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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."
Sorry about that.
Wecht will "assume" anything you want if the price is right.
I wonder if HKS ever considered having the song "Goodbye Norma Jean" played at the funeral (substituting Vicki Lynn for Norma Jean of course)?
half kidding.
Oh, WOW! I had no idea Daniel's death involved so much public controversy. (Posts 21403 thru 21406)
With the open use of words like cover-up and homicide, the inquest this month was going to get a lot of scrutiny. Could HKS risk his future on ANS' answers to questions? Would HKS be allowed at her side during the inquiry to 'guide' her?
Thanx for that WCG.
That site is either running slow, be patient....or it's my computer not sure.
Just Who Received The $10,000 Cheque
posted by newsadmin
When Anna Nicole Smith's fast-tracked residence certificate made the headlines someone familiar with the security checks required for such applications told us it was "absolulely impossible" to complete the checks and issue the certificate in three weeks.
However, as a result of what Prime Minister Christie has referred to as "new records of efficiency" being introduced in the Immigration Department, Ms Smith's certificate was issued exactly 21 working days after an application was submitted to the department an Friday, August 11.
On Monday, August 14, an Immigration Department official called to set up an interview for the next day at the Eastern Road residence of Ms Smith - who also goes under the names of Mrs Vickie Lynn Marshall, Jane Brown, Michelle Chase and Anna M Smith.
On September 11, the Director of Immigration wrote a letter to Ms Tracy Ferguson, junior partner in Callenders and Co -- who had been instructed to submit the application on Mrs Vicki Lynn Marshall's behalf informing Ms Ferguson that Ms Marshall's residence permit had been approved "without the right to work."
However, although this letter was addressed to the Callender law firm, it was never sent to Callenders. It was only when Ms Smith/Marshall called the firm on September 20, giving instructions that a $10,000 cheque be delivered to her home by 7 o'clock that evening for Immigration Minister Shane Gibson that Callenders learned that the residence certificate had been granted.
On September 20, Ms Ferguson herself drove to Ms Smith/Marshall's home, where she says she saw Mr Gibson in the living room. Ms Ferguson was shown into the bedroom where she gave the envelope to Ms Smith. As Ms Smith opened the envelope her lawyer-boyfriend ushered Mr Gibson into the bedroom. Ms Smith handed Mr Gibson the cheque. The young lawyer from Callenders then left "Horizons."
The next day, September 21, the Permanent Secretary called Callenders, spoke with a senior partner and asked Callenders to send Immigration the $10,000 cheque. There was a surprised reaction when she was told that the cheque had been delivered the night before to Minister Gibson. It was then suggested that she look in the Minister's office, where it is understood the cheque was eventually discovered.
Mr Michael Scott, the law partner, then told the Permanent Secretary that not only did his firm no longer have the cheque, but that it had never received immigration's letter which informed the firm that residency had been approved. She was asked to fax the letter, dated September 11, which she did. The original of the approval letter did not arrive, at Callenders until October 9.
The Tribune has in its possession a copy of the $10,000 cheque dated September 20, a copy of the permanent secretary's fax sending Immigration's Sept. 11 letter of approval - dated September 21 - and the cancelled cheque with the Bahamas Immigration accounts stamp dated September 22.
When the unusual Sequence of events became public, Bahamians wanted to know why a government minister would interfere with the duties of the Immigration Department, and why he would personally accept a cheque on behalf of that department.
On September 25 an indignant Minister Gibson "let it be known for public information that no cheque was ever personally collected by" him or delivered by him or to him "in connection with Ms Anna Nicole Smith." He said that "anything to the contrary is a vicious lie conceived in ignorance and spread in wickedness by the FNM."
Surprisingly, Prime Minister Christie, a man noted for being slow to make a decision or commit himself to any position, once again jumped to the defence of his minister. It was obviously a repeat performance of the Keod Smith-Kenyatta Gibson episode when, acting on incomplete information, Mr Christie put himself in a politically embarrassing position.
And so at the opening of the first phases of Excellence Estates on September 25, Mr Christie declared: "You can't have it on the front page of newspapers that my minister picked up a cheque when it's a lie, outrageous lie."
However, later rumours are even more disturbing. An unconfirmed report is now making the rounds that the young lawyer is being pressured to change her story about the delivery of the cheque to Horizons. If this report is true, it is very serious. If not true. it should be denied immediately.
In the meantime, the public is entitled to the truth. We urge the Opposition to ask for the appointment of a select committee with powers to send for persons and papers and get to the bottom of this most irregular affair. And when the truth is discovered we agree - with Minister Gibson that if there has been any breach, the guilty should be "dealt with to the fullest extent of the law."
