Anna Nicole Smith found in hotel room unresponsive

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

I think the fact that the drug bottles all had Howard K. Stern's name on it is very telling . These meds have obviously not been taken under the watchful eye of a single physician.

You know his defense is going to be that they were staying in the same room and she took his pills.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by CelticGypsy

Isn't Zsa Zsa hubby super old................never mind

He's actually only 59, while Zsa Zsa is 90.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

You know his defense is going to be that they were staying in the same room and she took his pills.

From what I understand, they were antibiotics and some Valium, which are not what people OD on. Also, if she had a nurse, the nurse would be administering the pills.

The final autopsy will say for sure though.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

The plaintiff's attorney is thinking they are going to bait and switch Dannilynn with a different baby.

I could see that happening. I heard Cyril Wecht say they had plenty of Anna's DNA from the autopsy...there is no need to hold her body at the morgue until Feb. 20th.

Also, is it that uncommon for celebs to have scripts in other peoples names? I would not be surprised if Stevie did not do the same back in the day. I am not shocked ANS's scripts were in Howard's name. I am actually starting to wonder about him. The way he slowly cut her off from everyone really bothers me.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

From what I understand, they were antibiotics and some Valium, which are not what people OD on. Also, if she had a nurse, the nurse would be administering the pills.

The final autopsy will say for sure though.

I heard now she had TWO nurses with her. One was her bodyguard's wife and another one was a nurse she has had since she had pneumonia and a collapsed lung in early Nov. The fact she had no pills in her stomach makes it seem like she did not OD. The medical examiner did say her body did not show any signs of illicit drug use, ie needle marks. I bet she mixed some antidepressants with the valium and perhaps some other prescribed drug, like methadone...and the combo supressed her heart and respirations. Same thing that killed her kid.
The whole thing is a tragedy.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Kelly

I could see that happening. I heard Cyril Wecht say they had plenty of Anna's DNA from the autopsy...there is no need to hold her body at the morgue until Feb. 20th.

Also, is it that uncommon for celebs to have scripts in other peoples names? I would not be surprised if Stevie did not do the same back in the day. I am not shocked ANS's scripts were in Howard's name. I am actually starting to wonder about him. The way he slowly cut her off from everyone really bothers me.

It is disconcerting to say the least. I can certainly understand why a celeb would have a script in someone else's name. Remember the time when one of Stevie's empty script bottles was taken from the trash in her hotel room and put up for auction on eBay?
Ethically though, I do not know the boundaries of prescribing meds in someone else's name. I think the FDA might take a dim view of that. Don't we have a med student/pharmacist on this board that could comment on that?

[Livia]

Current "baby daddy" possibilities: 4

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-418242c.html

Anna's baby girl may be from sperm her
husband had frozen before he died at 90


Anna Nicole Smith's death became even more bizarre than her life yesterday as a series of bombshell revelations uncovered an ever-growing web of sexual intrigue - including the startling claim that her late billionaire husband may be the father of her infant daughter.
The stunning disclosure comes in a no-holds-barred manuscript written by her half-sister Donna Hogan obtained exclusively by the Daily News.

Hogan alleges that her sister froze the sperm of 90-year-old J. Howard Marshall years ago, and believes she may have used it to become pregnant.

The revelation topped even the unseemly paternity suit that raged in a Los Angeles court less than 24 hours after Smith's death.

The former Playmate's live-in companion and her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead both claim they are the father of baby Dannielynn - the little girl who could inherit up to half of Marshall's $1.6 billion fortune.

They weren't the only ones laying claim to Dannielynn yesterday.

Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, flew to the Bahamas yesterday to see her grandchild for the first time. The infant had been left with friends in the Bahamas.

And amid all the legal maneuvering, Zsa Zsa Gabor's wacky husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, made the bizarre claim that he fathered Smith's daughter. A publicist for Gabor, 90, said von Anhalt was full of it.

But even the battle to be named the father of Dannielynn was overshadowed by the claims in Donna Hogan's unpublished manuscript.

In the aptly named "Train Wreck" - written with author Stacy Brown - Hogan says: "I wouldn't be shocked at all if it's J. Howard's. She saved his sperm after all and that maybe [sic] her trump card in her fight to get the old man's estate."

