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So many different versions of what happened. One does not know what to believe. Was she found in the bed, on the floor or what?
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Anna Nicole Is Dead

By Quincy Parker

Controversial Bahamas permanent resident and embattled celebrity Anna Nicole Smith has died in circumstances that are shrouded in the same uncertainty that surrounded much of the last six months or so of her life.
She collapsed in a hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and was discovered at around 1:45 pm on Thursday, according to authorities.

Captain Fitzgerald of Hollywood Fire and Rescue explained what he found at the scene.

"Seminole Rescue was attempting CPR at the time. Hollywood Rescue stepped in and took over the scene, and intubated the patient – that means put the tube down her throat," said Mr. Fitzgerald, whose first name was not given.

"We started an IV, we pushed all the medications, we attempted ‘pacing’ her – which would be an external pacemaker for the heart – and we had electrical capture, but no mechanical capture, which means we couldn’t get her heart beating."

Captain Fitzgerald said his crew was told that Ms. Smith had been left alone an undetermined amount of time before she was discovered on the floor of her hotel room.

It appears that her bodyguard discovered her, and alerted Ms. Smith’s private nurse, who called for help. When the rescue squad arrived, according to Captain Fitzgerald, Howard K. Stern (Ms. Smith’s partner and attorney) was present as were the bodyguard and nurse.

Captain Fitzgerald explained that among the medications paramedics gave Ms. Smith was Narcan, which he said was "for any chance of overdose," and epinephrine – an adrenaline booster to get the heart going.

He said Ms. Smith did not respond to anything the paramedics did.

"All the agencies worked together as well as we could have, given the circumstances. There was just no way of knowing how long she’d been down before she was discovered, which could make all the difference in the world," he said.

Eyewitnesses at Memorial Hospital in Florida, where she was rushed to, reported that Ms. Smith was dead on arrival.

She died five months after her son, Daniel Smith, who died at Doctors Hospital in New Providence while visiting his mother, who had just given birth to a daughter.

The shroud of mystery clouding the last months of Ms. Smith’s life now spreads to include the last minutes of her life as well – questions remain about whether she was abusing drugs when she died, or whether she committed suicide or whether her death was accidental.

As indicated, it is not clear how long Ms. Smith had been left alone, but it appears that her companions had all gone to take possession of a 35-foot yacht she and Mr. Stern had purchased weeks ago.

Reports say the group was supposed to sail the yacht back to The Bahamas, where Ms. Smith has lived since sometime before she gave birth to her months-old daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

Suggestions that Ms. Smith was abusing drugs, and that drugs may have played a part in her death continue to surface.

Ron Rale, Ms. Smith’s California lawyer who is representing her in the litigation with Larry Birkhead (who claims to be the father of her baby), said the news was shocking. He spoke with a newsperson from his California offices in the minutes after the news of Ms. Smith’s death.

Mr. Rale said he’d been concerned over Ms. Smith’s physical state in recent times.

"I have been concerned because I don’t think anybody should have to endure what she’s endured, having lost her son and people attacking her left and right…I don’t know what the cause was, but I felt like Anna was the underdog having all of this thrust upon her and she really just wanted to be a mom. She was a good mom, and this is tragic," he said.

On Tuesday, Ms. Smith and TrimSpa – the diet products company for which she was the spokesperson – were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging that their marketing of a weight loss pill was false or misleading.

That action came just a day before a California judge ordered Ms. Smith to submit Dannielynn Hope to DNA testing to determine whether Mr. Birkhead is her father, as the photographer who is reportedly Ms. Smith’s ex-lover continues to claim.

And those actions are on top of at least three separate legal actions that enmeshed Ms. Smith in The Bahamas – she sued Callenders and Co. law firm, her first lawyers in The Bahamas, for breach of duty, but they responded with a counter-suit for what they claim are unpaid legal fees.

That is in addition to the legal action initiated by yet another reported former lover, South Carolina developer Ben Thompson, who has sued for a declaration that he owns the house in which Ms. Smith had been staying.

If Mr. Thompson wins, it makes the grounds on which Ms. Smith was granted permanent residency in The Bahamas void.

Ms. Smith was scheduled to be a key witness in an inquest set for next month in Nassau into the death of her son.

What the fate of all these proceedings will be now that Ms. Smith is dead remains to be seen, as does the fate of little Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

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