Just as the entrance of Anna Nicole Smith into Hollywood came with a huge explosion, so is her sudden tragic death on 8 February, 2007.

Anna Nicole Smith died after being rushed to a Florida hospital following a collapse at a Florida Hard Rock Casino Hotel; she was 39 years old. According to official reports, Smith was found dead in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida and was unresponsive when an EMT team arrived at her room. Anna was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital after 3pm ET. Her attorney, Ron Rale, confirmed that Anna died at the hospital about an two hours later.

Born in 1967, this voluptuous super model and Playboy centerfold model, Anna Nicole Smith, began as a "Guess" jeans model, became Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1993 then started acting in feature films such as "The Hudsucker Proxy" with Jennifer Jason Leigh, and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" (1994). In both movies, Anna played roles parallel to her public personality. Anna Nicole Smith them appeared in the action thriller "To The Limit" (1995), about Colette, an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villain and his organization of trained assassins for the murder of her husband.

Smith appeared in another action thriller titled "Skyscraper" (1996) about a helicopter charter that soon turns deadly when the female pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.

Anna was born Vickie Lynn Hogan and neglected by her father and was traded between her mother and aunt. When Anna was just 17 years old she met  Billy Smith who she married. That same year the couple had a baby boy named Daniel. As a high school failure, Smith worked at a local fried chicken restaurant and various other small jobs. However, Smith always felt she was meant to be a super star celebrity. Anna moved to Houston, without husband Billy, and started dancing at topless clubs and strip bars. Anna became one of the most admired strippers in Houston. It was at a strip club that Smith met Texan millionaire J. Howard Marshall. Marshall was drawn to Smith immediately and began lavishing her with gifts and money and impressing her with his riches.

Shortly after falling in love with Marshall, Anna had  breast enlargement surgery and Playboy Magazine noticed her new boobs and offered her a full page spread. Her Playboy experience, (she was named 1994's Playmate of the Year), jump started her career in Hollywood as other magazine, television and print jobs filtered her way, including the popular  Guess? Jeans advertisement campaign.

It was Anna's 1994 marriage to  89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall that got the tabloid media calling her a "gold digger and whore". With Marshall's death in 1995 (just 14 months into their marriage), Anna  contested his six wills and eight trusts, all which indicated Anna was to receive nothing, in a Texas probate court. In 1996, Smith declared bankruptcy in California, where a judge ruled she was entitled to $470 million of J. Howard Marshall's estate,  a cause of anger within Marshall's family.

When the E! "True Hollywood Story" featuring Anna Nicole Smith and her sidekick lawyer Howard K. Stern aired in 1997, the network received a surprising reaction from viewers. It immediately became the networks' highest rated show. When MTV aired the smash hit reality series, "The Osbournes" in 2002, E! wasted no time following MTV's tactics, asking Smith and Howard Stern to star in what would become the "The Anna Nicole Show," recounting the daily life of Anna Nicole Smith, her personal lawyer, Howard K. Stern , her young  pink haired lesbian assistant Kim Walther, her little dog Sugar Pie and her amazingly well adjusted son Daniel. Although viewers were regularly humored by Smith's bizarre actions, they were also repeatedly horrified by her obvious drug use, bad language, spoiled girl personality, obese overweight figure and drug induced slurry Southern drawl.

As the show ended production 2004, Anna  used her newborn reputation to team with the diet drug TrimSpa and swiftly returned to her original slender, sexy figure. While Anna appeared more sober and drug free in public appearances than in the past, she would still make tabloid news for her often drugged out, speech slurring and zombie like behavior, such as when she presented an award to Kanye West at the American Music Awards in 2004. 

In 2005, the television reality star also lost her legal appeal to claim a much larger share of Marshall's estate and cash fortune, but as a beloved subject of the tabloids, Anna Nicole found a new job as a syndicated writer for a new variation of the infamous National Enquirer.

In 2007, Anna's son Daniel was found dead in a Bahamas hospital room. In an "Inquest" into his death, the Bahaman courts found Daniel's death was accidental. Several rumors and tons of gossip followed the proceedings, including an investigation of drug use by his family and friends.

Both Daniel and Anna are buried on Bahaman National soil. 

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