POSTED: 2226 GMT (0626 HKT), February 8, 2007
(CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former model whose life as a Playboy centerfold, billionaire's widow and reality TV star made her the center of tabloid attention, is dead. She was 39.
Smith was found Thursday "unconscious and unresponsive" in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino and Hotel in Hollywood, Florida, according to Hollywood Fire and Rescue.
Smith's death comes after a year of controversies that kept her in the public eye. (People.com: Anna Nicole stories)
Last February, she attended U.S. Supreme Court arguments over her claim to a portion of her late husband's billion-dollar fortune. The justices unanimously decided in her favor in May.
On September 7, she gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope, at a hospital in the Bahamas. Three days later her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died of an apparent mix of antidepressants and other drugs in Smith's hospital room.
Pathologist Cyril Wecht, who obtained test results from a Pennsylvania laboratory, told CNN that Daniel Smith died from a combination of methadone along with antidepressants Lexapro and Zoloft.
Later that month, Smith's attorney, Howard K. Stern, told CNN's "Larry King Live," that he was Dannielynn's father and that he and Anna Nicole planned to marry. "Based on the timing of when the baby was born, there really is no doubt in either of our minds," Stern said.
But entertainment reporter and photographer Larry Birkhead also claimed he was the girl's father, saying in a statement given to CNN that Smith had told him he was the father. Birkhead had waged a legal fight to determine the child's paternity, attempting to have a DNA test done.
On Tuesday, Smith was included in a class-action suit against a company, TrimSpa, for which she had worked as a spokesperson. TrimSpa makes a product it claims leads to substantial weight loss. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading. Smith had battled with her weight for years but had slimmed down recently.
The article and some crap she did before dying
The right words are hard to find in such times so I shall have to rely on the words of another...
HA HA!
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okay, so I'm a jerk. But at least I never tried to screw a family out of their inherritance.
quoted from article to vindicate me.