(CNN) -- Reality TV star and former model Anna Nicole Smith was pronounced dead Thursday after being taken to a Florida hospital, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Smith, 39, collapsed at a south Florida hotel, according to news reports.

"I can confirm that she is deceased. It's as shocking to me as to you guys," Smith's attorney, Ronald Rale, told Reuters. "I don't know anything further. [Her lawyer and husband] Howard [K. Stern], obviously, is speechless and grieving."

Smith's nurse called Seminole Hard Rock Hotel workers at 1:38 p.m. and security went to the room, hotel officials said. Fire rescue workers from both the Seminole Indian tribe and from Hollywood Fire-Rescue arrived minutes later and Smith was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood at 2:10 p.m.

Smith was involved in a paternity suit regarding the parentage of her daughter, Danielynn, as well as other disputes, including some regarding a house she stayed at in the Bahamas around the time she gave birth.

Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit 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's son, Daniel Wayne Smith, died at age 20 just days after the birth of Smith's daughter. Pathologist Cyril Wecht said a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants caused cardiac dysrhythmia, leading to his death.

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You did indeed Kelly

 I didn't know where to put this either, I was debating between Movies & TV or here.  Seems even in her passing we don't know what to think of Anna!!

"We cannot allow a mine shaft gap"

LOL.

They aren't saying yet, but I'm thinking it's complications from pneumonia that she had a few weeks ago

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CNN (Celebrity News Network?) was already reporting drug overdose when the rest of the interttrucks had barely managed to announce that she was dead. [Correction: I think they were referring to her son's death.  I should have checked the article myself first.]

Either way, farewell to the woman who made Jayne Mansfield look like Audrey Hepburn.

 

     
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methadone. mixed with other kinds of stuff, same as her son died. that's my opinion, that woman had a dang rugged life. I heard this morning before this all happened about the paternity thing, somethings just not right  about her hubby there, or lover, he was there when her son died after the birth of her baby girl & now her.   I was not a huge fan of nicole smith, just wondering if anyone remember the guess jeans ads she had done , also that supertramp video? what song was that from supertramp with her in it? caught a glimpse off VHS1 a good while back.

I'm gutted...she was one of my first

Gonna dig out my old playmate of the year video and have a wee service in her memory tonight...

I noticed at the delicatessen this morning that one of the N Y tabloids ( I think the Daily News ) had a massive headline:

"Was She Murdered?" with a picture of Anna Nicole !

 don't know what scripts she was taking Reb.

Just a thought: Evidently the ceremony Howard and Anna had a while back was not official. They were planning on a fully legal marriage ceremony very soon. Would Howard not wait until that ceremony, if he had bad intend towards Anna ?  I mean that new ceremony would cement his claim to her fortune or part of it.

She lost the battle in one of the appeals court, then she took it all the wy up to the supreme court where it was a unanimous decision for her to be able to sue the family for the fortune.

I think she got about half of it, but the family was still going to sue because they don't think she get it.

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As far as receiving ANY of that inheritance, I believe it has only been lawyers who have made any money from the death of old Mr. Marshall a dozen years ago. Ah, the wheels of justice turn slowly. Or, how many lawyers does it take to turn a wheel of justice? And who wins? Any time you can rea$onably avoid the "$ervice$" of a lawyer, it is one'$ be$t intere$t to do $o, if you a$k me.

Lil timeline of Anna and the unresolved inheritance...

     
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TrimSpa. There was a whole load of people at work yesterday who were forming theories that she died from taking TrimSpa for too long or too much.

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talked to my sis today, she thinks that the baby will be  like athina roussel onassis de miranda, all that wealth.

Anna had been feeling bad -under the weather for a week leading up to her death. So, that means her system was not at in a  strong state. Now I read in TMZ that the day she died she was fall down drunk from throwing back shots of alcohol . Then they find in her room A sh-t load of Xanax,a tranquilizer, Fentanyl-a strong fast acting narcotic type drug, and Methadone a slower acting strong narcotic !! So, Ok when they started to check her condition out, they found no pills in her stomack-but that means little-pills would be digested in a half hour more or less. She ( to me ) she was obviously mixing strong medicines and OD'ed. IMO. Whose name is on the perscription bottles ?

http://www.tmz.com/    ( 2nd article down )

Anna Nicole was the female incarnation of Mike Tyson.  Too pretty to go unnoticed even in a small Texan town.  He too strong and talented to be overlooked.  Each of them had a bare minimum of individuals in their lives they could trust.  Neither was mentally equipped for the difficulty of managing their increasingly complex lives filled with leeches, hangers-on and those looking to prosper from proximity to the money making source. 

Anna, at least, had her son.  HAD being the operative word.  Tyson had Cus D'Amato until his death in 1985.  Anna's mother -- now there's a piece of work -- looks to be an opportunistic slug.  If your own mother/father is not your ally -- or non-existent -- then finding someone to trust in the larger universe becomes difficult.   

Anyway, I find them both sad and tragic figures.  Sympathetic too.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

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