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."

[TexKat]

Florida Officials Investigate In Nassau

By Quincy Parker While the spectacle surrounding the estate and offspring of the late Anna Nicole Smith continues to linger on the dockets of the Bahamas Supreme Court, the investigation into her sudden death has also moved to Nassau, and continued almost unobserved.

Ms. Smith died after she collapsed alone in a room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on February 9. The cause of her death is unknown.

Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger was in Nassau on Monday and Tuesday conducting what a Seminole Police Department spokesperson called "a non-criminal investigation into (Ms. Smith’s) death."

It appears that Chief Tiger was first seen in Nassau on Monday night, in the company of a team from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s office and a Bahamian police officer. His office confirmed that he returned to Florida on Tuesday afternoon.

Bahamas Chief Superintendent Hulan Hanna told the Journal this was in fact the case.

"I can confirm that the police chief from the Seminole County (Tribal) Police Department along with some of his colleagues were here in The Bahamas. They have since left. In fact they left [on Tuesday]. The principal [reason] for them coming was to collaborate with the Bahamian police officers in their attempt and as well as our attempts to complete the investigations into the Anna Nicole Smith affair," Mr. Hanna told the Journal.

The senior police officer remained cryptic as to what precisely the officers were investigating, but said that the investigation was wide-ranging.

"The whole thing had to do generally with everything that related to the unfortunate death of the lady and matters surrounding her stay here in The Bahamas and any lead that they thought that we might have been able to help them complete; that is why they came," he added.

"We looked at everything. Everything was on the table, but again, because of certain sensitive aspects of the investigation we would be less than prudent to comment publicly."

Asked specifically about the allegations that Ms. Smith’s California doctor had mailed her methadone, Mr. Hanna confirmed that it is illegal to either import or export that particular drug into or out of The Bahamas.

"Anyone who seeks to send them to this country or to export them from this country has committed a criminal offence, but again, these matters have to be properly and thoroughly investigated," he said.

"Let me say that everything that has come to our attention, that we have concluded is worthy of our investigation, we have looked at everything and we continue to look at everything.

"And so, [as far as] the collaboration, they needed our assistance, and where we needed their assistance we have sought their help and we have been getting that from them."

And officials from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s office – sources say "a doctor associate and an investigator" – were in The Bahamas on Monday to continue their investigation into Ms. Smith’s death. They also apparently left the country Tuesday afternoon.

The Journal understands that the Broward County Medical Examiner’s officials spoke with doctors at Doctors Hospital, where Ms. Smith gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn Hope on September 7, and where her son Daniel died suddenly a few days later while visiting.

It was Daniel Smith’s bizarre sudden death that kicked off the media frenzy that has enveloped Ms. Smith and her estate here in The Bahamas, with suspicions of foul play allayed by assertions from celebrity pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht.

Dr. Wecht asserted that in his opinion, Daniel Smith’s death was a tragic accident, and in no way did the evidence suggest a homicide or any other foul play.

One insider said the Broward County Medical Examiner’s representatives requested documents from Doctors Hospital as part of their "continuing due diligence," and that the documents were supplied as requested.

A coroner’s inquest into Daniel Smith’s death, which is set for March 27, is expected to go forward as planned.

[uncitizen]

A coroner’s inquest into Daniel Smith’s death, which is set for March 27, is expected to go forward as planned.

Will Wecht be there to testify? He could uuuhh and ummmm them into submission.

[TexKat]

The disputed Horizons mansion where the late American celebrity Anna Nicole Smith lived. (AP Photo)

Disputed Horizons Mansion Up For Sale

By Quincy Parker

South Carolina real estate mogul G. Ben Thompson has put the $950,000 Eastern Road mansion where the late Anna Nicole Smith lived on the market, and is hoping to get as much as $10 million for the property.

Mr. Thompson’s Bahamian lawyer, Godfrey ‘Pro’ Pinder, disclosed that information on Tuesday, and told the Journal that with all the publicity surrounding the water-front estate known as Horizons, his client thinks the property could possibly be worth $20 million in six months.

