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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."
ewwwwwwwwww...in the bottom pic, is that Goats' back??? And they're using pics of Dannilynn in the ads!
SOMEBODY needs to get that baby out of the Bahamas!
I'm interested in knowing what the tests show. I wish her well.
ProfNet Wire: Government & Law: Proposed Ban on Pretexting Libraries Life News (Social and Behavioral Sciences) Keywords ANNA NICOLE SMITH, FTC, PRETEXTING, PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INTERNET ADDICTION Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description 1) Law: Disposition of Anna Nicole Smith's Assets Contested Litigation; 2) Law: FTC Goes on Pretexting Offensive; 3) Law: Supreme Court Punitive-Damages Ruling Leaves Questions; 4) Law: Is Internet Addiction a Disability? LEADS 1. Law: Disposition of Anna Nicole Smith's Assets Contested Litigation 2. Law: FTC Goes on Pretexting Offensive 3. Law: Supreme Court Punitive-Damages Ruling Leaves Questions 4. Law: Is Internet Addiction a Disability? _____ LEADS **1. LAW: DISPOSITION OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S ASSETS CONTESTED LITIGATION. JEFFREY A. BASKIES is a Florida Bar board-certified specialist in wills, trusts and estates law, and a partner at RUDEN MCCLOSKY, the largest law firm in Broward County and one of the largest firms in Florida: "With the trial over Anna Nicole Smith's body completed, the next hotly contested litigation will likely address the disposition of her assets and should take place in a court in the Bahamas and/or California. Three potential outcomes include: 1. The will does not validly dispose of the estate and, as a result, the assets pass to Dannielynn under the intestacy laws. 2. The assets pass under the will to Howard K. Stern as trustee, to be managed under such terms as the court establishes, most likely for the benefit of Dannielynn. 3. The will does not validly dispose of the estate, and the assets pass to Smith's parents under the intestacy laws, excluding Dannielynn as a result of the express disinheritance of after-born children contained in the will." Baskies was ranked among the top 100 trusts and estates attorneys in the U.S. by Robb Report's Worth magazine in each of that publication's two annual listings (2005 and 2006). A video clip of Baskies' commentary on CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Feb. 20 can be viewed through the link below. Baskies: jeff.baskies@ruden.com Phone: +1-954-527-2488 Cell: +1-561-289-8470 News Contact: Martha Lord, martha.lord@ruden.com Phone: +1-954-527-6214 Web site: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=185351400 (2/26/07) **2. LAW: FTC GOES ON PRETEXTING OFFENSIVE. PETER S. VOGEL, partner at Dallas' GARDERE WYNNE SEWELL: "Seeking to bring an end to the practice of using false pretenses to get someone's phone records, the Federal Trade Commission has filed suit to permanently ban telephone 'pretexting.' The FTC is most concerned that the subsequent offer to sell the falsely obtained information is an invasion of privacy. So much of this same information is freely available on the Internet, but some individuals have gone too far in getting the data and misrepresented who they are. Apparently, the phone companies are more easily duped than consumers believed possible. Assuming the FTC gets the relief it seeks, this should help turn the tide on this type of behavior." News Contact: Rhonda Reddick, rhonda@legalpr.com Phone: +1-800-559- 4534 (2/28/07) **3. LAW: SUPREME COURT PUNITIVE-DAMAGES RULING LEAVES QUESTIONS. SCOTT STOLLEY, appellate attorney at Dallas' THOMPSON & KNIGHT: "Phillip Morris scored a victory when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a $79.5 million punitive damages award against the tobacco company, ruling that punitive damages can be awarded only to named plaintiffs, not for harm to others who are not named in the lawsuit. The ruling offers little direction, though, for trial judges in making that distinction. The court is saying that jurors can consider a defendant's reprehensible behavior in a broad sense, but not in determining a specific level of punishment. As a practical matter, I'm not sure how judges and jurors are going to apply this ruling without additional guidance." News Contact: Barry Pound, barry@legalpr.com Phone: +1-800-559-4534 (2/28/07) **4. LAW: IS INTERNET ADDICTION A DISABILITY? AUDREY MROSS, head of the labor and employment practice at Dallas-based MUNCK BUTRUS: "A man is fired by IBM for repeatedly visiting adult chat rooms while at work and sues the company for $5 million, claiming he has an Internet addiction and should be protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This type of suit demonstrates the gap between congressional intent in drafting the ADA and how it is often abused. The ADA exists to protect the thousands of disabled individuals who can't get or hold down a job due to employer discrimination. It does not promise employment to individuals who can't or won't follow the employer's reasonable rules, which apply to all employees." News Contact: Alan Bentrup, alan@legalpr.com Phone: +1-800-559-4534 (2/26/07)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/527725/
Thanks Rte66.
Second guessing isn't really fair....but, I will anyway. lol
Vergie should have gone to the Bahamas when Dannilynn was born. Let Goat and drug woman throw a hissy and make a scene. So what? At least she could say she tried. Same when Daniel died. She should have gone there. And, superior me, thinks she should have attempted to stay in touch with Daniel all these years. I haven't heard if she did try....maybe she did.
I think her case would have been a lot stronger if she could prove that she did try to reach out to Vickie.
Read Wikepedia as to ANS' family. Virgie may not have ever been mother of the year. I don't know...but I'm getting an uncomfortable feeling about her the more I learn.
