Anna Nicole Smith has died according to ABC News

[kcvl]

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene.

Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene.

Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."

[Rte66]

Yep. I was just back there getting caught up. Trying to find out if anyone posted the confirmation of Oefelein getting leave to go to FL to be with Shipman. At first, all they said was that he had gone to FL to help with the investigation.

I'll go post it.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Larry Burkett filing some type of case in LA County for emergency order requesting DNA sample from ANS corpse.

Why does he need ANS dna?

[Rte66]

I'm not sure where he was - just out of the room is all I know. I've read it, but can't recall right this minute. LOL, it's *somewhere* on this thread, earlier.

[Rte66]

I don't know how you can be so sure that any will Anna Nicole might have left is properly drawn up. Not if it was done by the person who may have had a hand in her death, it wasn't.

[Rte66]

They have to have the DNA data to file with the papers just to prove Dannielynn is actually Anna Nicole's birth child. You can't just go by a video.

[stlnative]

The purpose of that is they only have 48 hours to get it and a court order is needed. Birkhead needs her DNA because he is also seeking a DNA sample from the baby. They have to make sure once the baby's DNA is submitted that someone did not try to slip another childs DNA in. So if the baby's DNA matches up with mothers sample then they know they have the correct childs DNA. I am sure in the past that another childs DNA has been slipped in before in other cases this why they want the mother's DNA also. (or could be that people have taken a different child in for DNA swabbing, in many cases if the father has not really had a good look at the child he suspects is his, who is to say that a mother would not show up with another infant when the child was to be swabbed especially if she does not what the real father to know he is the real father. This is why they also swab the mother when they swab the baby)

[stlnative]

see 1786

[stlnative]

does not WANT the real father

[stlnative]

I bet there has been some sneeky stuff go on before in DNA cases. That is why they had to put these procedures into place.

[RunningWolf]

The Anna $500k death video. What is it with people?

When I was 14 I saw my own mother try to resuscitate another boy my age who drowned in a small lake.

I saw his body turn purple and vomit in her face as she tried to breathe life into him.

[Mad-Margaret]

OT.

You mean this story? What thread did you post it in?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/4538945.html

[Rightfootforward]

"I don't think it would be too difficult for her to O.D. from an unintentional overdose."

I'll only add that the phrase 'unintentional overdose' becomes problematical past a certain point in addiction. As was pointed out to me upon my arrival in AA in 1970, I'd "been committing suicide on the installment plan" for quite some time. Couldn't and didn't argue with that -- it was obviously true. (For the record, I've been continuously sober ever since. I don't take credit for that. I know darned good and well that AA and the fine people in it are the reason I'm still upright, if you catch my drift.)

It saddens me that Anna didn't choose to remain sober following her stay at the Betty Ford Center in 1995. Though we don't yet know the official cause of her death, there isn't a chance her addiction or addictions did her any good.

[Rte66]

No, a more updated one - here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779787/posts?page=1421#1421

[flaglady47]

"When I was 14 I saw my own mother try to resuscitate another boy my age who drowned in a small lake.

I saw his body turn purple and vomit in her face as she tried to breathe life into him."

When young, I and another person did CPR on a lawyer who had been talking on the phone to another lawyer in the law firm I worked at, and keeled over between his desk and back credenza where his phone was. The guy was about 6 foot 4, and huge. Smoked cigars. I had just finished taking the EMT courses at a junior college and had finished the CPR part of the class just recently. Little did I know I would need it so quickly. Someone in the firm called me and said the lawyer was unconscious and could I come down to help. So I did, as did our comptroller, and, because he was older and looked like he might have his own heart attack, another younger guy took over for him and we ended up doing 2-person CPR. The lawyer had turned blue-purple, and had also vomited, which makes mouth to mouth real unpleasant, I can assure you. First thing you have to do is clear the passageway, by taking your finger and wiping out the vomit. We kept him alive until the paramedics got there (it was in downtown Chicago in the Sears Tower, so it took about 20 minutes for the EMT's to show up). Moral of story, if you are going to have a heart attack, don't do it in the middle of a big city. He was still alive on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, but then died. Talk about on the job learning on how to be an EMT. Actually, I was just taking the course for knowledge, not for a full-time job, although I did do EMT work for a very short time (my friend's father owned an ambulance service). Your comments brought back this old memory to me.

[Rte66]

Transcript from Larry King Live last night

- ANS's half-sister Donna Hogan; Birkhead's lawyer Opri; clips of ANS and Stern; Cyril Wecht; ANS "friends": some strange TrimSpa people; some movie people; China the wrestler; catfight; more medical people and legal people; various and sundry others

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/08/lkl.01.html

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Going before the Supreme Court offers very convincing proof of competency.

Huh? She dressed up, walked in, and sat in the visitors section to root for her lawyers.

[Uncle Meat]

Why does he need ANS dna?

Maybe he wants to clone her.I wouldn't doubt it.All this overexposure about another drugged out celeberty biting the big one is getting ridiculous.Some moron is even willing to shell out 500k for her last dying minutes?Hell,it'll be on You tube any time now if he can wait ten minutes.Maybe he wants it in high def.I'm sure Paris Hilton and Britney Spears won't be far behind.You can only bang all of Hollywood or snort so much coke off toilet seats before the grim reaper comes a knockin.

[RunningWolf]

Wow! talk about degrees of separation.

My Dad was the Purchasing/Contract Manager at the Crescent Erection Company/Corp., which put the curtain-wall/glass-glazing on the Sears Tower.

I had a job to be an iron worker for the Sears Tower build, and I wish it had happened now.

[Global2010]

You have mail buddy.

[Rte66]

Done deal.

For anyone wanting to sign a guestbook for Anna Nicole, here's one:

http://www.legacy.com/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86366943