Depicting her half-sister as ever calculating, Hogan wrote that Smith was "seeing into the future. ... She takes Howard in to have his sperm tested. When the results show that he is still fertile, she has a quantity of his sperm frozen."

Hogan wrote that when her half-sister announced to the world she was pregnant, she declined to name the father.

"To her family, she hinted that she had used the old man's frozen sperm, and would be giving birth to Howard Marshall's child," the manuscript claims.

Later in the book while discussing the paternity fight, Hogan unleashed one of her many scathing descriptions of her half-sister.

"That's my sister for you. That b---h probably doesn't even know who the father is. Soon she'll probably say it's J. Howard's," Hogan wrote.

Hogan could not be reached for comment yesterday, but in an interview with "Inside Edition" she said, "I don't want people to talk about the crazy stuff. ... I want them to remember her for being full of life."

Nevertheless, Hogan describes a campaign by Smith to marry the aging oil baron and then the cold hearted way she treated her "Paw Paw" after the ring was on her finger.

Hogan, who uses Smith's given name Vickie in the manuscript, wrote that her sister met "Old Man Howard" at a Houston strip club called Gigi's, where Smith worked as a stripper and the wheelchair-bound geriatric was a regular.

"For several weeks, she played hard to get, before agreeing to grant him special favors outside the club," she wrote.

Smith married Marshall in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89 - over the objections of the oil man's son, E. Pierce Marshall.

After the wedding, however, she treated her husband like a dog.

"She refused to allow him to lie next to her, stating that he would urinate in bed," Hogan he wrote.

Smith tore through Marshall's finances accumulating jewelry, houses, luxury cars while cheating on him "with household servants, girlfriends and married men."

She would leave him for weeks at a time, refuse to return his many phone calls, and when she did spend time with him, Smith was often oblivious to his frailties.

Once, Smith dragged Marshall out to dinner even though he was ill and "left J. Howard in his wheelchair in the rain."

But when Marshall finally had enough, Smith scampered back "to ensure her place as heiress to his fortune."

"Do you miss your rosebuds?" Smith said at one encounter with breasts bared and a tape recorder running, Hogan wrote.

"Train Wreck" states that Marshall "clearly loved Vickie," and that he called her almost daily, calls she generally ignored. She didn't even visit the old man for the last month of his life.

At the end, Marshall had had enough.

"On the night before he died, J. Howard refused Vickie's phone call. He died tired of Vickie," Hogan wrote.

Marshall's death in 1995 set off a court battle for his $1.6 billion estate that continues to this day.

The bitter legal war with Marshall's son lasted a decade, but it immediately became a fierce fight over every little detail of Marshall's life - even his remains.

The son and widow went to court over who got possession of Marshall's ashes and they decided to split the ashes - what Hogan calls a "half-ash settlement."

[estranged4life]

Any Ledgies claiming to be the father of her child? Just thought I would ask and see

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

Any Ledgies claiming to be the father of her child? Just thought I would ask and see

my lawyer told me not to talk about it publicly, but since you asked ...

[Beachwood Mac]

We will probably see all the paternity tests on the Maury Povich show..."You are NOT the baby's Daddy!"

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by Beachwood Mac

We will probably see all the paternity tests on the Maury Povich show..."You are NOT the baby's Daddy!"

the Maury Poor-bitch show? Anything but that....

Edit: Saw this on one of the wrestling news websites:

Former WWE Diva Joanie "Chyna" Laurer appeared on Larry King Live on CNN last night to talk about the sudden passing of Anna Nicole Smith. They have a connection because they filmed the movie "Illegal Aliens" last year (it's supposed to be released in April, but the movie's release may be put on hold). Laurer started off by telling King that she "saw this coming" and that she felt sorry for her friend Anna because people often made fun of her. Laurer was in the studio and ended up arguing with Monique Goen, the wife of Trimspa CEO Alex Goen, who was in a separate studio. Goen accused Laurer of using Smith's death to get publicity for herself. Goen also said that Anna called Laurer "a stalker" and that she was not friends with her. In the months prior to Smith's death, Laurer said that she tried to call her, but Anna wouldn't return her calls. Although, Laurer was fine with it because she felt that Anna wanted to be isolated from everyone while she was going through a rough time. Laurer also said that she was often invited by Anna "to come over and hang out at the pool," thus meaning that they were friends.

