Anna Nicole Smith rushed to hospital

[bellcurve]

YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!

Geez, Anna Nicole's life is 39 Years Of MAURY footage.

[Bree]

As sad as her death is, this is probably the best soap opera going right now.

[jcar03]

The media is all over this more then any recent celebrity death I can think of.

A few days ago they were all over the crazy NASA thing. These things mirror so many soap opera plots that is the media covered soaps like that ratings might go up.

[Drew]

speaking of soap ratings ... I predict gloomy scores this week because of all the news coverage and interest in this rather than their "stories"

[Drew]

this may be a stupid question ... but the suit isn't to prove Anna Nicole's the mum, but to prove who's the dad. Why do they need samples from her? Why can't they just get blood from the baby and blood from Stern and Birkhead and be done with it?

[Brandeis]

I think it's because if they get her sample as well, neither male parent can cry foul and say the baby's DNA was from some other kid. Not sure if I've explained that well. For example, any independent lab can come to the conclusion that the baby's DNA came from potential father "A" and Anna Nicole but not father "B". If they said contains father "A" but not father "B", someone could contend that a sample from one of father "A"'s other children from another mother was used, creating a situation where the tests would have to be done all over again.

Not sure if this is the full reason.

[Q Steph]

This is getting crazier than any PSSNS plot!

She is truly immortalized like Marilyn now.

[Q Steph]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Feb. 9) - More tests will be necessary to determine the cause of Anna Nicole Smith 's death, but no illegal drugs were found in her hotel room, officials said Friday.

It's possible Smith's died of natural causes, because of some medication or from a combination of reasons, said Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief medical examiner for Broward County, who performed the autopsy.

The autopsy was able to exclude any types of physical injury such as gunshot wound, asphyxiation or blunt trauma on the body of the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate and reality TV star, Perper said.

It revealed only "subtle findings" in the heart and gastrointestinal tract, and blood in her stomach from being in shock before she died, Perper said. Minor bruises on her back were from a previous fall in the bathroom, he said.

"There were no findings that would indicate continuing drug abuse," Perper said. He called the process a "medical puzzle" and said it would take three to five weeks to conclude the investigation.

Smith apparently had been sick for several days with some kind of stomach flu, Perper said.

Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said investigators "found no illegal drugs, only prescription medicines" in Smith's hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood. Nothing unusual was observed on hotel surveillance tapes, and there was no evidence to suggest a crime occurred, he said.

On Thursday, a private nurse found Smith unconscious in her room and called 911, officials said. A bodyguard performed CPR, Tiger said, but Smith was declared dead at a hospital.

The autopsy was performed Friday on Smith, whose mother blamed drugs for the former Playboy playmate's sudden death that ended an extraordinary tabloid life.

In another bizarre twist to the case, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Prince Frederick von Anhalt, claimed that he might be the father of Smith's infant daughter.

Two other men are already waging a paternity battle over the little girl, who stands to inherit Smith's estate. Von Anhalt, 59, told The Associated Press he and Smith had been having an affair since the 1990s. "She wanted to be a princess," he said.

"I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's late son)," Smith's 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.

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."

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."

Gabor's husband, von Anhalt, said Friday that he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead. He said he and Smith started their long affair after she approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in New York while she was still married to Marshall.

"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt said.

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 AP 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.

[Q Steph]

Zsa Zsa Gabor's former publicist, Ed Lozzi, has lashed out at Frederick von Anhalt for claiming he could be the father of Anna Nicole's daughter.

Lozzi tells TMZ that Frederick von Anhalt is "a chronic fabricator who likes to inject himself into current events to see himself on television."

Von Anhalt tells the AP he first met Anna Nicole when she was married to elderly billionaire J. Howard Marshall. He claims Smith wanted to become a princess so he says he offered to adopt her, but Gabor refused to sign the paperwork.

Published reports indicate that von Anhalt's "royal" moniker may have been purchased. Reportedly, a financially strapped Marie Auguste, Princess of Anhalt, sold him the title.

