Anna Nicole Smith
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA, 28 November 2020
- Date of Death: 08 February 2021
Meanwhile there were new twists in the legal battle over the paternity of her five-month-old daughter, who could stand to inherit millions.
Dr Josh Perper said physical injury and asphyxiation were ruled out in the six-hour autopsy into Smith’s death, but natural causes and an overdose remained possibilities.
No pills were found in her stomach but Dr Perper said toxicology results were not yet available and until then he could not be sure some kind of drug was not responsible.
Investigators found prescription medication in her sixth-floor room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, but no illegal drugs.
"We do not exclude any kind of contribution of medication to the death," the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office doctor said.
It was a shocking end to an extraordinary soap opera life, which most recently saw the former topless dancer’s 20-year-old son Daniel dying just three days after she gave birth to daughter Dannielyn.
In a new bizarre development, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor claimed that he might be the Dannielynn’s father.
The little girl is already the subject of a paternity battle between Smith’s partner Howard Stern, who is named as the father on the birth certificate, and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead. Dannielynn could inherit millions if her mother’s long-running court fight over the estate of her late oil tycoon husband J Howard Marshall is continued in her name.
Anna Nicole’s mother blames drugs - Feb 9 2007
The mother of former Playboy playmate and model Anna Nicole Smith blamed drugs for her daughter’s sudden death that ended an extraordinary tabloid life at just 39.
"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith’s late son)," her mother, Vergie Arthur, told ABC’s Good Morning America today.
"I tried to warn her about drugs and the people she hung around with. She didn’t listen. She was too drugged up."
Anna Nicole’s attorney, Ron Rale, said the one-time reality TV star had been ill for several days with a fever.
He said she was also still depressed over the death of her 20-year-old son five months earlier from what a private medical examiner determined was a combination of methadone and two antidepressants.
And he said he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.
He dismissed claims her death was related to drugs as "a bunch of nonsense".
"Poor Anna Nicole," he said. "She’s been the underdog. She’s been besieged ... and she’s been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she’s endured."
But Michael Scott, a former attorney for Anna Nicole in the
Actress Anna Nicole Smith dies - Feb 9 2007
Anna Nicole Smith has died after collapsing at a
The 39-year-old former Playboy model was rushed to hospital, but could not be revived.
The star’s lawyer confirmed she had died after being found unresponsive at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino.
Police chief Charlie Tiger said the actress’s private nurse, who found her unconscious, had called the hospital operator from her sixth floor room to summon emergency services at 1.38pm.
At 1.45pm a bodyguard performed CPR on her, then paramedics battled in vain to resuscitate her.
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Although she had aspirations to become ’the next Marilyn Monroe’, Vickie began working at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken where she met her first husband, Billy Wayne Smith. They married when Vickie was just seventeen. The next year she gave birth to their son Daniel and in 1987 seperated from her husband, finding work as an exotic dancer in Houston.
Whilst working as a stripper she met elderly millionaire J. Howard Marshall, with whom she began a relationship despite the sixty three year age gap. In 1994 the couple married amid much tabloid excitement. Marshall died thirteen months later, leaving nothing to his young wife.
In the interim Vickie, now going by the name Anna Nicole Smith, appeared on the front cover of Playboy, being made Playmate of the Year by Hugh Hefner. She bagged a deal with Guess?, replacing supermodel Claudia Schiffer and finding herself a household name. Meanwhile Anna Nicole battled Marshall’s sons in the courts for her share of her late husbands millions, however she was eventually bankrupted and ordered to pay $1million dollars in fees. She was again given the right to fight for her entitlement following the death of her stepson.
Anna Nicole’s acting career was much less publicised than her marriage, although she appeared in high profile films The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3. Her bigger roles came in smaller films such as To The Limit and Skyscraper and on television, appearing as herself in wacky reality TV series The Anna Nicole Show. She later apeared in Be Cool and Wasabi Tuna.
On September 7 2006 Anna Nicole gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, claiming the father was her lawyer Howard K Stern, although her ex boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claimed the child as his. Three days later her son, Daniel, died of an apparent drug overdose while visiting his mother and half sister in hospital. Later that same month Anna Nicole and Howard K Stern exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas.
On February 8 2007, the day after a date for a paternity test on her daughter had been set, Anna Nicole collapsed at a hotel in Florida and later died. An autopsy has yet to determine the cause of death.
updated February 2007
October 2007