[strandinthewind]

If she used the Marshall sperm, that would be a very interesting case because as his heir and other than some contractual waiver, that baby is due the inheritance along with his other kids. But, she seemingly would have done this way before this.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

If she used the Marshall sperm, that would be a very interesting case because as his heir and other than some contractual waiver, that baby is due the inheritance along with his other kids. But, she seemingly would have done this way before this.

Maybe she wanted to lose the weight and be (relatively) healthier before getting pregnant?

[strandinthewind]

^^^

Maybe she did want to lose the weight. Who knows. This whole thing is just so bizarre!

[strandinthewind]

More logs on the fire - from fixnews.com

Attorney Takes Control of Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas Mansion

Saturday , February 10, 2007

NASSAU, Bahamas —

The locks at the Bahamas mansion where Anna Nicole Smith had been living were changed Saturday for the second time in 24 hours, as a lawyer for the late reality TV star said he had retaken possession of the estate.

Outside the gated mansion known as "Horizons," attorney Wayne Munroe also told a small scrum of reporters that he had filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment and other personal effects allegedly taken from the home. He did not disclose further details.

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The 39-year-old former Playboy playmate, who died at a Florida hotel on Thursday, had claimed that U.S. developer and former boyfriend G. Ben Thompson bought her the house as a gift.

The impromptu press conference outside the mansion's gates came several hours after Godfrey Pinder, an attorney for Thompson, announced he had taken control of the residence in the exclusive New Providence neighborhood by changing the locks on Friday on behalf of his client. Thompson has said the house was on loan to Smith, with whom he had a brief relationship.

But Monroe said the property belongs to Howard K. Stern — Smith's companion, who is listed on a birth certificate as the father of Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

He added that he did not know the whereabouts of Dannielynn, who is at the center of a broadening legal battle, but emphasized that Stern is due custody of the baby.

"As the other registered parent, Howard Stern has the right to speak to the custody of Dannielynn. That has to be respected unless and until a court — not a person — says otherwise," Munroe said, standing next to Pinder.

Smith's ownership of the mansion, which her lawyer said she bought in July for $900,000, was the basis of her claim to residency in the Bahamas. In a lawsuit, Smith asked a court to recognize her purchase and reject a claim on the house by Thompson, a South Carolina developer.

The island chain's Supreme Court has scheduled a Feb. 26 hearing on the matter, Munroe said.

Witnesses reported seeing Stern inside the mansion with TV crews shortly before the attorneys spoke to reporters, and Munroe confirmed that he was in Nassau. Several SUVS with black-tinted windows exited the gated mansion's grounds earlier.

Earlier in the day, Pinder said Bahamian Immigration Minister Shane Gibson's mother was permitted into the waterfront home late Friday to remove some of Smith's personal effects, including clothes and jewelry. The government official was a friend of the late reality TV star.

And on Friday, a pickup carried a crib and an infant's car seat from the mansion to Gibson's house in the middle-class Marathon area. Later, a baby could be heard crying inside the house. Gibson did not return calls seeking comment Saturday.

The exact whereabouts of Dannielynn, who was not with Smith on Thursday when she died in Florida, were unclear Saturday.

Experts say the decision of who receives custody could determine the child's inheritance. Smith was in a long legal battle over the fortune of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

Smith's mother arrived Friday in Nassau, where the late star's son died last year under mysterious circumstances, to check on the welfare of her granddaughter, according to Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner for the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Arthur, who was reportedly staying in a resort in Nassau's famed Cable Beach, could not be reached for comment Saturday. She told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she believes her daughter died from a drug overdose.

A birth certificate for Dannielynn lists Stern as the girl's father, but two other men have challenged for paternity. A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed suit claiming he is the father. On Friday, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, announced that he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may be the girl's father.

Smith gave birth to Dannielynn on Sept. 7. Three days later, her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, died while visiting her in the hospital. A medical examiner hired by the family concluded he died from an accidental, lethal combination of methadone and antidepressants, but results of an official autopsy have not been released.