[Q Steph]

Anna Nicole Smith had a brush with death only a short time before she died yesterday afternoon.

"ET" correspondent Mark Steines told "Today" about a recent event where Anna Nicole Smith was found face down in the pool at her Bahamian residence. Howard K. Stern found her, and her bodyguard pulled her from the water, gave her CPR and "saved her life at that point."

Steines added that when he last met Smith, he believed she was "living a very fragile existence," and Stern told him she was "falling into a deeper and deeper depression" since the death of her son Daniel.

[Q Steph]

A California 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 February 20, attorneys said.

Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern both claim to be the father of baby Dannielynn. Attorneys for Larry Birkhead wanted to be sure Anna's DNA was tested, to prevent what they call a "bait and switch," where another child's DNA would be used as a sample.

Anna's attorney Ron Rale said he has spoken to Stern and that he was "incoherent" on the phone. Rale also indicated he was angry about being dragged into court when he should be in Miami offering Stern his "friendship and assistance" during this difficult time. He also said when he spoke to Anna in the past few days, she was "fine and totally coherent."

[Q Steph]

Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern were to be married in the Bahamas February 23rd, according to published reports. ET says anchor Mark Steines had been invited to the wedding.

In addition, sources tell TMZ the couple was in Florida to pick up a new 39' boat that they had purchased and take it back to the Bahamas.

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TMZ has learned that there were six people, including Anna, staying with her in her two-bedroom suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Florida.

The private nurse, who discovered Anna unresponsive, is the wife of Anna's bodyguard. The bodyguard, who is also a paramedic, administered CPR to Anna until an ambulance arrived. Anna's companion, Howard K. Stern, was staying in the room as well.

The identities of two other individuals are, at this time, still unknown.

[Q Steph]

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TMZ can confirm that this photo of Anna Nicole Smith, sprawled out face-down on the floor next to a spilled pitcher of ice water, with spectators standing around her body, is not the last photo taken of the pop icon before her untimely death on Thursday.

The distressing pic circulated over the Internet yesterday, with reports claiming it was snapped at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, just prior to her death. In truth, the photo was taken in June, 2005 at a Myrtle Beach nightclub, where Anna was a judge in a wet T-shirt contest. Sad nonetheless.

[Q Steph]

On second thought, Rosie O'Donnell is a fat, stupid [!@#$%^&*]!

After an eerie rant on yesterday's "The View" slamming Anna Nicole Smith, Rosie O'Donnell took to her blog today and characterized the starlet's death as ... loose change?

On rosie.com, O'Donnell reprinted what appears to be the headlines taken from the Drudge Report, where coverage of Anna Nicole's death has been the top story since yesterday, and added a line of her own -- "LOOSE CHANGE." It's unclear whether O'Donnell was referring to Anna Nicole herself or -- more likely -- her own inclusion in the Drudge headlines.

Speaking of yesterday's "View" rant, Rosie, in a case of deeply unfortunate timing, declared her disdain for Anna Nicole and her suspicion of drug use by the former Playmate -- just hours before her death. Today's "View" was previously taped, so Ro won't have a chance to speak out again til Monday.

Through her rep, Rosie tells TMZ that the death of Anna Nicole is "unbearably tragic."

[Q Steph]

Chyna Doll aka Joanie Laurer broke down in tears last night on "Larry King Live" as she talked about her "friend" Anna Nicole, and the tears kept coming as she left CNN studios in Hollywood.

Reporters and photographers surrounded the sobbing former wrestler as she made her way downstairs and into a waiting car, after her sputtering interview, which was punctuated with objections from Monique Goen aka Mrs. TRIMSPA, who said that Anna told her that Chyna was "a stalker."

Chyna and Anna allegedly became close when they co-starred in her last film, "Illegal Aliens."

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TMZ can confirm that Anna's lawyer-turned-partner Howard K. Stern was interviewed by Seminole Police officials last night. Cops say Stern was cooperative. TMZ has learned that Anna's private nurse and bodyguard were also interviewed as part of the investigation into Anna's death.