Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas curvaceous blonde girl whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39. The circumstances of her death are still unconfirmed, but Pentagon officials are hinting that a Predator drone and a half dozen precision-guided missiles may have played a role. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.
She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital after a private nurse who had apparently been alone with her in her room at the hotel telephoned a hotel operator to ask for medical help. Ms. Smith’s bodyguard arrived a few minutes later and tried to revive her with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as did paramedics, who arrived after 2 p.m., they said, but she was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 2:49 p.m. The office of the Broward County Medical Examiner was to perform an autopsy on Friday morning.
“There was just no way of knowing how long she’d been down before she was discovered,” the paramedic, Capt. Dan Fitzgerald, told the television station. He said Ms. Smith’s companion, Howard K. Stern, was in the room when the rescue team arrived and had provided her medical history.
From her first Playboy centrefold and marriage to an 89-year-old oil tycoon to the mysterious death of her adult son, Anna Nicole Smith lived her life in a special corner of America — the often garish world of supermarket tabloids. A ninth-grade dropout, she rose quickly from life as a small-town wife and mother to a high-profile career as a topless dancer; pinup; model; film actress; reality-show star; clothing designer; product endorser; and, briefly but most notably, wife of a tycoon nearly four times her age in a marriage that would eventually propel her to the United States Supreme Court in a fight over his billion-dollar estate.
She met elderly oil billionaire J Howard Marshall while dancing at a Houston strip club and married him in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. Smith, who modelled Guess jeans, was named Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Year in 1993 and had film roles that year in The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
Anna Nicole Smith was widely known to television viewers as the star of “The Anna Nicole Show,” broadcast on the E! network from 2002 to 2004. The show chronicled the minutiae of its heroine’s daily life, which showed her on visits to her dentists and giving Prozac to her dog. Ms. Smith was also familiar as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a diet supplement. (In a class-action suit filed in Los Angeles this month, Ms. Smith and TrimSpa’s manufacturer were accused of false and misleading marketing.)
Anna Nicole Smith’s mother publicly begged her daughter in November to stop taking drugs and begin a new life. “Vickie Lynn, please, you have a family, baby … we’re still here for you,” Virgie Arthur said on “The Dr. Keith Ablow Show.” “You don’t have to have drugs, you’ve got a beautiful baby girl now. You need to start life over, you need to be a great mom and live life now.”
“I’m disappointed that she got mixed up in drugs and the wrong people … she lives on drugs now,” Smith’s mother said in November. Arthur also said that she didn’t believe Smith’s current boyfriend and sometimes lawyer, Howard K. Stern, was the father of her infant daughter.
Her mother also made an eerie prediction on a cable news legal show in October.
“If Howard Stern marries her and she ends up dead, then who does the money go [to]?” Arthur said then. “[Her son] Danny’s not there.”

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