MORE PICS – DRUGGED OUT ANNA NICOLE SMITH 39 Died 8th Feb 07; Voluptuous Blonde, Marilyn Monroe look-alike; Playboy 1993 Playmate; Model for Guess?
MORE PICTURES & Updated Stories: STOLEN Photos: ANNA Nicole SMITH in BED with
Domain name thestoryofannanicolesmith.com sold for $3,500
Asked by a local TV station whether his friendship with Smith helped speed her application through the approval process,
Gibson replied: "Absolutely not." The interview was broadcast late Monday. Smith's death opened up a three-way paternity dispute over her 5-month-old daughter and questions of who owns the waterfront mansion she claimed she had received as a gift from a developer from
Two other men have challenged the paternity claim.
A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may be the father. He said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge in court and wants a DNA test.
Since the death in 1995 of her 90-year-old husband,
= = == =
ANNA in bed with Bahamian Immigration Minister
A newspaper published two photographs on its front page Monday showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed fully clothed in a romantic embrace with the Bahamian immigration minister, who approved her application for permanent residency.
Immigration Minister Shane Gibson has come under criticism from the political opposition for giving the former Playboy Playmate special treatment in granting Smith residency in the
The residency application was based on Smith's purported ownership of a waterfront mansion. But G. Ben Thompson, a
ABOVE & BELOW: These two stolen photos published embarassed the Immigration minister for helping Anna to obtain PR in the Bahamas
Two photographs published on the front page of The Tribune of
= = ==
Bahamian Minister Responds Over Anna Nicole Pics
NASSAU, Bahamas (February 13, 2007) -- The Bahamas immigration minister denied that his friendship with Anna Nicole Smith influenced his decision to grant her permanent residency after a newspaper ran photos of him in bed with the former Playboy Playmate. The front-page pictures on Monday showed Smith and Immigration Minister Shane Gibson, both fully clothed, embracing on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon. In one of the photos, they look into each other's eyes, their faces only a couple of inches apart. The 39-year-old Smith had been living in the
ABOVE: The Bahamas Immigration Minister Shane Gibson vehemently denied he helped her excessively to obtain PR Status
= = = =
Stern's sister says he last saw Anna Nicole Smith asleep
By LINDA DEUTSCH; Associated Press; Posted
LOS ANGELES -- Anna Nicole Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, was not with the former Playboy playmate when she died, but he knew she was very sick, his sister says. Stern had told his sister that Smith was running a fever of 105 degrees shortly before her death on Thursday, and that a nurse was ``icing her down'' earlier that day at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in
``They had plans to get a yacht and to buy an engagement ring. They were going to get married Feb. 27. It was going to be a real marriage,'' she said. Asked what she thought caused Smith's death, Bonnie Stern said: ``Her immunity was so low. She was so depressed. She kept getting sick and her body just probably broke down.'' Smith had never recovered from the loss of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who died in the
ABOVE: Who is the father of this Child, Dannielynn?. The courts would decide after DNA tests.
Birkhead told
= = = =911
911 tape reveals little about Anna Nicole Smith's death;
Associated Press; Posted
BULLETIN: Larry Burkett filed a request today for a judge to preserve Anna Nicole Smith's remains.
ABOVE: The hospital she was sent to; BELOW: The Body wheeled into the hospital. Paramedics pumped in drugs but failed to revive her heart
In the 31-second call, the Seminole tribal police department asked
``She's not breathing, and she's not responsive. She's, um, actually Anna Nicole Smith,'' the woman from the Seminole Police is heard saying in asking for help in Room 607. ``Uh huh,'' a woman at Hollywood Fire Rescue responds.
``If you guys can please,'' the dispatcher said. ``Oh, OK,'' a woman at the Hollywood Police Department responds. Officials say they were on the scene six minutes after the call. Smith, a former Playboy playmate, model and reality TV character, was pronounced dead about an hour later at a hospital. Hollywood Police Capt. Tony Rode, who played the tape for the media, referred all questions to the Seminole Police Department, which did not immediately respond to a call for comment Tuesday. ``This investigation belongs to the Seminole Police Department,'' Rode said. ``You are looking at the extent of our role.'' The initial emergency call to the Seminole Police was not released; the Seminoles are a sovereign Indian nation and not subject to state open government laws.
