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Posted on 02/08/2007 12:39:03 PM PST by 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."
I was thinking the same thing. I have only listened to Moe and that was Monday night on Greta's show. He never mentioned anyone else was there at the time of Anna's death and also prior to.
Mo stated that he left his wife there to watch over Anna while he ran out on an errand.
You may have seen someone who was super high. If use it often enough you don't get super high on it. Plus it all depends on the quality of the weed.
This explains being simply high on it (a few tokes)... and what may occur when you are super high on it. (smoke a big fat one by yourself - Stern may have been high with her that day.)
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/m/marijuana/symptoms.htm
So the designer wants to make sure we see the "exclusive dress" he has made for her. Uh, I don't see people flocking to buy knock-offs of someones funeral dress. But people surprise me constantly.
This is what made me change my mind about Virgie...her sudden grab try in court in the Bahamas for custody of Dannielynn...it doesn't pass the smell test with me.
No kidding - pneumonia would've been obvious. This is silly.
I'm sure Dr. Perper will be on Nancy or Greta and they will ask him about it. Unless he is on his way to the Bahamas.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Anna was aka "new dress for every occasion". She had a wedding dress for Marshall's funeral for cripes sakes.
Yeah, amazing, isn't it? Yikes, I'm 3 pages behind on reading posts, so should probably catch up and not duplicate anything.
Drudge's headlines have been errroneous in the past. We will see, I guess.
Her property is in California and she isn't even a "legal" resident of the Bahamas. I suspect California will prevail on the will probate.
Yes. Apparently your chances of getting a MERSA infection are higher at a hospital than anywhere else. And the spread of this is growing at an astounding rate.
Anna Nicole Cleared for Bahamian Burial
by Gina Serpe
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:51:00 AM PST
Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals has upheld Judge Larry Seidlin's ruling last Thursday granting custody of Smith's remains to Dannielynn's guardian ad litem Richard Milstein.
The decision clears the way for a Bahamian burial for Smith, which is scheduled to take place Friday at 10:30 a.m., three weeks and one day since Smith's death on Feb. 8.
The decision came just hours after the court heard arguments from all sides Wednesday, to determine whether to uphold or overturn Milstein's appointment as Smith's next of kin.
Virgie Arthur, Smith's estranged mother, filed for an appeal of the ruling last week, seeking for the appellate court to revoke Milstein's next of kin status and grant the title, and all its rights, to her instead.
The ruling was not read on the bench, and all parties were apprised of the decision privately.
On Tuesday, attorneys for Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, as well as for Milstein, filed appeals of their own, requesting that the appellate body uphold Milstein's custody of Smith's body and that Arthur not be deemed the next of kin. Milstein and Stern want Smith buried in the Bahamas next to her son, Daniel.
Arguments from all three parties took place Wednesday morning in front of a three-judge panel comprised of Justices Barry Stone, Mark Polen and George Shahood. Arthur's lawyer, Roberta G. Mandel, was granted 20 minutes to argue her case, while lawyers for Stern and Milstein were granted 10 minutes each.
Arthur, Stern and Milstein were all present in the courtroom, but this time around, they left the talking to their attorneys. Larry Birkhead, ordinarily a staple at Smith hearings, was not present, though two attorneys for Birkhead were in the courtroom.
Mandel kicked off the proceedings by claiming that Seidlin had "cherry-picked" Florida statutes to declare Milstein, via Dannielynn, Smith's next of kin. She also based her argument for not burying Smith in the Bahamas on the fact that the late model never expressly wrote down a provision for where she wanted to be buried.
It was an argument the appeals court seemed to take issue with almost immediately.
"If she purchased a burial plot in the Bahamas, why wouldn't that be written evidence?" they asked.
They further said that it was clear—and that even Arthur herself had to acknowledge—that Smith's final intent, taking into account both the buying of her burial plot and the fact that she buried her late son in the country, was to be buried in the Bahamas.
The judges also said that the wants of the decedent "should be declared paramount even over an expressed will provision."
As for Mandel, she said that she "didn't dispute the facts. [But] the law requires a written proviso."
"Your honors, if this weren't Anna Nicole Smith, the hearing would've been over within a half hour," she said, adding that Milstein was granted "unprecedented discretion" in the case. "My client wants closure as quickly as possible."
Christopher Carver, Milstein's attorney, was next at the podium and found himself justifying the appointment of the guardian ad litem and his power in deciding burial.
"This case is not complicated," Carver said. "The only thing I have an objection to is any further delay to the burial of Anna Nicole Smith."
Carver said that the guardian ad litem was appointed to look out for the best interests of the child, in this case five-month-old Dannielynn. The attorney argued that what is in the best interests of the child is figuring out "who gets the right to determine the disposition of her remains."
"The guardian ad litem is a guardian ad litem," the judges said. "Not a guardian."
Stern's attorney was next up, to echo Carver's argument validating Milstein and to dispute the validity of a statute that Mandel based her argument on.
"The intentions of the decedent are paramount," she said. "We don't have a dispute on what Ms. Smith wanted...There is no question that Dannielynn is the next of kin."
Prior to recessing, the judges questioned whether a funeral was already in the works. Carver said that a service was scheduled to take place Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Bahamas, pending their ruling.
Meanwhile, Florida family court Judge Lawrence Korda finally ruled on an emergency motion filed by Birkhead's team last Friday requesting Korda to enforce an order by a California judge to test the DNA of both Smith and Dannielynn to determine the child's paternity.
Korda rejected the request to take a DNA sample from Dannielynn, claiming he did not have the jurisdiction to do so. But he did order a sampling of Smith's DNA be turned over to Birkhead's lawyers. He also ruled that the remainder of DNA taken from Smith's body after her death remain preserved.
Smith, 39, died in a Florida hotel room. The cause of her death remains under investigation.
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=99d7f2ef-5093-4a71-b554-09d4d9f6ab69
Yeah, just like ANS and HKS "jurisdiction-shopped" on paternity issues in real life, lol!
Will this ruling be appealed?
So he told her she could see the baby and then refused to wake the baby for her? How strange is that behavior?
"her sudden grab try in court in the Bahamas for custody of Dannielynn...it doesn't pass the smell test with me"
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I was disappointed to read your comment - I'm trusting that Virgie's motives are those of a concerned Grandmother - trying to pry the baby from the Toad's clutches.
(Have been wrong before though)
;(
You can look, but don't touch.. (or wake)
"I think she died before she was supposed to."
I think so, too. It would have been much more convenient for her to (fall) overboard on the trip back to the Bahamas in the boat.
The known drug user has an accident or commits suicide. The tell-tale body might never be found, especially if HKS & Co. relate the incident in the manner they have told the Hard Rock stories.
I heard one question the jury asked the judge by note that made me wonder about their intelligence... they asked something about him lying to one of the columist, as if to see if that rose to the level of a conviction.
The creep probably kept the baby awake for a long time so that she'd be sleeping when Virgie came and then he could sanctimoniously say "How dare she ask me to wake up the baby?".
Seriously, i don't put this past him.
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