However, the ownership of the residence is disputed, and has been the subject of an increasingly complex legal battle for months.

A senior, uninvolved lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous due to the high profile nature of the case, took a dim view of the attempt to sell the house.

"Impossible," the lawyer said. "Anyone who bought it would be buying the lawsuit."

According to that lawyer, it would be "silly" for someone to hand over cash for the residence, since the person wouldn’t be able to take possession of the property unless Mr. Thompson is successful in the court battle over the estate.

Wayne Munroe, lawyer for Ms. Smith’s estate, didn’t think it was impossible, but he said that whoever would seek to purchase the house would do so with full knowledge of the lawsuit.

"[It would] take a brave person to buy it from him," he said. "I’ll put it to you like this: I could sell Government House to somebody if they were willing to purchase it from me. What they would discover is (that) what they have purchased, they don’t have title to.

"So whoever were to purchase Horizons would do so subject to the action, and so as a conveyancor, it would be a brave conveyancor who would suggest that he has good and marketable title. That would be a matter for anyone who is willing to purchase Horizons, because the fact of the lawsuit is well known."

Mr. Munroe reiterated that it is indeed possible for Mr. Thompson to "sell" someone property that is the subject of an action.

"What you will get is just that – property that is subject to an action. And so, what will then happen is that if the party that you bought from loses in the action, you get nothing," he said.

"So you could, as it were, buy a chance."

The element of chance is introduced because any potential buyer of the Horizons residence only gets the house if Mr. Thompson wins the lawsuit. If the other side wins, the house would be a part of Anna Nicole Smith’s estate, and anyone who bought the house from Mr. Thompson would be the owner of nothing.

In a court hearing on Monday, Supreme Court Senior Justice Anita Allen adjourned the matter until March 14, when she has set aside an entire day to hear arguments in this matter, beginning with whether the actions brought by Anna Nicole Smith survive her death.

In the meantime, the two injunctions in place continue – Ms. Smith’s lawyers secured the first injunction while she was alive to prevent Mr. Thompson or his associates from setting foot on the property until further order.

Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Thompson granted the second injunction to lawyers from Ms. Smith’s estate the day after the controversial Bahamas permanent resident died suddenly in a Florida casino hotel room.

The second injunction was secured to reinforce the first one, which was secured in order to preserve the status quo pending completion of the litigation in the dispute of ownership of Horizons.

Lawyers for Ms. Smith’s estate felt it necessary to get the second injunction because Mr. Thompson’s associates – specifically his son-in-law Ford Shelley among others – broke the first injunction by entering the premises after she died to "secure" items from within the residence.

[Rte66]

Just despicable. "Hire" (ha ha) attorneys to help keep poor widdle Anna from having to pay for a house to live in, then don't pay the atty's, so they quit and a whole new team has to be reacquainted with the case and lots of stays and postponements can be instigated ... and now, here we are, more than 4 months later.

Still trying to get poor dead Anna's estate somethin' for nothin'.

[Southerngl]

So let me get this straight. If you die on Seminole land, and there is not obvious signs of murder IE: Gunshot wounds, ligature marks, stab wounds, and no obvious signs of overdose, it's automatically NOT assumed to be a criminal death??

Hmmm, I wonder if my ex-husband would mind taking a trip with me to the Hard Rock Casino in a few weeks.

[windchime]

Was ANS making a statement with the sunglasses?

According to LB's testimony, their last blow-up was centered around the purchase of sunglasses.

He said he was concerned about invoicing some photos and she wanted sunglasses. He called HKS to pick her up (at the hairdresser?) because he didn't want to leave her alone. I think he said that was the last time he saw her.

[Sacajaweau]

Poor Anna???? I feel sorry that she lost her son. But she created a "mess" BEFORE that happened.

I'm not sure what I would do if I found out that my daughter was working in a strip club and associating with that crowd. And going after the Marshall fortune?? That was just plain greed. He gave her quite a bit for this brief relationship. Wonder why there was no pre-nup....or was there one and it was destroyed.

