Anna Nicole Smith; dead at 39.

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

After all this flack from the media and all this attention she collapses and dies.
What a tragic story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_en_ce/anna_nicole_smith

[TygressVirgo]

:eyepop: (10charcters)

[Jetsetlemming]

That's so sad... her son just died a while ago in a similar manner, and she has a newborn baby...

[Digital Masta]

I didn't see this one coming.

[CrazyAce86]

my mother thinks she committed suicide. i'm not ruling that out, but i wonder if the combination of her depression issues and her drugs-- the poor woman's been doped up since at least '95-- just finally caught up to her.

[Masa the Masta]

WHAT?!

Wow. That's...wow.

[Decade]

It's amazing:

We're talking news in my office all week (subzero temperatures ravaging the US, Watada, fallout about the Ad Hoax) and of all things, THIS was what stopped my WHOLE office.

[Angelyne]

I feel so sorry for her baby daughter. Not only will she never know her mother or brother, but she likely won't have a real father (her paternity is in dispute).

Anna's money technically goes to the baby, but her daughter likely not be able to do much with it while she is still a minor. The result is that whoever is named her guardian controls the money until the daughter reaches the age of 18. So either the daughter will be stuck with that creepy lawyer/husband of Anna's who claims to be the father or the random guy who knocked Anna up and is seeking a paternity test. Both of them are probably more concerned with $400 million inheritance than actually taking care of the kid.

Poor kid.

/I'm betting Howard (creepy lawyer) had something to do with Anna's death. There has been a lot of speculation that he had something to do with her son's death.

[Pierrot le Fou]

She was just trying to copy Marilyn Monroe (died at 36) but read the second number upside down.

OD on sleeping pills? Bets anyone?

[SlickWilly440]

Dudes there is like going to bet a huge Conspiracy Theory growing out of this event!

[Hatsumomo]

I feel so sorry for her baby daughter. Not only will she never know her mother or brother, but she likely won't have a real father (her paternity is in dispute).

Anna's money technically goes to the baby, but her daughter likely not be able to do much with it while she is still a minor. The result is that whoever is named her guardian controls the money until the daughter reaches the age of 18. So either the daughter will be stuck with that creepy lawyer/husband of Anna's who claims to be the father or the random guy who knocked Anna up and is seeking a paternity test. Both of them are probably more concerned with $400 million inheritance than actually taking care of the kid.

Poor kid.

/I'm betting Howard (creepy lawyer) had something to do with Anna's death. There has been a lot of speculation that he had something to do with her son's death.

QFT. I agree fully with this post.

[Jiant Flying Panda]

Hmmmm.

It said she had flu and fever symptoms..... Maybe she overdosed on the medications for the sickness? That plus the illness itself should be enough to kill someone.... Well that's my non professional look at it.

A co-worker of mine came up to me and told me t his earlier today. And I was actually shocked, lol.

[Nights_into_dreams]

Poor kid...

Out of respect for her girl, I'm gonna not make any jokes about her until I can think of some that aren't tasteless (unlike her TV show).

[Y.T.]

Hmm. Duh. I bet it was suicide.


It's amazing:
We're talking news in my office all week (subzero temperatures ravaging the US, Watada, fallout about the Ad Hoax) and of all things, THIS was what stopped my WHOLE office.


Another proof, that humans are by mostly interested in inane matters... I mean, why should people worry about being misled, lied to, and given a national catastrophe which dwarfs Vietnam, when they can be shocked and shake their heads that a topologically enhanced gold-digger has kicked the bucket....

[h2orowe]

Another proof, that humans are by mostly interested in inane matters... I mean, why should people worry about being misled, lied to, and given a national catastrophe which dwarfs Vietnam, when they can be shocked and shake their heads that a topologically enhanced gold-digger has kicked the bucket....
Because for the masses and such, someone they see on TV so often and such will appear more human to them than just another statistic. "XXXX soldiers have been killed in Iraq" as opposed to "Blanky McBlankenham, mother of 3, was killed today blahblah". Sad, but somewhat true.


Although Anna Nicole disgusted me, I feel bad for her/her family. Hopefully things turn out well for her new child.