Editorial from The Tribune
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/story.php?title=Just-Who-Received-10000-Cheque
She's absolutely ADOREABLE! I have this feeling, based on no facts ok, that Anna was really wanting to get her life together for this little girl after losing her son. And HKS naturally wouldn't want that at all.
29th December
A Year of Controversy: The Anna Nicole Saga
By Quincy Parker (The Bahama Journal)
It began with a single mother supposedly fleeing to relative anonymity in The Bahamas to escape the clutches of the US paparazzi and has snowballed into a globally-watched controversy that has ensnared the attention of many.
Vicky Lynn Hogan Marshall, alias Anna Nicole Smith et al, has been a lightning rod for gossip since she was a Guess! Jeans model, then a Playboy Playmate, then the star of her own reality television show.
She’s been the butt of nasty jokes, and hailed as a role model for so-called gold-diggers after inheriting close to half a billion dollars from her late husband, oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall. He was 89, and she was 26 when they wed.
She came to The Bahamas, some say, to escape all the attention.
Others, less charitable, say she came to the Bahamas to escape Larry Birkhead, another former lover who insists he’s the father of Miss Smith’s newborn baby Dannielynn Hope, and possibly Mr. Birkhead’s potential claim on the hundreds of millions of dollars Ms. Smith inherited from her deceased husband.
The paternity of little Dannielynn was unknown for days after her birth, until Ms. Smith’s lawyer-turned-lover Howard K. Stern announced on CNN’s Larry King Live that he was the little girl’s father.
Few know how long she’d been in The Bahamas prior to the tragic and stunning events that made her presence here fodder for tabloid and news copy.
The birth of her daughter, however, was completely overshadowed by the sudden, unexplained death of her son, Daniel Wayne, on September 10.
From that wretched event, the tentacles of scandal have spread to enmesh the political establishment at the highest levels – even the prime minister got involved.
It did not stop with a certain Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister; in fact, the controversy engulfed the judiciary, the police, the Bahamas Bar Council, and certain areas of the public service.
The scrutiny Miss Smith may have sought to escape were once again turned on her without mercy. The controversy began with the death of Daniel Wayne, whose lifeless body was discovered in his mother’s second-floor private room at Doctors Hospital with narry a mark or any other sign of foul play on it.
Celebrity pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht was hired by Ms. Smith’s lawyer – at the time, Michael Scott of Callenders and Co. – to conduct an independent autopsy. Having done so, Dr. Wecht revealed that Daniel died from complications due to the interaction of three separate drugs in his system: two prescription anti-depressants, only one of which he was prescribed, and methadone, a drug used to treat heroin addiction.
"There’s no way in the world that anybody could, in my opinion, consider this to be a homicide or a suicide," Dr. Wecht told the Journal from his Florida residence.
"This young man was thrilled to death to be holding his little baby sister in his mother’s room that night. It’s an accident. The manner of death is accidental, a tragic, tragic accident."
Assistant Commissioner of Police Reginald Ferguson was the point man on the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s cross-border investigation into Daniel’s death. He told the Journal months ago that the police had concluded that investigation and the file sent to the Office of the Attorney General.
However, Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson told us the file had been returned to the police for further investigation. There has been no word since on the final disposition of the investigation, and no word on whether or not there will be a Coroner’s Inquest into the affair.
ACP Ferguson has said that a coroner’s inquest is perhaps the only way to get to the bottom of the matter now.
Speaking of a Coroner’s Inquest, it has been argued by some that the Daniel Smith matter led to the dismantling of the Coroner’s Court.
Days after Chief Coroner Linda Virgill gave an impromptu press conference, at which she labeled Daniel’s death suspicious and announced that she would hold an inquest beginning October 23, Chief Justice Sir Burton Hall issued a directive stripping Mrs. Virgill of the exclusive designation of coroner and reverting to the pre-1993 practice of having all magistrates in the pool hearing coroners’ matters. The Journal can confirm that this practice has not yet begun.
Magistrate Virgill has remained tight-lipped about the whole affair, but we have confirmed that she continues to hear coroner’s cases on a daily basis in the same manner as she did before Sir Burton’s ruling.
Anna Nicole Smith’s legal woes have been almost constant since Daniel’s death. While she was waiting for the verdict on Daniel’s death, Ms. Smith was living in Horizons, a million-dollar ocean-front mansion along the Eastern Road once owned by infamous Canadian developer Ron H. Kelly.
Suddenly questions were being asked about Ms. Smith’s permanent residency, which Immigration Minister Shane Gibson confirmed that she received in three weeks. The Cabinet minister’s involvement has continued to draw comment from many quarters of society, such as Opposition FNM Leader Hubert Ingraham. And, following Mr. Gibson’s remark that he knew Ms. Smith personally, questions were asked from many quarters as to whether the minister used undue influence in granting her status.
