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."

[Howlin]

CNN saying the Hard Rock is on Indian reservation which might have different laws.....

INteresting. Are these guys the hotel bodyguards?

[Uncle Hal]

The two guys claiming to be the father of the little girl are really going to go after each other now. The baby will inherit her estate which could be $50 million or more if she wins the suit against her ex husbands estate. Now that she is dead I do not know where that stands. This is getting weirder and weirder.

[Arizona Carolyn]

But... they are still going over the scene as a "precaution." Don't know where Howard K Stern is right now -- wanna bet on his way back to the bahamas.

[Howlin]

Is this the same county?

[Howlin]

That thought crossed my mind.

[dleecomeback07]

It would be nice if Anna's daughter has the same happy future at least as of right now of Jayne Mansfield's daughter.

If the baby at 40 is where Mariksa Haggirty (sp) is she's in good shape.

[alisasny]

I assume the baby is still in the Bahamas to avoid paternity test as per Anna and her lawyer husband. The baby has probably never set foot in the USA.

SAD.

[rollo tomasi]

RIP

Hope the truth comes out one way or another and hope Anna found the Truth before she passed away.

[Lucky9teen]

Sad and almost surreal. RIP Anna.

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Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 27, 1968.

As a teenager, she worked at a fried chicken restaurant, and married Billy Smith at age 17 in 1985. The same year she had son Daniel Smith, but then divorced Billy and became a single mother in 1987.

Smith worked a string of minimum wage jobs before turning to stripping. She met oil mogul J. Howard Marshall II in 1991 in Houston at a nightclub, where he was a frequent patron and she worked as an exotic dancer.

Smith married Marshall, 63 years older than she, on June 27, 1994. She was 26, he was 89. The age difference sparked criticism and speculation, but Smith defended her marriage.

Smith claimed to be very close to the aging billionaire and that while they loved each other, they married for companionship and his desire to support her rather than the conventional husband and wife lifestyle.

When he died Aug. 4, 1995, Smith's fight with his son E. Pierce Marshall began for her share of the inheritance. She was accompanied by Howard’s other son, whom he’d disowned.

In 2002, she was awarded $88 million, but that was reversed on appeal in 2004 when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed her not one of Marshall's heirs. The Supreme Court decided in 2005 to hear her appeal of that decision.

Her case reached the Supreme Court in February 2006 on the issue of the right of a federal judge to intervene in a state probate case.

Anna won unanimously in a 9-0 vote announced May 1, 2006. She has not won her share of the estate entirely, but rather won the right to fight for it in federal court per the majority opinion written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The case is Marshall v. Marshall, 04-1544.

E. Pierce Marshall, however, died suddenly at the age of 67 due to an unspecified infection on June 20, 2006. The family has stated that they will continue to fight Anna's claims to the fortune.

Other than small roles in movies like "Naked Gun 33 1/3," Smith has appeared mostly in soft-core porn movies. In 2002, E! Entertainment television gave Smith her own reality show called "The Anna Nicole Show" in the spirit of "The Osbournes."

[Jrabbit]

Seminole Police Chief.....Is Seminole a town?

[A Citizen Reporter]

Hollywood Florida is in Broward county.

[Delbert]

whenever I hear of a major news event, or a celebrity death, i usually come to freeper becase there is a good information here and alot of smart well informed people. But the number of venemous people on here at times is quite disgusting...same people pi$$ed me off when George Harrison died,James Brown or anyone else that is a celebrity for that matter. Then they turn around and profess what a christian they are with a holier than thou attitude, and condemn her to hell because of her transgressions. You people that do this make me f'n sick.

[PISANO]

I believe this woman was emotionally little more than a teenager. She was used and was a user and knew nothing about self-sufficiency other than surrounding herself with sugar daddies, handlers and sycophants.

A sad life, and if she has indeed passed and equally sad death!

[WV Mountain Mama]

We need Jim Chee on the case...

[Grizzled Bear]

You must live in a vacuum?
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No; I think Tokra lives in the reality that actually matters.

[ohioWfan]

This is awful. What a sad and empty life.

Prayers for her family, and her baby.

[peridot]

Party time in Hollywood!! The press will be dancing on her grave. Here comes Greta and that lawyer, what'-her name on CNN.