Anna Nicole

[+ purplekow]

RIP Anna Nicole Smith Your life would have made an excellent 19th century Russian novel, most certainly a cautionary tale

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

She was only 39 years old. How incredibly tragic. She was truly a caring and generous person...

 

The 'Anna' that most saw on her reality show (and in subsequent courtroom appearances) was only one, very small, side of her personality.

 

She'll be missed.

 

 

BN

[+ Lucky]

The whole story involving the death of her son and now her is a tragedy. She was scorned because she serviced an old man. She didn't deserve such a troubled life and neither did her son.

[BgMstr4u]

I have to confess that I had not given the ANS saga the attention so many thought it deserved until I saw the notice of her collapse on Drudge earlier today. The Wikipedia article on her lays out her biography as clearly as perhaps it can be, given its huge cast and many complications.

 

I am sorry for her, sorry even if her apparent substance abuse problems were the cause of her death. I am sure she struggled with her demons, and it appears, the demons won. What heart can fail to be moved by such tragedy?

 

I am even sorrier for her child, who will now be the subject of paternity investigations, and who will always live under the shadow of her strange and driven mother. To far too many people her life's value now will be its financial potential should ANS's claims against her late husband's estate be upheld. She would appear to be the sole remaining member of the immediate family, as Smith was not married legally, and so whoever is her guardian will benefit enormously. The child's "father" (not really married to her mother) and the other claimant to paternity will no doubt battle over custody, and many will doubt that either is primarily motivated by her welfare or a desire to give her a home and a family. What a ghastly prospect.

[Guest]

I'm surprised by the above responses. Am I really the only guy who thinks this drug addict and professional shyster got what she deserved? That her daughter has a better chance for a decent, honest life with her out of the picture? I'm surprised the courts don't do more to protect the estates of elderly demented men who fall victim to con-women like her. I'm hard-pressed to imagine how someone could live her life more disgracefully, except that I guess she never actually murdered anyone. What kind of an example does she set, other than an example of how not to lead one's life? What an embarrassment of a legacy! x(

[Guest alanm]

Anna Nicole Smith was estranged from her mom and sister, but wouldn't her mother be the next of kin? Smith led such a scattered life that one would not normally expect her to have a will at age 39, but with Howard K. Stern in the picture a will is likely, a will that leaves everything to him.

[seaboy4hire]

>

>Anna Nicole Smith was estranged from her mom and sister, but

>wouldn't her mother be the next of kin? Smith led such a

>scattered life that one would not normally expect her to have

>a will at age 39, but with Howard K. Stern in the picture a

>will is likely, a will that leaves everything to him.

My thoughts exactly. It'll be interesting to see what he gets out of the will. Also unlike the Bahamas it is unlikely he will be able to buy himself out of this mess. I wonder how many pairs of tighty whities he's went through today?

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

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[BgMstr4u]

She was certainly no role model for anyone. I mourn for her and even more for the mess she left behind.

 

What concerns me more as I think about it is the power that the media have to raise people like this to a kind of stardom, so that a million little girls with good breasts and decent hair begin to think that her life path might be worth taking.

[Louis]

"What concerns me more as I think about it is the power that the media have to raise people like this to a kind of stardom"

 

Exacty...she was like anyone else and had to use a toilet.

Someone besides her has probably died today, that has helped hundereds or maybe thousands of people... but we don't hear about that.

[+ glutes]

What makes this woman so worth of wall-to-wall news coverage?

She was loaded with more plastic than a Tonka truck.

[Luv2play]

I didn't know much about Anna Nicole until last night when I watched the orgy of coverage unleashed by CNN. I had seen an earlier interview given by Howard Stern when the baby was born and thought he was a sleazy type but Anna Nicole was in seclusion at that point because of the death of her son and so I only had a vague impression of what her life had been like.

 

Well, last night CNN dragged out all the available former lovers, friends, enemies, family members (some of whom are also included in the previous category), and assorted celebrity watchers. So ANS's life was laid out in a pretty stark manner. They made the obvious connection to Marilyn Monroe's life but I thought she was more in the mold of Jayne Mansfield in a way, except for the drugs part. In any event, she will not go down in history as MM has, with her oeuvre of films and music forever preserved for posterity.

 

What will be ANS's legacy? A brassy blonde on the hustle, getting rich the fastest way possible. Here at least she emulated MM's advice of "How to Marry a Millionaire". And "Diamonds are Forever". She was the quintessential rags to riches American heroine based on looks alone. Her descent into tragedy was also mythic. But she will be a footnote in American history, as minor as most of what passes for celebrity these days.

[JT Brooklyn]

IMHO..America for whatever reason especially at this point in time, Thrives on the Ups and Downs of "Celebrity"! How else could there be an explanantion for the Paris Hiltons in the World?