[4letterwords]

I bet it was the trimspa, baby.

[Cherub Rock]

If you keep wearing all that eye shadow you're going to end up like her.

[Stephy]

I bet it was the trimspa, baby.
:rofl: ahh >_<; That's so wrong.. yet made me laugh so hard >_<; ahh!

Its always shocking for some strange reason when a celebrity dies. Like really shocking. "like really!? No... way..." kind of shocking. I'm still in denial the croc hunter is gone. He is just on vacation. Yus, there is no way he is gone!

Like others I feel bad for the infant.

I don't understand her death really. So overdose on something? :worried:

[Jetsetlemming]

She was popping all kinds of pills, just like her dead son. >_>; He died from an OD of pain medicine and anti-deppressants. There's no conclusive cause for her yet, her autopsy is tomorrow.

[Radiance]

I..... No! This is not news! She was an unimportant person, she did nothing for society. She was a gold digger who hit it big and won a court case. I mean I can see the oddity of it, "Gasp, how did she die?" or the pity for her child. However, this is far from the most important news story of the day.

I could almost agree with h2orowe's statement about the lack of anonymity. It is true she was known much more so than any of the soldiers that have died. So she isn't a blanket statistic. I could agree with this, if she was someone important, but she really wasn't. She meant nothing to me. She made a living taking off her clothes and selling weight loss she knew nothing about or hell... even used. I mean what, she inherited all her money then... BAM not one month later she is thin. Liposuction anyone? Society makes me sad. *cry emo tears* Discuss more important things! :O Construct a perpetual motion machine! :O

[Kaji]

...given a national catastrophe which dwarfs Vietnam...

Bullshit. ~3,000 KIA < ~55,000 KIA.

[4letterwords]

If you keep wearing all that eye shadow you're going to end up like her.

You're just jealous that my dick's bigger than yours.

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

You're just jealous that my dick's bigger than yours.

OH YEAH!

Well mine has more spots!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg

[Nuigurumi]

I bet it was the trimspa, baby.

That's the first thing I thought when I heard about it :watson:

If it was suicide, I think I feel worse for her little girl. Granted, she's probably better off not knowing her mother. (I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but its true!) :gloomy:

[Angelyne]

Speaking of Trimspa...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/kem78/booody.jpg

EDIT: http://trimspa.ytmnd.com/

[h2orowe]

Awww... that was sad.

[Beowulf]

I heard she went OD on Vicoden.

But honestly why is anyone surprised by this? She's been a pill popper/drug addict since at least the mid nineties. You can only roll those bones so many times before they come up snake eyes...

[羽之助]

A big "whatever".

[RandomPasserby]

It was the government's inside job!

[Kass]

She was popping all kinds of pills, just like her dead son. >_>; He died from an OD of pain medicine and anti-deppressants. There's no conclusive cause for her yet, her autopsy is tomorrow.

Her son died from a lethal combination of anti-depressants and methadone, not a pain medication.

There won't be a conclusive cause of death for probably two weeks unless it was obvious natural causes. For all the "I heard she ODed on xxxxx," that is all rumor until toxicology comes back and that takes a few days in real life.

[mamba]

would it seem harsh to say a big who gives a fuck? It's not as if we lost a cure for cancer or a great diplomat, we lost a stripper who married an old man for his money and became famous for being famous (read FUCK ALL).

[Jetsetlemming]

Her son died from a lethal combination of anti-depressants and methadone, not a pain medication.

Yeah, I heard on the radio this morning it was methadone. >_>; Damn Kass correcting me before I could edit my post...

[Kass]

This is what happens when you get to work at 5:30 a.m. You get first crack at the sleep deprivation-induced errors of others. :p

And yes, it is a bit harsh to say "who cares?" Her family does and it is always tragic when someone dies young, and especially when the death leaves an infant essentially parentless. However, I agree her death shouldn't garner the news coverage that it is garnering. This was the lead story on our local news ahead of a business in the DC-metro area exploding and injuring several people. I'm thinking that was a bit backwards.