= = ==
Zsa Zsa's husband to file claim for baby
Associated Press; Posted
LOS ANGELES -- Prince Frederic von Anhalt said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge to gain custody of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, even if it costs him his marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor. ``If the court rules in my favor, I will go to the
Anna Nicole Smith memorabilia is big business on eBay
By Marlene Naanes;
After the news of Anna Nicole Smith's death broke Thursday, people weren't asking only about how she died. They also were asking how much she's worth -- and not just based on wills and legal claims. They were looking to sell anything and everything Anna Nicole, from Playboy centerfolds to autographed panties to bobblehead dolls from her stint as an E! network reality television star. Slews of online eBay listings followed. And so did the sales. A top seller, the domain thestoryofannanicolesmith.com, was listed just after the clock struck
"I thought it was sudden, but that's just my opinion as a person, not as manager." The onslaught of sellers and buyers after Smith's death is not surprising, says economist Victor Matheson. The professor at College of the Holy Cross in
In Matheson's research, the bigger the star, the bigger the spike in memorabilia prices. As for Smith, how big the spike will be and how long it may last are undetermined for now. "I don't want to disparage Anna Nicole Smith, but there's some question down the line if she is going to be one of the most popular icons," he said. "Will someone know Anna Nicole Smith in a year? It's not clear at all to me that they will."
A comparison of some items listed on eBay before and after her death showed a definite spike. An 8-by-10, signed, seminude photo with a certificate of authenticity sold for less than $2 on Feb. 1. On Sunday, autographed prints of the same authenticated picture locked in bids upward of $50, and one print sold for more than $300 on the day of her death. A seller trying to hawk a bobble head version of Smith couldn't sell the doll in January. But hours after Smith was found dead, a buyer quickly snapped up one doll for $14.99, and hours later a case of 48 fetched more than $300, according to eBay's listings. Part-time eBay seller Stephanie Perry, of
Smith's death was the first time Perry was able to answer that question. She had posted Guess Magazine ads featuring Smith more than a year ago and twice failed to sell them. This time, two days after Smith's death, Perry made $19.99 off ads listed for just 24 hours. She has another bid for $20.50 listed for similar clippings.” It’s morbid, and I definitely feel bad about it, but I put them on as soon as I could," Perry said. "Everything with Marilyn Monroe is still very profitable. I don't know if Anna will be for long." Staff Researcher Jeremy Milarsky contributed to this report.
Marlene Naanes can be reached at mnaanes@hotmail.com or 954-385-7922.
Anna Nicole Smith's companion, daughter staying at disputed
By Jessica Robertson; ASSOCIATED PRESS;
Not only is the paternity of Smith's baby – who stands to inherit a fortune from Smith's late husband – in dispute, but so is the
The baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was also there, attorney Wayne Munroe told The Associated Press. An AP Television News reporter also saw Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, enter the white house. Munroe said he has filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment, drawings and paintings allegedly taken from the home, and authorities interviewed the housekeeper. Police said Sunday they are investigating. Munroe said the house now belongs to Stern, Smith's companion.
“Right now, Howard is very happy to be reunited with Dannielynn but extremely angry that somebody had the gall to break into Anna's residence,” Stern's spokesman, Ron Rale, said Sunday by telephone from
Smith's ownership of the mansion was the basis of her claim to residency in the
Who will get custody of the baby girl was not clear. Munroe said Stern, who is listed on a birth certificate as Dannielynn's father, was due custody. But two other men have challenged for paternity. A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father. On
ABOVE; ANNA NICOLE SMITH and her daugther Dannielynn and BELOW: Who is the father?. Three contenders: L to R; Larry Birkhead, Howard K Stern and Prince Frederick von Anhalt. Marshall her 90 year old husband could be the father; as she had his sperm frozen before he died in 1995
Friday, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, announced that he had a decade-long affair with Smith and he may be the girl's father. The New York Daily News also reported Saturday that a manuscript it obtained by Smith's half-sister, Donna Hogan, says Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant. Since
Smith gave birth to Dannielynn on Sept. 7 in a
ABOVE: Smith's mother believes her daughter died from a drug overdose
Arthur, who was reportedly staying in a resort in
Associated Press writers
= = == =
Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad;
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 9,
LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years. Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.
Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in
"She was a very sexy woman," von Anhalt said. "To have an affair with her is the top, you know." Von Anhalt's royal credentials have been the cause of speculation over the years. According to stories in the British press, he was born Robert Lichtenberg, the son of a German policeman, and bought his title after being adopted as an adult by a bankrupt daughter-in-law of the last kaiser.
= = == == = =
But it was her personal life that brought her attention - her marriage at 26 to octogenarian millionaire J Howard Marshall, the subsequent battle for his fortune and her later struggles with weight and tragedy. Born Vicki Lynn Hogan in
Financial battle
It was around that time that she met Marshall, the 89-year-old oil tycoon who in 1994 became her second husband.
ABOVE & BELOW: Married to 90 year old Marshall who gave her a fortune but was contested by the son, who also died after the old man passed away.
Their marriage generated enormous media interest, with Smith cast both as cynical gold-digger and ditzy blonde.
In 2002 she appeared in her own reality TV show and later went on to become the spokeswoman for diet supplement TrimSpa, after a well-charted struggle with her weight. But she was hit by tragedy in September 2006 when her 20-year-old son Daniel died just a few days after she gave birth to her infant daughter.
Smith then became embroiled in a legal dispute over the paternity of her baby daughter. (THREE persons claimin to be the father) Her death in a
Anna Nicole's cause of death still a mystery; By Michael Connor
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - An autopsy on former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith on Friday did not immediately reveal what killed the billionaire's widow but police found no signs her sudden death involved a crime.
BELOW: The playtemate of the year tag in Playboy shot her to fame
A
Smith had been living in the
ABOVE: 1995 Smith the wild party girl balances a shot glass inside her T-shirt BELOW: then dramatically empties it
BELOW: without using her hands
= == = == = == = == = == = == = == =
ABOVE & BELOW: Her Days of fun and fame
= = == = == = == = =
= == = ==
AUTOPSY INCONCLUSIVE
At a news conference outside the medical examiner's office in
"No evidence has been revealed to suggest that a crime occurred," said Tiger, who did not identify the prescription medicines.
Perper said there was no immediate indication that Smith had taken any large amount of prescription medicine because there were no pills in her stomach. But he said he would have to wait for laboratory test results to determine if drugs were involved in her death.
"At this time we do not make a determination of the cause and the manner of death," he said. "Our findings are limited to what we can see with our eyes."
Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, suggested on the ABC program "Good Morning America," that drugs played a role in her daughter's death. "I tried to warn her about the drugs and the people she hung around. She didn't listen," Arthur said. "She was too drugged up. The last interview I saw of her, she was so wasted."
Smith, who was born Vickie Lynn Hogan, was dogged by talk of addiction to drugs, including prescription painkillers, that was fueled by her slurred words and unusual behavior at awards shows and other public events.
TANGLED LEGAL FIGHT
Smith, a voluptuous platinum blonde who idolized screen legend Marilyn Monroe, gained fame as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1993 and as a model for Guess? jeans. She starred in her own short-lived reality television show and had several film roles. In 1994, she married oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, when she was 26 and he was 89. Marshall, who was worth $1.6 billion, died 14 months later and Smith, spent much of the following decade battling his family over the estate.
(Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Gina Keating in
== = == =
Shots before dying ; Anna seen pounding booze, and her room was full of pills
Anna Nicole Smith's final days were a booze-fueled frenzy that ended in a hotel room so stocked with meds that it resembled a "pharmacist's shop," according to reports. While an autopsy performed yesterday could not immediately determine what killed Smith, witnesses who saw the troubled bombshell in the days before her death say she was partying and falling-down drunk. A bouncer at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, where Smith later died, said the centerfold was drinking into the early morning on Tuesday. "I saw two guys walking her out. She was pretty much all trashed. She was messed up. She couldn't walk on her own. ... Her bouncer was on one side and her lawyer friend on the other," the bouncer said. Just hours before she died, Smith was back at the Hard Rock's 24-hour Center Bar in the middle of the casino floor. A bartender named Mike told the Daily News that Smith was tossing back double shots. "Her eyes were droopy. It looked like she was really, really drunk. She was slurring her speech. She looked plastered," he said. Mike said fans surrounded Smith that night, snapping pictures of her as she laughed and downed drinks. "She talked to a few people but she was mostly concentrating on the drinking," he said. "She was wasted out of her mind, but that's the Anna Nicole me and my friends have grown to know." Smith's hard-partying ways appeared to extend into her posh suite on the sixth floor of the hotel. A source told Star magazine that entering the room was like "walking into a pharmacist's shop." Outfitted with a canopy bed, tall plants and leopard-print hangers, the room was filled with prescription medication including Xanax, Provigil, Vicodin and "a ... lot of methadone," Star reported. During a press conference yesterday, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger confirmed that the hotel room contained "no illegal drugs, only prescription medicine" but would not reveal the types of drugs or to whom they were prescribed.
