The 31st Playmates victim of Playboy - Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale — Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother — died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.Just five months ago, Smith’s 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be drug-related.
Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith’s bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital.
Through the ’90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. On her reality show and other recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.
“Undoubtedly it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel,” said a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas, Michael Scott.
Another former Smith attorney, Lenard Leeds, told the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ that Smith “always had problems with her weight going up and down, and there’s no question she used alcohol.” Leeds said it was no secret that “she had a very troubled life” and had “so many, many problems.”
“She wanted to be like Marilyn her whole life and ironically died in a similar manner,” Leeds said. Monroe died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962.
Smith attorney Ron Rale told The Associated Press that he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.
“Poor Anna Nicole,” he said. “She’s been the underdog. She’s been besieged … and she’s been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she’s endured.”
The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She became Playboy’s playmate of the year in 1993. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. In 1992, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $550 million.
In a 2005 interview with ABC, Smith recalled meeting Marshall at what she called a “gentleman’s club’ in Houston. “He had no will to live and I went over to see him,” she said. “He got a little twinkle in his eyes, and he asked me to dance for him. And I did.”
Marshall died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a feud with Smith’s former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, theThe stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.
Smith starred in her own reality TV series, “The Anna Nicole Show,” in 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in “The Hudsucker Proxy” in 1994.
After news came of Smith’s death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who represented Marshall, said in a statement: “We’re very shocked by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family.”
In a statement, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said: “I am very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole’s passing. She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally.”
Smith’s son died Sept. 10 in his mother’s hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.
An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he died accidentally of a combination of methadone and two antidepressants. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled aforma inquiry into the death for March 27.
Meanwhile, the paternity of Smith’s now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn’s father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith’s most recent companion. Smith’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he was the father.
Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said Birkhead “is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our No. 1 priority.”
Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.
She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia.
She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.

In times of existence of Playboy died 30 Playboy Playmates of the Month, including 7 from a shrine, 5 in failures (4 in motor-car and one in aviakatasrofe), 4 from heart troubles, 4 died of overdose, 2 finished suicide and 2 were killed…
Linne Nanette Ahlstrand is a miss July 1958. Died in 1967 from a shrine.

Betty Blue is a miss November 1956. Died in 2000 from a heart attack.

Missy Cleveland is a miss April 1979. Died in 2001.

Tonya Crews is a miss March 1961. Perished in 1966 in a motor-car failure.

Claudia Jennings is a miss November 1969. Perished in 1979 in a motor-car failure.
Connie Kreski is a miss January 1968. Died in 1995 from a shrine.

Cheryl Kubert is a miss February 1958. Died in 1989 (suicide).

Jayne Mansfield is a miss February 1955. Perished in 1967 in an accident.

Joni Mattis is a miss November 1960. Died in 1999 from a shrine.
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Eve Meyer is a miss June 1955. Perished in 1977 in an air crash.
Donna Michelle is a miss December 1963. Died in 2004 as a result of heart attack.

Marilyn Monroe is a miss December 1953. Died in 1962 from the overdose of medications.

Merle Pertile is a miss January 1962. Died in 1997 after an unsuccessful operation on a heart.

Jackie Rainbow is a miss September 1954. Died in 1988.

Willy Rey is a miss February 1971. Died in 1973 from the overdose of medications.

Gloria Root is a miss December 1969. Died in 2006 from a shrine.

Pat Sheehan is a miss October 1958. Died in 2006 as a result of heart attack.

Gail Stanton is a miss June 1978. Died in 1996 from peretonita.
Dorothy Stratten murdered in 1980

Star Stowe was murdered in 1997

Elisa Bridges who died over an overdose in 2002

Terre Tucker died 16 December 1990 from a shrine

Marilyn Waltz a miss is April 1954. Died in 2006

Sue Williams miss is April 1965. In 1969 finished living by suicide

Carol Willis is a miss July 1970. Perished in 1971 in an accident

Laura Young is a miss October 1962. Died in 1999 from a shrine.
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Paige Young is a miss November 1968. Died in 1974 from the overdose of medications.
February 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am
you forgot Playmates Dorothy Stratten who was murdered in 1980, Star Stowe, who was murdered in 1997, and Elisha Bridges who died over an overdose in 2002
February 11th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Thanx Elena, you are right, i will add tham
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