"He, a minister in the Cabinet of The Bahamas, is in and out of her hospital room when she went to have a baby; he volunteers to escort the car carrying her home from Doctors Hospital; he instructs Immigration to process her application speedily; he couldn’t even wait for the minutes of the Cabinet meeting to be prepared before having the letter of approval written, but he did that with the concurrence of the Prime Minister," Mr. Ingraham told an FNM rally in November.
"He insists that the letter of approval be given to him and not to the law firm that made the application; and he personally receives the cheque for payment of the fee in Anna Nicole’s bedroom. And as I told Parliament…he lyin’ about it."
Minister Gibson vehemently denies that he personally accepted the cheque for Ms. Smith’s permanent residency fee, as does Ms. Smith’s new lawyer, Wayne Munroe.
However, Mr. Munroe was part of a team representing Ms. Smith at the time, and the other lawyer on that team, Michael Scott, says the minister did collect the cheque.
On the matter of the ownership of the Horizons residence, Ms. Smith claims that yet another former lover, South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson, bought her the house as a gift.
Mr. Thompson disputes that claim, arguing that he doesn’t have a million dollars to give as a gift. He says he bought her the house with the understanding that she would take out a mortgage on it to pay him back.
"The money was never intended as a gift. The first time we heard the word gift was when Anna used it. The money was a loan. All the money to facilitate the purchase of the house came from us, she doesn’t have a penny in that house. The remodeling of the house, a new air conditioner put in; quite a bit of money was spent, it’s been inferred by Mr. Munroe, that she did all these upgrades to the house," Mr. Thompson said at a press conference he gave in The Bahamas.
"She’s done nothing. We’ve paid painters, electricians, heat and air people, plumbers, generator people, everybody. Only thing I know that she could have paid, she’s probably been paying the maid since we stopped paying her."
The battle for ownership of the residence occasioned heated and increasingly partisan debate about the speed with which Ms. Smith was granted permanent residency.
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Immigration and the Director of Immigration all insisted that she was granted status on the basis of her ownership of the home. If it is proven that she did not own the home at the time her status was granted, tough questions must be answered. Even up to December, Minister Gibson was forced to answer questions in the House of Assembly about Ms. Smith’s permanent residency. Instead of addressing the matter directly, the minister lashed out at the FNM for having granted status to a number of men now in jail, beginning with Martin Tremblay.
"But now they trying to make this big hullabaloo saying that Vicky Lynn Marshall application was fast-tracked. How could you tell me if the Immigration Board led by Hubert Alexander Ingraham was able to approve this in 19 days, how could you say that Vicky Lynn Marshall was fast-tracked in three weeks? You talkin’ 12 years later," he told the House.
"My point is listen to the trend – Martin Tremblay? In jail. Derrick Turner? In jail. Viktor Kozeny? In jail. Vicky Lynn Marshall? Home relaxing."
Prime Minister Christie even used the occasion of the opening of a housing subdivision to stake his personal credibility on the line in defence of Mr. Gibson’s innocence. This following the debacle of two of Mr. Christie’s Parliamentary team – Keod Smith and Kenyatta Gibson – having a physical altercation in the Cabinet room following a Parliamentary meeting.
"But I have a government where if people are qualified for a particular privilege and my minister has the good order and is effective enough to give it to them in one week or in one month, I salute him," the prime minister asserted.
"Because he’s acting in accordance with the law, he’s acting in accordance with the policy and he’s demonstrating a level of efficiency in government that cause people to question as to whether or not you so efficient, man you must be doing something crooked."
Questions continue to swirl around Anna Nicole Smith and her status in The Bahamas. Questions remain unanswered about the circumstances under which Daniel Smith died. Questions, asked in private conversation but asked nonetheless, continue to abound about the paternity of Dannielynn Hope Stern.
Answers, in the various matters Anna Nicole Smith continues to deal with, appear to be slow in coming.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=11014
People are reinterred all the time. It's usually because NOW there is a larger family site available. It happens every day.
1st November
Anna Nicole Fights For Bahamas House
Mr. Munroe also commented to the lawsuit filed against Ms. Smith by Larry Birkhead, the photographer who claims to be Ms. Smith’s baby’s father and wants to compel Ms. Smith to produce the child for DNA samples.
He pointed out that Alexiou Knowles and Co. has filed a lawsuit in The Bahamas on behalf of Debra Opri, Mr. Birkhead’s lawyer. Mr. Munroe said the writ as filed contained certain "deficiencies" – he did not specify what – that he intended to write to Alexiou Knowles and Co. and "invite them to cure."