Haven't seen anything where Anna offered Virgie any compensation for watching Daniel for 6 years while she was learning the "tramp" profession.

To lose a grandson is hard enough. To lose a grandson and daughter is a pain that will last for the last of Virgie's life. I have a deep respect for her because she's got the guts to go after a very nasty, well-connected, clever man to claim her rights as a grandmother.

[uncitizen]

The sunglasses were to cover up any dilation or whatever of her pupils that occurs when you're high. Probably that was why. Altho surely she had some other sunglasses. Maybe she didn't want to be seen wearing the same ones twice.

[Sacajaweau]

That's still one BIG thing that bothers me. There was no dress "in the process" for the supposed REAL wedding. I'm trying to find where SHE said they were going to get married in two weeks. And they would have applied for a license, too.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Wouldn't Larry need a lot of money as well to fight for Dannielynn here in the States? (if Bahamas granted Virgie custody).

[Arizona Carolyn]

As far as I know one of his sisters has been with him through all of this.

[A Citizen Reporter]

I have some questions that occured to me as I was watching LKL last night. LKL included a clip from ET's "Exclusive" interview with HK$ after the ruling yesterday.

How is it "exclusive" if LKL airs it before ET does?

We know that ET pays HK$ for "images" and "exclusives"....now is money somehow going to LKL?

Here is the transcript from last nights show.

[Arizona Carolyn]

HKS, the new guest commentator on ET

ROTFLOL

[windchime]

Very likely she did need them to hide the tell-tale signs of drug use. But in the picture in Post #18962, the baby not ANS, is wearing the sunglasses. PennsylvaniaMom also noted that they were hanging all around a lampshade in the background. Unusual.

I just thought she might have been exhibiting a mean streak.

[Rte66]

Yeah, those were just the sofa sunglasses. When she happened to waltz across the living room to her chaise longue, there were more sunglasses on yet another lampshade for wearing "over there."

Such is the life of a "starlet" - as some of the news accounts call her.

[Rte66]

An agency films the interview and then licenses it out to various production companies.

They can take one 5-minute videotape and cut it up into myriad different angles and parts, with sound or without. In news, those are "A" rolls and "B" rolls, but not sure what they call them in infotainment production.

Then they make their money by every time that footage airs. The "big boys" are their repeat customers, such as ET, which might put them on a retainer for guaranteed footage with their own interviewer.

As we've seen, for example, CBS Paramount produces both The Insider and ET - and they split up the key interviews, making it seem like Pat O'Brien is there when he sometimes isn't and then making it seem like Mark Steines is there when he sometimes isn't.

Then there are all the other little pieces of the footage that the agency gets paid for. An "exclusive" means someone paid more for it than anyone else and they get more of the footage.

Anyway, ET airs before Larry King, so it wasn't "first" on LKL - however, it could have been. Like if they had faked a funeral scene and then there wasn't a funeral, like if HKS dropped dead today or something, they'd be out of luck on their fake footage of HKS standing over ANS's grave, see?

LKL just paid a royalty fee for the footage and was only allowed so many seconds of it.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Thanks very much for that explanation. The reason I thought that LKL aired it before ET, was that I didn't think I had seen Stern reacting to the appeals ruling on ET last night. But maybe I didn't see the whole thing.

[spectre]

"Just speculation on my part - but they have ANS' DNA and obviously Larry's. They must want some type of official order so that chain of custody of DNA will be assured."

OMG,,it JUST occured to me, and I don't know if anyone else mentioned it yet, but here goes.

NOW we know the reason Howard wouldn't let Virgie HOLD, touch or come close to the baby...DNA!!!

They've covered all their bases..

sw

[A Citizen Reporter]

Correct. HK$ said he wouldn't let her touch the baby without a court order.

[sodpoodle]

I am terrified that if Larry is prevented from getting a DNA sample from the baby and never gets to prove he is the father - HK$ is home free.

We are counting on the Bahamanian courts to agree to a paternity test on Dannielynn. NO GUARANTEES THERE.