Not Aruba's Fate
By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Staff Reporter
Nearly two years ago, Mississippi teenager Natalee Holloway mysteriously went missing while on a class trip to the quaint Caribbean Island of Aruba.
Her disappearance drew curious eyes from all over the world to the small vacation country with just around 100,000 residents and riveted everyone to the television set. Aruban natives, American citizens and people from countries all over the globe wondered what happened to the beautiful 18-year-old with a bright future ahead of her on a seemingly harmless vacation.
"I think people are fascinated with what happens in Caribbean islands to Americans," Rita Cosby, one of MSNBC's top reporters who covered Holloway's disappearance from the very beginning. "People are fascinated with what happens in these beautiful islands when people come here whether it's to live or for vacation and something goes awry."
Almost two years later and over one thousand miles away, Cosby is on another highly publicized story in a country slightly bigger than Aruba in size and population. However, this case started out a few months before her arrival and involves the well known former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith.
Smith came to The Bahamas to have her second child in the Summer of 2006, however things took quite a tragic turn for the reality TV star when her 20-year-old son died in her Doctors Hospital room just three days after she gave birth to her daughter, Dannielynn Hope.
After news of such a tragedy occurring in The Bahamas circulated both locally and internationally, the small nation of islands was the center focus of much media attention, the likes of which the country has never experienced.
"I know the Bahamian people are ready for all the [international] media to leave," Kaylisa Moss, a Fox network producer said.
However, after Smith's ill-fated death while on a brief trip to Florida nearly three weeks ago the media scrutiny has only gotten more intense, and the country has had to play host to scores of international reporters, who have picked up the story and are now taking it to an unforeseen ending.
"The Bahamas, I think, could be the key area where all of this could be solved," Cosby said. "I talked to a lot of people. The little baby is here, Anna Nicole Smith lived here the last few months of her life and a lot of people are watching to see what the Bahamian court will do because they feel if there is any court that has the jurisdiction to order a DNA test to determine who the father is and therefore (the court has jurisdiction to decide) who should have custody."
Since then, many have worried if The Bahamas will now have a fate similar to that of Aruba, which noted a six percent decline in arrivals in the year 2006. And its has been speculated that the bigger Caribbean nation may follow on the same negative path in which the latter country has trodden.
"If you remember, Aruba took a terrible hit of the coverage surrounding that affair, " Attorney Brian Moree said last night at a public forum on the lessons learned from the Anna Nicole saga. "Aruba is what we call a civil law jurisdiction, which is very different to the common law and to the system in America and because it was so different, I'm not sure the American journalists ever really understood."
In adapting to the Bahamian legal system, members of the international press like Cosby and Moss said they doubt The Bahamas can ever be viewed in the same light as Aruba because at the very beginning some things set the two cases apart.
"I don't think that The Bahamas is going to be marked the way Aruba was marked because it seems as if with that story it was a native who had done something to Natalee Holloway, but here in The Bahamas it's completely different [in that] it's outsiders coming into The Bahamas and this is the place where they landed," Moss, who is also a Bahamian citizen, said.
But when it came to the laws and court proceedings of The Bahamas, as it pertains to a closed custody battle for Smith's baby, Cosby conceded that her coverage of the case was a little more difficult than it would have been in the U S.
"As a journalist [having a closed court and gag order] makes our job much more difficult. I was in Florida watching everything inside the courthouse and everything was so transparent [and] as a journalist that made everything interesting and lively to cover," Cosby said.
She added that she believed The Bahamas could never become like Aruba because, from what she has observed, "the Bahamian government is trying to be fair to all sides. I think they certainly don't want the appearance of anything questionable," Cosby said. " I think Bahamian officials have tried to be very transparent and fair to all sides, and I think in the end The Bahamas is still going to be a sort of shining light in the Caribbean."
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/national_local/310462355876827.php
I was just reading the article I posted. Did you see this?
On 22 June 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert regarding an outbreak in tattoo parlors, after 54 customers developed MRSA from unlicensed tattoo artists.[4]
Rita seems to have not noticed that Shane Gibson, a Bahamas native and govt. official, had to resign due to the scandal. The Bahamas aren't coming out smelling like roses on this.
I've been looking for Inside Edition for two days now. Is it on a major channel? I do get "ET" and "The Insider" at 7 & 7:30 EST, on CBS.
"Aruba is what we call a civil law jurisdiction, which is very different to the common law and to the system in America and because it was so different, I'm not sure the American journalists ever really understood."
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The Aruban corrupted justice system is understood very well.
I have much respect for LEO's for the mosdt part -- but not all deserve it.
Besides, one can be fairly good at their professional and still be a lousy individual.
She's scum. Instead of wondering where her dead daughters body resides, she should worry about the one living on the street.
outbreak in tattoo parlors, after 54 customers developed MRSA from unlicensed tattoo artists.[4]
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OMG don't give HK$ any help - are you connecting this possibility to the fact that ANS had a tatoo in the Bahamas after DL was born?
Thanks for the feedback. This is going to keep headlines for months, if not years.
Me too.
We're all just trying to get to the bottom of this. G-d only knows we're probably doing the best job at putting the facts together and developing theories. This is just one theory based on the "rumor" that Anna may have had MERSA symptoms. But given all the other things that HKS is involved in here, including probably Daniels death, there is plenty for the Feds to work with. Anyway, even if she did have MERSA, wouldn't that be the ideal time for HKS to do the deed?
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