Post by Arrest-me-red on Feb 9, 2007 13:03:41 GMT 3
I really thought it was a joke ... another young beauty passed away, this is part of the new in the E! web site :
www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=692afa25-abe2-423e-b051-96a001934dfb
The journey that took Vickie Lynn Hogan from topless bars in Texas to worldwide fame as platinum blonde Anna Nicole Smith ended Thursday in a sixth-floor hotel room in Florida.
Hollywood, Florida.
Smith, whose final months were marked heavily by tragedy and controversy, was pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m. local time, after being found collapsed by a private nurse at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
She was a former Guess? Jeans model. She was a former Playboy Playmate. She was a former E! reality TV star. She was 39.
Authorities did not announce a cause of death, which proved just as sudden and shocking as the death of Smith's own son five months earlier. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.
Paramedics were called to the Hard Rock at about 2 p.m.
When asked by WTVJ-TV if Smith was alive when emergency responders arrived, a local fire department captain said, "No, she was unconscious and not breathing."
By that time, Smith had already been administered CPR by a bodyguard. Paramedics performed more CPR and other life-saving techniques but could not revive her. Smith was taken by ambulance to nearby Memorial Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, Seminole police chief Charlie Tiger told an afternoon press conference.
Eyewitnesses at the hospital speculated on what rescue workers already seemed to know: Smith, her body covered, was dead, even as she was taken into Memorial Regional.
Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime lawyer and confidant—with whom she exchanged commitment vows but did not legally wed last September—and the bodyguard were in Smith's hotel room when rescue workers arrived.
"He was concerned," the fire official said of Stern to WTVJ-TV. "He was giving us her medical history."
In Los Angeles, Smith attorney Ronald A. Rale said Stern could barely speak as he phoned the lawyer with word of the death.
www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=692afa25-abe2-423e-b051-96a001934dfb
The journey that took Vickie Lynn Hogan from topless bars in Texas to worldwide fame as platinum blonde Anna Nicole Smith ended Thursday in a sixth-floor hotel room in Florida.
Hollywood, Florida.
Smith, whose final months were marked heavily by tragedy and controversy, was pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m. local time, after being found collapsed by a private nurse at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
She was a former Guess? Jeans model. She was a former Playboy Playmate. She was a former E! reality TV star. She was 39.
Authorities did not announce a cause of death, which proved just as sudden and shocking as the death of Smith's own son five months earlier. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.
Paramedics were called to the Hard Rock at about 2 p.m.
When asked by WTVJ-TV if Smith was alive when emergency responders arrived, a local fire department captain said, "No, she was unconscious and not breathing."
By that time, Smith had already been administered CPR by a bodyguard. Paramedics performed more CPR and other life-saving techniques but could not revive her. Smith was taken by ambulance to nearby Memorial Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, Seminole police chief Charlie Tiger told an afternoon press conference.
Eyewitnesses at the hospital speculated on what rescue workers already seemed to know: Smith, her body covered, was dead, even as she was taken into Memorial Regional.
Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime lawyer and confidant—with whom she exchanged commitment vows but did not legally wed last September—and the bodyguard were in Smith's hotel room when rescue workers arrived.
"He was concerned," the fire official said of Stern to WTVJ-TV. "He was giving us her medical history."
In Los Angeles, Smith attorney Ronald A. Rale said Stern could barely speak as he phoned the lawyer with word of the death.
