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BY MONEYMADE [PHOTO ALBUM] newsday.com She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children of Donald Eugene and Virgie Hart Hogan. Anna Nicole Smith Dead At 39 accesshollywood.com HOLLYWOOD, Florida (February 8, 2007) --Anna Nicole Smith has died, her lawyer Ron Rale has confirmed. Anna Nicole had been rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, shortly after 2 p.m. EST after collapsing at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood.Local police were reportedly forced to shut down the streets to expedite rushing her to the hospital.According to reports, fire crews and emergency personnel performed CPR on Smith and put a tube down her throat.According to a witness on the scene, when rescue workers arrived, Anna Nicole was unresponsive.Her bodyguard was also reportedly visibly shaken at the scene.Smith had been a tabloid staple even before she became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. Readers were fascinated by her bombshell good looks, her marriage to an elderly billionaire and subsequent court fight over his estate, her weight fluctuations, and last year, the sudden death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith. A former topless dancer, she made her name squeezing into Guess jeans. She resembled the late actress Marilyn Monroe, a similarity played up in her Guess magazine ads, billboards and department store displays. In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune worth at least $400 million.He died in 1995, setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to his estate.A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million in a complicated legal twist that began after she declared bankruptcy. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her former stepson.The justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with her case despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall was the sole heir to the estate.Then, the stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue. "Our family was shocked by the untimely death of Anna Nicole Smith. We wish to express our sympathies to her family in this difficult time," the Marshall family said in a statement obtained by Access Hollywood."We understand that many of you will be asking questions concerning the ongoing litigation with Anna. Out of respect to her friends and family we will reserve comment on the litigation at this time," they statement concluded.Daniel Smith died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. Low levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, Wecht said. Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute.She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children of Donald Eugene and Virgie Hart Hogan.She married Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.Hugh Hefner just released a statement on Anna Nicole's death to Access Hollywood."I am very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole's passing," he said. "She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and loved ones during this difficult time." | ||||||||||||
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