn.
"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny," her mother, Vergie Arthur, told ABC's "Good Morning America.""I tried to warn her about drugs and the people that she hung around with. She didn't listen."
"She was too drugged up," Arthur said. "By the last interview I saw of her, she was so wasted."
Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, dismissed claims her death was related to drugs as "a bunch of nonsense." Rale said he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.
In Los Angeles, a judge ordered that Smith's body be preserved until a Feb. 20 hearing in the paternity case. He refused to order an immediate DNA test on Smith to help identify the baby's father.
Normally, there is no need for DNA testing on the mother in a paternity case. But one of the men who are claiming to be the baby's father asked for genetic material from Smith to guard against a possible baby switch.
Two men have claimed to be the father: attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion, and Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend. Then, on Friday, von Anhalt announced that he had had an affair with Smith and might be the father.
The paternity decision could determine the child's inheritance.
At her death, Smith was waging a yearslong court battle over the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall II, who died in 1995 at age 90. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million, but that was later overturned.
So I guess there are some tests still pending, but it would appear drugs may be the culprit. Pity.
Meck77
02-10-2007, 10:44 AM
I saw the interview with her mother last night. Hard to believe that it was even her "loving" mother. Wow this death is getting more strange the more I read and hest. This is my first post on the subject and really haven't paid much attention to her life but with the nearly 1/2 billion dollars at stake, the scumbag attorney, the strange circle of deaths between anna's son, hers, Marshall's son's recent death, a handful of others, this has potential scandal written all over it.
Oh not to mention all the lawsuits going on. The sad thing is when people are interviewed about her death it's as if nobody is really mourning the loss of Anna. It seems these interviews are more of a way to take shots at her or gain a bit of fame.
Ah then there is the question of who's the daddy. What's at stake? 400 or so million dollars so that should be interesting.
This stern dude already has his name as the legal daddy yet there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise.
Question for you Anna reality show followers? When did this asshole move into the picture and was he her actual attorney? Did he work on Anna's case to try and get the money from Marshall's family? Everything I'm reading and seeing about this stern cat sure makes him seem like he was after the cash/controlling a poor drugged up blonde gal. Am I way off base here?
I don't think Anna Nicole's reality show is over. Infact I think it's just shifted into high gear.
RIP Anna. The real sad thing about this is her motherless daughter but other than that I feel she is in a better place because the people she was surrounded by seemed to not even cared about her as a person.
usedupbraids
02-10-2007, 01:19 PM
people come in go i wonder if someone in the orangemane died.Will we found out if he or she dies? RIP :(
Rocket 7
02-10-2007, 02:07 PM
http://www.livevideo.com/video/landing/770C3EA939744DC7A347E9585DAF82AD/anna-nicole-smith-s-last-minutes-500-000-footage.aspx?tx_site=nothingtoxic.com&tx_cid=553&tx_category=1
DomCasual
02-10-2007, 03:24 PM
people come in go i wonder if someone in the orangemane died.Will we found out if he or she dies? RIP :(
Can I get a translation?
Blueflame
02-10-2007, 03:35 PM
Can I get a translation?
I think he's asking the same question posed in this thread:
http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=52880
TexanBob
02-10-2007, 03:40 PM
T-shirts that say "I Fathered Anna's Baby" should sell like hotcakes. The paternity tests should be shown on pay-per-view with Maury Povich as guest host.
DomCasual
02-10-2007, 03:52 PM
I think he's asking the same question posed in this thread:
http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=52880
Oh! Got it.
usedupbraids
02-11-2007, 09:54 AM
Can I get a translation?
lol :~ohyah!: