Anna Nicole Smith Marshall

[A's Fever]

Autopsy to be performed today on Anna.
If found death to be from natural causes, results should be readily available.

If not, for definitive reason, results could take up to a few weeks.

I heard on H&C last night, that as ghoulish as it sounds, pictures of trying to bring back Anna thru cpr have already been sold for 500,000.

This was reported by Geraldo Rivera on the show last night.

It was reported that Howard K. Stern is the one who sold the pictures.

Who in the world would take such pictures?  Was this in the "privacy" of the hotel room when this woman was dying?  HKS???

[Jacqueline]

Autopsy on Former Playboy Model Anna Nicole Smith Under Way
By VOA News
09 February 2007
 

 
Anna Nicole Smith, right, leaves US Supreme Court in Washington with her son Daniel Smith in this February 28, 2006 photo
A medical examiner in Florida has begun an autopsy on Anna Nicole Smith, a famous former Playboy Model who died Thursday.

The medical examiner said if Smith died of natural causes, the findings will likely be announced quickly, but definitive results could take weeks if the findings are more subtle.  The examiner said he plans to hold a new conference Friday afternoon.

[Jacqueline]

Footage of Anna Nicole Smith failing to respond to CPR sells for $500K. Hey, you know what else is dead? Dignity.

This may be a rumor....
But this is what is going around...
Time will tell ....

[2NJSons_Mom]

I have Fox on now, and they reported expecting autopsy results at approx. 11:30AM ET...nothing, as yet.  

Judge refuses emergency DNA test, per lawyer of AN in FL.

[Jacqueline]

I have Fox on now, and they reported expecting autopsy results at approx. 11:30AM ET...nothing, as yet.  

Judge refuses emergency DNA test, per lawyer of AN in FL.

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Well that sux.

[2NJSons_Mom]

Case dismissed for Birkhead, again.  Stating he must go to Bahamas, which he has not done to date.  Everything denied.  No emergency noted.  

I'm surprised, because Debra Opri seemed so confident.  Yes, it sux, because this will also drag on.

[2NJSons_Mom]

AN lawyer is in CA (not FL as posted earlier)...saying H K Stern needs him and he wants to go to his aid....mentioned H K Stern is anxious to get back to care for Dannilynne...

[Jacqueline]

AN lawyer is in CA (not FL as posted earlier)...saying H K Stern needs him and he wants to go to his aid....mentioned H K Stern is anxious to get back to care for Dannilynne...

God, two people already have died in your presence...

I'm not saying he killed them but he sure is not a good luck charm.

Prove the baby is yours Howard and carry on.....

ahhhhh but most of the free world know he isn't.

[Jacqueline]

A Los Angeles judge orders the body of Anna Nicole Smith to be preserved pending a February 20 hearing on the paternity dispute surrounding her five-month-old daughter, lawyer says.

[Jacqueline]

Dramatic video of EMTs struggling to save the life of former Playmate Anna Nicole Smith surfaced Friday on the Web, hours after the paparazzi outlet Splash News & Picture Agency reported that rights to the graphic video sold for more than $500,000.The video shows paramedics working on the unresponsive reality star as she was wheeled from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. Splash News screened the videotape to potential media buyers at their Los Angeles headquarters just hours after Smith's death Thursday afternoon.

The video, however, turned up Friday morning on the popular German TV channel RTL, and was quickly posted by Liveleak.com.

The video also was picked up by the Drudgereport.com.

Click here to view the Anna Nicole Smith video on Liveleak.com

In the video, emergency responders appear to administer CPR on two separate occasions as the TrimSpa spokeswoman was wheeled out of the hotel on a gurney, according to FOX News Channel producer Christopher Spinder, who viewed the tape on Thursday.

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Her companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is not visible in the video.

The two-minute tape, shot from three different angles from a distance of about 50 feet, shows Smith's sheet-covered body, with an oxygen mask over her face, being taken out of the Hard Rock Hotel by a gaggle of emergency responders, including paramedics and police.

"You cannot see her face, you cannot see hair flowing out from underneath the mask," Spinder said. "Again if someone didn't tell me this was Anna Nicole Smith, I totally would not have known it. You can't even tell it's a woman."

The video shows footage of the ambulance driving away from the hotel under a police escort, then cuts to the ambulance at Memorial Regional Hospital just after 2 p.m. ET Thursday.

"You do not see the ambulance pull into the hospital, and you do not see the body come out of the back of the ambulance," Spinder said. "You just see the ambulance sitting there.

"One would assume that the cameraman got there after the body had already been unloaded from the ambulance and was already in the hospital at that point," he said.

Smith died at 2:45 p.m. at the age of 39. She is survived by a 4-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall. Her only son, Daniel Smith, died in the Bahamas in September, three days after her daughter was born.

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[Dihannah1]

I don't understand why they just can't get the DNA sample while they are doing autopsy,  what is the point of holding on to the body for later?  Makes no sense, just do it and get it over with.  The judge is needlessly putting everybody on hold and hanging.  Larry deserves to at least know,  the truth (that HE is the father), let them all move on!  I pray the AN mother gets the baby until paternity proven.  Too much at stake here.  Heck, she'd be better off in foster care for a short time until resolved.  Why is the judge dragging this out?

[2NJSons_Mom]

The legal talking heads are arguing that if the child was conceived here, then Larry has a right.  The opposition states that because AN took up residence in the Bahamas & Dannilynne was born there, all inquiries must go through the Bahamian courts, leaving US out of the picture.  

Even though AN died here, the DNA for the paternity suit & the autopsy for cause of her death, apparently are separated by jurisdiction.  

We all should get a half a credit for attempting to learn how the laws work.  

[Jacqueline]

Legal mumbo jumbo.

Might as well put her body on ice next to James Brown, cause he has not had his proper burial either.

Lawyers.....

[pdh3]

I think there is something going on, because the police took evidence from AN's hotel room. I suspect AN was addicted to methadone, or something similar.
If AN was so sick, why even come to FL to buy a boat? It is certainly not an emergency item, is it? That kind of creeps me out....a boat shopping trip when your significant other is so sick she has to travel with a nurse.
That makes no sense at all.
When things don't add up, then you know there is criminal activity somewhere.
Howard has a lot of questions to answer. My guess is that he is involved up to his neck, and right now he is planning some way out.

That poor, sweet little baby.

[mishy]

A Los Angeles judge orders the body of Anna Nicole Smith to be preserved pending a February 20 hearing on the paternity dispute surrounding her five-month-old daughter, lawyer says.

I hope this doesn't go on as long as it has for James Brown   Lay the poor guy to rest!

Can't they just take some DNA and preserve it and let ANna be laid to rest? The idea of swabbing the inside of a corpse's mouth seems sorta disrespectful, but I feel that HK Stern is not the father...

[Leslie]

Why would they need DNA from the mother?

[2NJSons_Mom]

NOW, AP is supposedly reporting that another older man claims to have had a 10 year relationship with AN and is the father of the child.  I just caught a little on the tube....a prince?  I may have heard wrong.

[Jacqueline]

Why would they need DNA from the mother?

Larry was afraid they may try to do a baby switch.

Wanted the mom's dna also to prove it was hers.

At least that is what I heard.

[Jacqueline]

NOW, AP is supposedly reporting that another older man claims to have had a 10 year relationship with AN and is the father of the child.  I just caught a little on the tube....a prince?  I may have heard wrong.

People are going to come out of the woodwork now.

[2NJSons_Mom]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father.

The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead.

Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.

Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.

Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

"She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he said. "She wanted to be a princess."

He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.

But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.

Meanwhile, a judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the body of Anna Nicole Smith as part of a paternity suit involving her infant daughter, but he ordered that the body be preserved until a hearing in 10 days, attorneys said.

A medical examiner began an autopsy Friday on Anna Nicole Smith, whose mother blamed drugs for the former Playboy playmate'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" on Friday. "I tried to warn her about drugs and the people that she hung around with. She didn't listen."

"She was too drugged up," Arthur said. "By the last interview I saw of her, she was so wasted."

Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, said the one-time reality TV star had been ill for several days with a fever and was still depressed over the death five months ago of her 20-year-old son from what a private medical examiner determined was a combination of methadone and two antidepressants.

On Thursday, authorities say, a private nurse found Smith unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and called 911. A bodyguard performed CPR, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said, but Smith was declared dead at a hospital.

Late Thursday, sheriff's deputies carried out at least eight brown paper bags sealed with red evidence tape from Smith's hotel room.

Several detectives are reviewing the hotel surveillance tapes to see if they might provide a clue to what happened, Deputy Police Chief Michael Browne said Friday. He said they had interviewed everyone connected to the death and no one was under suspicion.

"Nothing about this death seems suspicious. We're not treating it that way," Browne said. "We're being very thorough. We're going to look at everything."

Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said an autopsy was under way Friday morning to try to determine the cause of death.

If Smith died of natural causes, the findings will likely be announced quickly, but definitive results could take weeks, said Dr. Joshua Perper, who was performing the autopsy.

"I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find," he said.

Smith's son's death in the Bahamas on Sept. 10 came just a few days after she gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn, whose custody remains in dispute.

The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion, who Rale said was with Smith at the hotel and was too choked up to talk when he called Rale with the news. Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.

At a hearing Friday in Los Angeles, a judge declined Birkhead's attorney's request to order an immediate DNA sample be taken from Smith's body. The judge ordered the body be retained, though, until a hearing on Feb. 20, attorney Debra Opri said.

Opri said the DNA is needed to connect Smith with Dannielynn "so that no one can switch the babies."

She also asked the judge to take jurisdiction over the child until her paternity is established. "Nothing was granted. Nothing was denied," she said.

Rale, Smith's attorney, said it was "despicable that we would have an emergency notice and appear right now."

The baby was being cared for in the Bahamas by the mother of Shane Gibson, the Bahamian immigration minister who is a close friend of Smith's, People magazine reported on its Web site, citing unidentified sources.

A visibly shaken Gibson declined comment as he was leaving his office Thursday night, and he has not responded to several message left by The Associated Press seeking comment.

Through the '90s and into the 21st century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona and her over-the-top revealing outfits.

Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. In recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.

"Undoubtedly it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel," said Michael Scott, a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas.

Rale 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."

The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at a strip club before she made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.

In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. After his death the following year, she engaged in a protracted legal fight with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to the estate.

A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.

The stepson died June 20 at age 67, but the family said the court fight would continue.

Smith starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 2002-04. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.

Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.

She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia, Texas.

She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.

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AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch in Los Angeles and AP Writers Curt Anderson in Davie, Fla., Sarah Larimer in Hollywood, Fla., and Ana Beatriz Cholo in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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