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."

[Arizona Carolyn]

Don't you think that is very reminisent of Jayne Mansfield at the height of her career?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It's a startling transformation.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Last night on Greta two different people said when Anna was alone with them without Howard she was amazing and open and funny and as soon as he'd show up she was nervous and jumpy and would get surly.

[sarasota]

Didn't I see on tmz.com that Birkhead has filed a claim on the body?

[TexKat]

Anna Nicole Smith's Alleged Baby Daddy Weeps For a Million Bucks?

[redgirlinabluestate]

Don't you think that is very reminisent of Jayne Mansfield at the height of her career?

Yes! See post # 264 here.

[sodpoodle]

We really need some good investigative reporters to write biographies on all the players/attornies/RX physicians from California, Texas, Myrtle Beach SC, Florida etc.,

I'm getting quite dizzy - pondering that;

Putin may have done it!
Hugo Chavez wanted ANS for himself!
Sultan of Brunei was competin' with Hugo!
The Iranians wanted a news diversion!

It's Arthur Miller Time.

[stlnative]

I saw her on a CNN show (can't remember the name of the show) - she was pretty hard ball. She said they have attys in Florida, California and in the Bahamas actively working on Birkhead's case. She said they are checking out all their options for the best recourse to take.

(my opinion) Right now as it stands they are going to have to file in the Bahamas unless a court in the US can get the Bahama government to work with them. (which is doubtful)

Also I believe that the more claims there are of who fathered this child will only put pressure on the Bahama courts to demand that Stern have the child take in and swabbed for DNA. Once they have the baby's DNA profile they can match it up with any the so called fathers who have come forth and submitted their own DNA to see who is really the baby's father. As it stands Stern is refusing to submit his own DNA. So if none of the so called father's who are coming forth do not match up with the baby's, then Stern will still be in the clear until a match comes forth.

With Stern refusing to submit his own DNA tells me he knows the baby is not his.

[sappy]

Anna Nicole is dead?

[Southerngl]

>>>I saw some guy from Access Hollywood on Greta's show last night and he was trashing ET and Stern; so was Harvey what's his name from TMZ.>>>

Well, from a 'scoop' angle, the guy calling him a (HKS) a sleazeball and liar isn't going to get inside like Steines is. He was already there before with Anna's last interview and it's in his best interest (and ET's) to keep the ball rolling with Stern. All we can do is hope when it's all over, IF he isn't a schmuck, he has some inside information that can HELP the baby and Anna's death investigation.

[Southerngl]

>>>Now I heard the ME wants somebody to claim the body because if they don't, they won't be able to have an open casket, which, of course, means no $$$ for pictures for Stern.>>>

Why no open casket? Is the body rotting out in the open? Can't they freeze it or something?

[stlnative]

Stern does not have to submit his DNA, but the Bahama court can demand that he takes the baby in for DNA testing but they will only do it if someone petitions the Bahama courts claiming they are the baby's father. Stern is presumed the baby's father only until someone else petitions the Bahama courts and that person must be a male who is claiming the child is his.

[Southerngl]

>>>Not to get everyone in a conspiratorial tizzy around here, but did anyone else's ears perk up when the coroner, Dr Perper, listed "poison" as one of the possibilities last night?>>>

Yeah, he said he couldn't rule out 'chemical trauma'.

[sarasota]

Enter Larry Birkhead. Believe he's trying to get the job done--isn't he in the Bahamas now?

[Rte66]

I've been working on an attorney cheat sheet for us, but keep getting sidetracked by life and stuff.

I have 20, plus 8 more I'm trying to track down.

[Southerngl]

>>>He explained that Smith didn't get out of her bed for the celebration — and greeted everybody with a kiss.>>>

First of all, she looked awful smiley for someone who 'couldn't get out of bed', and she was in bed in a bikini top? That's sure what it looked like she had on.

>>>Munroe countered that Daniel died from overdosing on methadone tablets — not the liquid form.>>>

Ok, the methadone wasn't discovered until a later autopsy on Daniel, wouldn't the 'pills' have been discovered in his stomach on initial autopsy? If the pill were there, why the big mystery on how he died and need for a special coronor. If the pills were NOT there and only found out through blood test, how would this guy know in WHAT form they were ingested unless he knows something we don't.

Does anyone know?

[Rte66]

He and Opri started doing that in December in The Bahamas, but it wasn't as clear then about the house ownership and the fraudulent claims to citizenship.

[stlnative]

Thank GOD! - Their best option is to petition the Bahama courts for the baby's DNA. Stern cannot deny it if the Bahama court orders it to be done. I think Birkhead has enough witnesses including emails that Anna sent to friends saying that Birkhead was baby's father.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Good, please ping me when you post. I started one two days ago, but neglected to add to it yesterday, and now I'm hopelessly behind.

Who is the female HK$ attorney in FL? FNC has said that the ME faxed an affidavit to "her" with questions.

[Rte66]

Nov. 2 interview with Wecht - doesn't say tablet form, tho - they were stonewalling him.

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"... Amid this drama, Smith, 38, remained in the hospital in the Bahamas Thursday, Munroe said. The TrimSpa endorser was recuperating in the same facility where she gave birth--and where her adult son, Daniel, died Sept. 10 of what a family-retained pathologist termed an accidental overdose of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro.

New reports that seven drugs--and not just the previously identified three--had been detected in Daniel Smith's system were dismissed Thursday by the same private pathologist.

Dr. Cyril Wecht said that while, yes, a total of seven drugs turned up in the lab results, only methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro were present in toxic, killer amounts.

"There was some Benadryl, and some Sudafed, both in sub-therapeutic levels, and they don't do anything," Wecht said of two of the other detected drugs.

Benadryl is an over-the-counter allergy medicine; Sudafed is an over-the-counter nasal decongestant.

Also found in Daniel Smith, according to Wecht, were trace amounts of Elavil, the brand name for the antidepressant Amitriptyline, and a fourth drug which the pathologist declined to identify, citing confidentiality.

"It's not for venereal disease," Wecht said in an aside.

If the additional drugs in Daniel Smith's system weren't news to Wecht--and he says they weren't--then that doesn't mean he's not puzzled by the presence of one of the drugs: the methadone.

A narcotic prescribed as a painkiller or a heroin-addiction salve, Wecht said he still doesn't know how, why or where Daniel Smith got it.

"It's a question that continues to vex me," Wecht said. "I have asked a thousand and one times, and I haven't received [an answer]."
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