Tiger also said the surveillance tapes at the hotel had not detected any unusual activity and that there was no evidence that a crime had occurred. According to Dr. Joshua Perper, the
With Tamer El-Ghobashy in
Anna Nicole's personal pharmacy
Among the prescription drugs reportedly found in Anna Nicole Smith's death room:
Methadone: A powerful opiate painkiller, it is in the same drug category as morphine and codeine — often used to help heroin addicts beat their habit. Causes severe drowsiness and can potentially interact with hundreds of other drugs.
Provigil: A secret favorite of pilots and hospital doctors working graveyard shifts, this central nervous system stimulant keeps users alert and awake. Side effects include anxiety, nervousness, depression, irregular heartbeat and dozens more.
Xanax: Prescribed for depression, anxiety disorders and panic attacks — and, occasionally, fear of open spaces — this brain-bending benzodiazepine drug is notoriously habit-forming.
Fentanyl lollipop: A powerful narcotic painkiller often given to cancer patients, especially children. A berry-flavored one sold under the name Actiq sells for about $25 a "pop" on the street.
= = = =
TrimSpa in trouble after Smith's death
Marketing experts say TrimSpa's close association with its spokeswoman could spell disaster for the business. By Jessica Dickler, CNNMoney.com staff writer
February 9 2007: 3:39 PM EST ;NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The death of sassy spokeswoman Anna Nicole Smith coupled with growing doubts about TrimSpa's controversial weight-loss products may prove too much for the closely held company, marketing experts said Thursday. "Given the double whammy of who their spokesperson was and the other tangential difficulties, I don't think they're going to come back," said Robert Passikoff, a
Right after Smith came on board, TrimSpa sales ballooned 172 percent to $43 million in 2004 from close to $16 million in the year earlier. But by 2006, sales had shrunk to $19.5 million, according to Information Resources, Inc., a data-tracking firm. A spokeswoman for TrimSpa said the company did not know if Smith was taking the weight-loss drug, which does not require a prescription, at the time of her death. Authorities said they retrieved a "large amount" of prescription medicine from Smith's hotel room, according to CNN. "The company was in trouble with or without Anna Nicole," said a source familiar with the company.
CNN: Smith can't be buried until paternity hearing "When you mention TrimSpa, the image that came to mind was Anna Nicole Smith and that's the difficulty with being so closely tied to a celebrity," Passikoff said. "You've just pulled the rug out from under what the brand was standing on," he added. The former Playboy Playmate and reality TV star became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa in October 2003, after losing a reported 60 to 70 pounds.
But Smith and TrimSpa have faced repeated legal difficulties over allegations that advertisements for the weight-loss pills were misleading. "It's a matter of making reasonable and moderate claims that are backed by real substantiation," said Ralph Fucetola, former lawyer for the company. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission said it fined the marketer of TrimSpa and other over-the-counter diet drugmakers $25 million for false advertising. The government agency said that the company's weight-control claims were not supported by scientific evidence. "While TrimSpa disagreed with the FTC it made a business decision by consenting to a $1.5 million payment in order to end the FTC's over two-year investigation," a spokeswoman for TrimSpa told CNNMoney Friday.
The company still contends that its weight-loss drug, along with diet and exercise, can yield successful results. "TrimSpa has some major challenges given the loss of credibility about their product and [now] losing their spokesperson," said Britt Beemer, the chairman of strategic marketing firm
1 Comments:
A.N.Smith, truly the Millenium Marilyn but with none of her talents. RIP.
Post a Comment
<< Home