"Because it’s in no lawyer’s interest to tie up the court in unnecessary applications, so where there is a deficiency in documents, files, the proper thing to do is write to the other side and invite them to bring them in compliance," he said.
"The one thing the chap does not sue for in The Bahamas is paternity testing, which is odd. He is suing for defamation he says; he is suing for an order that the Registrar General change the entry in the Register of Births and Deaths; he is suing for damages for something or the other that I don’t quite understand."
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10432
TK
This really is a Bananna Republic!
Nothing should surprise us.....HK$ is getting away with murder in two sovereign nations...too bad one of them is the USA.
http://www.bahamascommunity.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=618&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40
Thanks WestCoastGal for all the slideshows.
This is what I found to be interesting in my last post...
ACP Ferguson has said that a coroner’s inquest is perhaps the only way to get to the bottom of the matter now.
Speaking of a Coroner’s Inquest, it has been argued by some that the Daniel Smith matter led to the dismantling of the Coroner’s Court.
Days after Chief Coroner Linda Virgill gave an impromptu press conference, at which she labeled Daniel’s death suspicious and announced that she would hold an inquest beginning October 23, Chief Justice Sir Burton Hall issued a directive stripping Mrs. Virgill of the exclusive designation of coroner and reverting to the pre-1993 practice of having all magistrates in the pool hearing coroners’ matters. The Journal can confirm that this practice has not yet begun.
Magistrate Virgill has remained tight-lipped about the whole affair, but we have confirmed that she continues to hear coroner’s cases on a daily basis in the same manner as she did before Sir Burton’s ruling.
22nd December
Fight Intensifies For House Where Anna Nicole Lives
By Candia Dames
Attorney Godfrey "Pro" Pinder, who represents American developer G. Ben Thompson, on Thursday withdrew a judgment in default of appearance that had been entered by Emerick Knowles, Mr. Thompson’s former attorney.
In Mr. Pinder’s view, this clears the way for him to apply for summary judgment and a writ of possession he hopes will end in the court declaring Mr. Thompson the legal owner of Horizons, the Eastern Road house at the centre of controversy engulfing American celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, aka Vickie Lynn Marshall.
Ms. Smith has reportedly asserted that the house was a gift from Mr. Thompson, a man she reportedly had a brief relationship with, but he has said that Ms. Smith had committed to signing a mortgage and or a promissory note to pay him back.
The attorneys involved in the matter appeared on Thursday before Deputy Registrar Ernie Wallace who put the case off to January 19.
Mr. Knowles had entered the judgment in default of appearance after Ms. Smith’s attorneys reportedly failed to respond to a writ he filed on November 3 seeking a declaration that Mr. Thompson owns Horizons.
His writ came three days after Ms. Smith’s attorney, Wayne Munroe, filed a writ seeking "a declaration by virtue of an indenture of conveyance dated the 6th day of August, 2006 made between Ronald H. Kelly of the first part, George Clifford Culmer of the second part and the plaintiff Vickie Lynn Marshall of the third part, she is the legal and beneficial owner of the property."
On Thursday, Mr. Munroe sought an order suspending the judgment in default of appearance, but as the judgment in default was set aside, his order was no longer necessary.
The case is being closely watched as immigration officials have said that Ms. Smith was granted permanent residency because she bought a million dollar house in The Bahamas.
The matter has also been discussed in the House of Assembly several times with Immigration Minister Shane Gibson defending his ministry, and insisting that Ms. Smith’s application was given special attention because she was an economic applicant, and it is not unusual for the government to do this.
But he has faced pressure from political opponents who accused him of not carrying out the necessary due diligence because he had befriended Ms. Smith.
Minister Gibson told The Bahama Journal when the controversy erupted that he knows Ms. Smith personally, although he never used the word ‘friend’ to characterize their involvement.
There were reports in the US media this week that Ms. Smith has returned to the United States.
The Associated Press said she was at the federal court in San Francisco to continue to fight for some of her elderly late husband’s millions.
While in San Francisco, Smith’s attorney and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, was served with papers demanding he appear in a Los Angeles court, the Associated Press also reported.
It said the appearance is connected to the lawsuit by Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Ms. Smith who says he’s the father of her infant daughter.
The baby’s birth certificate lists Stern as the father. Birkhead wants the baby’s DNA tested.
Ms. Smith’s daughter was born in early September at Doctors Hospital on Shirley Street. Her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died on September 10 while visiting his mother and baby sister in the hospital.
Since then, Ms. Smith has continued to grab headlines, both in the Bahamas and internationally.
Mr. Stern has said that she has made the Bahamas her home.
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10979
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