[Jetsetlemming]

The only reason this is getting any more attention that a third page blurb is because her son's death, her newborn daughter and the paternity scandal, and the $400 million of inheritance now up in the air. Whoever gains custody of her kid gets control of a whole lot of money...
That amount of money is plenty enough to fuel more conspiracy theories than Roswell and the moon landing combined.

[Hatsumomo]

This is what happens when you get to work at 5:30 a.m. You get first crack at the sleep deprivation-induced errors of others. :p

And yes, it is a bit harsh to say "who cares?" Her family does and it is always tragic when someone dies young, and especially when the death leaves an infant essentially parentless. However, I agree her death shouldn't garner the news coverage that it is garnering. This was the lead story on our local news ahead of a business in the DC-metro area exploding and injuring several people. I'm thinking that was a bit backwards.


Whoa, whoa, WHAT? I'm in North Carolina, so I haven't heard a word of this. What happened?

[Kass]

Some sort of gas leak (according to TV--take that for what it is worth) at a business in Maryland. Shook (literally, not in the scared sense) the area, scared everyone nearby, all sorts of emergency response and second billing on the local news to a celebrity dying.

[CrazyAce86]

What I hate about this whole deal (beyond the fact it makes bigger news than more troops being killed) is how some people act. I hate people who will make fun of person and call them-- in the case of Ms. Smith-- 'a big dumb blonde bimbo,' and then immediately after their dead they change their tune and say, 'OMG, she was such a nice, beautiful lady!'

Yes, I'm purposefully exaggerating, but you get my drift. If you hated the woman in life, hate the woman death. Fine, don't speak ill of her, that I understand; but don't turn into a hypocrite, either.

I didn't particularly care for her, although she did entertain me in much the same way that Courtney Love and her antics continue to do. I honestly could care less that she died, although I do feel sympathy for her family having to go through yet another hell of reporters and conspiracy theories and public trials. And call me a pessimist, but I don't see much hope of her daughter growing up normally. She will never know her mother, only the public perception of her mother. What will she watch? Her mother's show? Assuming, of course, there's no home movies of Ms. Smith.

How will her daughter be able to look her up on the Internet without coming across hundreds of jokes and comedian routines?

Either this child will be able to stay down-to-earth and deal with it all, or she's going to really resent her mother and everything to do with her.

I'm not shrink or a profiler, of course, so only time will tell. I don't hold much hope for her, though.

[h2orowe]

I'll take the daughter in, raise her as my own. Teach her the ways of the Joseph. Yes... she will make a fine Joseph.

Edit :watson: I'd probably raise her better than the two people who banged Anna Nicole! :O

[Y.T.]

Bullshit. ~3,000 KIA < ~55,000 KIA.

It's not only about deaths .. you see.

It's costlier per month than Vietnam was.
WTF are they wasting the money on ? No carpet bombing of Fallujah...
You know, USAF dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were used by all sides in WWII.
So why it's so bloody expensive? Surely, the graft isn't what makes up the difference ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4201812.stm

Vietnam has nothing except its people .. while Iraq has the second largest proven oil reserves. Huge gas reserves. Moreover, in case of unification of southern Iraq with Iran (Shiites in both), all that oil would go to Iran. Even if southern Iraq is independent, it'll hardly be sympathethic to the US.

They''ll rather sell it to China, you see.

And what's gonna happen if there's a radical new sunni state.. and all those fighters funded by sunni wahabis go to Saudi Arabia, and start raising hell there... But let's hope that's not gonna happen.

[Jetsetlemming]

Keep your political bullshit to the political bullshit threads, kthx.

[Shamu]

I just think this whole thing is sad.
Not that I think Anna Nicole was a great person or anything, but because she was messed up and never gave herself the chance to get out of it and now her little girl is in the middle of this big mess and while many people don't think Anna was a fit mother (I'd agree to that, to some extent), I think it's sad that her little girl will never really know her mother in the true sense of physically being with her mother.
She'll only have what the rest of the world tells /shows her, and it most likely, won't be a pretty picture. =/

[Decade]

So, turns out that the cause of her death WASN'T an overdose on drugs.

Scientists and Warlock's alike agree that the sudden death of Smith was the fact that she was unable to suck out the life from elderly wealthy men, as displayed below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/945000/images/_945797_couple150.jpg