 

They Luv to see those who have it and they also have a Fascination when it is taken away! Unfortunately the Ultimate Fascination is in a Young Death! It is a Sad Story for those involved.

 

Personally I alway's found Howard "K" Stern a very Creepy Character! IMHO of course!

:P

[Guest roadhoundnyc]

>She was only 39 years old. How incredibly tragic. She was

>truly a caring and generous person...

>

>The 'Anna' that most saw on her reality show (and in

>subsequent courtroom appearances) was only one, very small,

>side of her personality.

>

>She'll be missed.

>

>

>BN

 

How do you know this? Did someone say this on Access Hollywood?

[+ Charlie]

Dying at 39 years of age does not automatically make one's life a tragedy, especially if those years have been farce.

[Lookin]

Good gosh. I'm sad for Anna Nicole. Like most of us, she was trying to get by, and made some bad decisions along the way. I'm sure the loss of her son was punishment enough. She did get around though. Imagine her as Zsa Zsa Gabor's stepdaughter . . .

 

 

Gabor Husband May Be Smith's Baby's Dad

 

Feb 9, 2:25 PM (ET)

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 first 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 New York. "She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he said. "She wanted to be a princess."

 

He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.

 

But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them. . .

[EXPAT]

from press conference today - no illicit drugs found in Anna Nicole Smith's room - only prescription drugs. Medical examiner said they excluded any physical trauma as a cause of death. Autopsy found only subtle findings in the heart and intestines and they found blood in the stomach which is still not indicative and have not yet determined cause of death. further tests on her blood may take up to 3 to 5 weeks to determine if drugs or a drug combination was the cause.

[JT Brooklyn]

It looks like NOW, all the "LaLaLand Character's" will start Creeping out of the Woodwork! Call the Exterminator!

 

Sounds to me like he's definitely the "Prince" of B/S...Any Facts to backup his Story? LOL :P

[JT Brooklyn]

A Prescription Drug will Kill Ya' Just as Well as an "Illicit" One will! It's ALL in the Paperwork isn't it? :P

[Luv2play]

With all the putative fathers coming forward, it reminds me of that old TV show that ended with the panelists being asked "will the real...please stand up"! :7

[+ deej]

>from press conference today - no illicit drugs found in Anna

>Nicole Smith's room - only prescription drugs.

 

Interestingly, while they found prescription drugs in her room they didn't find any in her stomach. And the part I found most curious of all: no evidence of long term drug abuse.

 

Next they'll be accusing Zsa Zsa of offing her in a jealous rage. (Zsa Zsa does have a history of beating up police officers, you know.) LOL

 

This 3-ring circus is going to be with us for years, I suspect.

[+ purplekow]

Once again I liken this to a Russian novel and now a member of royalty, a prince no less, comes out to say that he too could be the father of the bastard child of out white trash stripper-playboy centerfold-billionaire widow-reality show star-disreputable diet supplement huckstress-child birthing and child losing in the same week mother-suddenly dead celebrity. Oh if only she had been hit by a train.

[+ Italiano]

I never particularly cared for ANS.

 

Every day there are thousands of good people throughout the world who die in sad circumstancies.

I don't say she was not a good person, even perhaps not really a model of dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

 

What sort of grosses me out is the media coverage, the thirst of all the details, the endless TV programs, the comments, the comparison with Marilyn Monroe, everything so typically American....

 

Sad to think that this is what ordinary people want from TV.

[JT Brooklyn]

IMHO.."Celebrity for the SAKE of Celebrity" is Harmless Fun!

 

It's when you get the Celebritiy's who buy into their own "Hype", T.Cruise for example, that is when they begin to Implode!

 

Someone like B.Pitt & Angelina NEVER bought into it. Nor have other's over the Year's!

 

Unfortunately that was not Anna Nicole's Fate! IMHO of course! :P

[Guest Merlin]

It is not at all clear that she died from substance abuse. It is suspicious that both she and her son have died within a year of a cause difficult to determine. Her "husband", if there is a valid marriage, will probably inherit a half or a third of her estate and her claim against her first husbands estate, and if he is the father of her child will get custody, and control of the child's share. Whether they were not married is not clear. Even if they did not get a marriage license, 16 states (and possibly the Bahamas) still have valid "common law marriages" which valid informal marriages with the correct intent. Perhaps I am too suspicious, but there seems to be an underlying plan here.

[RockHard]

RE: Charlie says your life is a farce.

 

Can't imagine how you'd feel about your favorite big-dicked, porn-puppy escort, who mysteriously turns up dead at the ripe old age of 39. But I guess you're THE MAN we bow to for defining when someone's life has been a farce. (Especially when you don't have any person relationship with the person who died.) Charming.