On ne connait pas encore les causes réelles du décès. Les secours ont trouvé la jeune femme effondrée dans sa chambre, et ont tenté en vain, de la réanimer d'après CNN et Fox. On a mentionné le penchant de la star pour la drogue, mais rien n'est sûr pour l'instant.
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Former model and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith has died after being rushed to a Florida hospital following a collapse at a Florida hotel; she was 39. According to initial reports, Smith was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Thursday afternoon, and was unresponsive when a rescue unit arrived at the scene. She was then rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital after 2pm ET. Her attorney, Ron Rale, confirmed that Smith died at the hospital about an hour later. Smith had most recently been involved a paternity suit over her daughter Dannilynn, instigated by her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who claimed he was the father of the child and not Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer, boyfriend, and co-star on her reality TV show. The paternity suit, as well another lawsuit, a class-action suit brought against her and the diet company TrimSpa, came on the heels of the death of her son, Daniel Smith, who died in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas of a drug overdose just three days after the birth of Dannilynn on September 7, 2006. Ultimately, the death was ruled accidental after extensive coverage and private medical examination.
Born in Houston, Texas, Smith cultivated a blonde, Marilyn Monroe-style image and became famous initially as 1993's Playboy Playmate of the Year and as a model for Guess jeans in the early '90s. In 1994 she married millionaire and oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who would be her second husband; he was 89, she was 27. When he died in 1995, she became embroiled in a feud with her husband's family over the rights to the $400 million estate, the beginning of a protracted legal battle that would go all the way to the Supreme Court, which decided that the case could only be tried by the California federal courts, invalidating a Texas state court ruling. After fading from the spotlight, Smith resurfaced in 2002 with a reality show, The Anna Nicole Show, and as the spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet pills, to which she attributed her dramatic weight loss. For years, she became a prominent tabloid figure, as magazines chronicled her life's ups and downs and the continuous court battle with her in-laws. Smith reportedly married Howard K. Stern in September 2006 in the Bahamas, though according to some reports, the marriage was not legally binding. Further details surrounding the cause of death were not immediately available.
--Mark Englehart, IMDb staff