Report says illegal narcotics, prescription medications were found in Smith's hotel room.
(HOLLYWOOD, Fla.) - Anna Nicole Smith, who some compared to Marilyn Monroe, died Thursday after collapsing in her hotel room at the at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino in Florida.
She was 39.
An autopsy will be performed Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to determine the cause of death.
WCBS-TV in New York is reporting that while searching Smith's hotel room, investigators found illegal narcotics and prescription medications.
A toxicology report will determine whether one of these drugs or a combination of both substances contributed to her death.
Yesterday's Chain of Events:
At 1:38 PM EST a nurse traveling with Smith called 911.
At 1:45 PM EST her bodyguards started CPR on Smith in her hotel room according to Seminole County police officials.
She was pronounced dead at 2:49 PM EST.
She arrived at the hotel on Monday with a party of four including her husband Howard K. Stern.
Police also think that Smith's 6-month old daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is at the couple's home in the Bahamas.
CNN is reporting that Larry Birkhead, who says he is the biological father of Smith's six-month-old daughter, has filed an emergency court order to gain temporary custody of the child.
That hearing is scheduled for Friday in Los Angeles.
According to news reports Smith collapsed this morning at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Hotel officials said Smith was "unresponsive" and emergency responders performed CPR at the scene and a breathing apparatus was inserted in her throat.
She was immediately transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood just after 2:00 PM EST.
Detectives are in Smith's room gathering evidence and looking for drugs.
Beverly Hills publicist Edward Lozzi called Smith very funny and dumb like a fox.
Her Life:
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas on Nov. 28th, 1967.
While growing up, Vickie told others she wanted to be the next Marilyn Monroe. While working as a waitress at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, she met Billy Wayne Smith, who was the cook at the restaurant.
They were married April 4th, 1985. She was then age 17 and he was 16. The next year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith.
A high-school dropout, initially she found employment at Wal-Mart and later as a waitress at Red Lobster, but could not make enough money to support herself and Daniel. She then became an exotic dancer.
Vicky and Billy were officially divorced February 3rd, 1993, in Houston.
Smith's career took off after she was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March 1992 issue of Playboy wearing a low-cut evening gown.
While performing at Gigi's, a Houston strip club, in October 1991, Smith met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship. During their two year relationship, he reportedly lavished gifts on her and asked her to marry him several times.
On June 27th, 1994, Smith, age 26, and Marshall, age 89, were married in Houston, which gained international press almost from the very beginning.
Smith gave birth to Dannielynn on Sept. 7th in Nassau; Stern is listed on her birth certificate as the father.
Tragically, Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly on September 10th, 2006, in his mother's hospital room while visiting her and his newborn sister.
An autopsy showed that Daniel died from a lethal combination of Zoloft, Lexapro and methadone.
On September 28th, 2006, Smith and Howard K. Stern exchanged vows and rings in an informal "commitment ceremony" aboard the 41-foot catamaran Margaritaville off the coast of the Bahamas.
Smith was a spokeswoman for the weight loss product TrimSpa.
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission announced that TrimSpa would pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that the company's claims about weight loss were untrue.
After she was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, Smith appeared in ads for Guess jeans.
In 2002, she debuted in her own reality TV series on the E! cable network, The Anna Nicole Show. The series focused on her personal and private life.
The debut of the The Anna Nicole Show was the highest rated series on the network, but critics blasted it and ratings dropped with each successive week.
(Some information on Smith's career from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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