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DaveM
02-08-2007, 03:23 PM
According to CNN, Anna Nicole Smith collapsed and died in a Florida casino roughly 2 hours ago. Cause of death is unknown (right). CNN stated that they will "keep you abreast of the situation". No kidding.
There are times when one simply does not know whether to grieve or break out in hysterical laughter.
Anna Nicole Smith dead, lawyer says (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/02/08/smith-dies.html)
Thursday, February 8, 2007 | 4:12 PM ET
A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith says she has died.
Smith was rushed to hospital Thursday while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, hotel officials said. Hospital staff said she was unresponsive.
Smith, 38, is the former Playboy playmate who married oil tycoon J. Marshall Howard, 89, after meeting him at a strip club.
Howard, who used a wheelchair, died after 14 months and Smith began a continuing legal battle over his estate with his son, E. Pierce Marshall, who died last June.
In September 2006, her 20-year-old son Daniel Wayne Smith died suddenly, while visiting her in the Bahamas.
She had given birth to a baby girl just three days before her son's death.
Bryan
02-08-2007, 04:05 PM
Very sad. I'm not claiming to be psychic or anything but I just had hunch for some time now that she wasn't going to make it.
mixtymotions
02-08-2007, 05:22 PM
Ochiya, I know you were fond of Anna Nicole and that she fought the hard fight. I hope the estate will provide for her baby daughter.
Ochiya
02-08-2007, 05:49 PM
Ochiya, I know you were fond of Anna Nicole and that she fought the hard fight. I hope the estate will provide for her baby daughter.
Yeah. Thanks, Mixty. She did. And there is at least one hard, long day of dignity she left behind her like a shiny stone.
--O
GodSistah
02-08-2007, 06:38 PM
This is very sad. Poor little baby girl.
:(
~Andrea~
Melba
02-08-2007, 06:46 PM
Makes me step back and be thankful for what I have in life.....hope someone will look out for that little girl.
It made me very sad. I think she has had a very sad life. Granted she has made some very bad choices in my opinion, -but I think she was a very lost soul who didn't know who to trust in this world. I think she was desperate for love and security and never really had it. I also feel bad for the baby.
Wildflower Fever
02-08-2007, 08:54 PM
Sad, and unfortunately, as it often is for those who pass at a young age, it appears to be drug related. EMT's administered her a dose of a anti/overdosing drug generally used to offset the overdose effects of heroin and morphine. :(
In the general progression of intoxicant uses, why doesn't everybody just stop at cannabis? There's no need to venture further, longer into life. When you do, this is usually the result.
DaveM
02-08-2007, 11:20 PM
I, too, feel for the daughter, and hope she will be provided for. And I have a certain amount of sympathy for Anna Nicole Smith, who seems a classic example of someone who got caught up in "the machine" to the point where she lost herself. And no one cared or had the time to try to give it back.
I remain completely and utterly baffled by the new generation of American "celebrities", who appear to have no record of accomplishment to account for their status and are seemingly famous just for being famous. Surely anyone in this position eventually comes to feel like the hole in the doughnut and tries to fill that terrible hollow--usually by destructive means.
There is no joy in learning of the death of another, but I find myself unable to mourn (and disgusted by the already-begun process of "building a legend" with comparisons to Marilyn Monroe). Better men and women have left this earth before their time--more than a few of my acquaintances among them. I save my tears for them.
Darlene
02-09-2007, 01:30 AM
I feel sorry for that little girl who was born in a world of conflict. Was it ever verified as to her father was? I know it really doesnt matter but it seems like her life would be more settled if that discrepancy was finalized.
Anna Nicole Smith led a life that I wouldn't want. I hope she found the peace she was looking for. She sure left that baby girl in a most uncomfortable position. Hang in there "little baby girl"
I will always think of Anna Nicole Smith as a child who never found the love that she so desperately wanted and needed. I believe that’s what ultimately turned her into a living parody and fuelled her hunger for so much media attention. It seems she made some rather unwise choices along the way (with plenty of help from a culture that idolises all things phoney and plastic), but what’s done is done. Will the media or anyone else learn anything from this story? Unlikely, and I find that sadder than any one woman’s demise or the unhappy legacy she has left behind.
Rickster
02-09-2007, 08:24 AM
Very Sad...Too young to die! Feel sorry for the baby.
aabram
02-09-2007, 09:01 AM
Very sad for the little girl
ponytail
02-09-2007, 12:27 PM
I'm sorry to hear it when anyone dies young, and when a child is left in a difficult position. Anna Nicole's celebrity always bewildered me, though. I couldn't understand what she was famous FOR. She reminded me of Bianca Jagger -- I could never figure out why her every move was being reported, either.
More evidence, I guess, that fame is a poor substitute for love.
I couldn't understand what she was famous FOR.
Well, in the end she was only famous as fodder for tabloids and gossip shows, but she actually began her career modelling for Playboy (and was their 1993 Playmate of the Year in fact).
She also replaced Claudia Schiffer as a model for Guess Jeans and had good success with them in an ad campaign during the mid-1990s.
Another celebrity child caught in controversy is the son of the late James Brown who is not included in his will.
lucille
02-09-2007, 05:38 PM
I first became aware of her when her billionaire husband died, and she was fighting for her share of the money. In a strange kind of way she seemed to find some sort of love from him. Her lawyer is a strange piece of work.
Hmm. First the son dies. Then the Mother dies. Whoever is the father of that baby girl child stands to be guardian of an awful lot of money, I'm thinking. Perfect mystery story material. Redrum?
Hmm. First the son dies. Then the Mother dies. Whoever is the father of that baby girl child stands to be guardian of an awful lot of money, I'm thinking. Perfect mystery story material. Redrum?
I blame PA Randy.
Eva
lucille
02-10-2007, 10:10 PM
Money - the root of all evil (excuse the pun):D
Now at least five possible fathers including the sperm of Mr Marshal, and a born again prince.
DaveM
02-10-2007, 11:33 PM
Oh, I think she'd have turned out much the same if she'd lived her life in poverty--it just wouldn't have made the papers and all the "potential fathers" would have been "some local guys" instead of Social Register folk trying to get their own 15 minutes out of the whole thing.
Money - the root of all evil
There may be less money to chase than people are assuming.
"A Federal Court in California initially awarded Smith $474 million US, but the decision was later overturned. However, last May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that she could continue her fight for the Marshall fortune." (source: CBC.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/02/09/smith-death-disputes.html))
That vast inheritance was never granted by the courts before her death.
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