Sources tell "Entertainment Tonight" that Anna Nicole Smith died this afternoon after she collapsed at a Florida hotel. Her lawyer later confirmed her death.
WFOR-TV in Miami first reported that Smith had been found unresponsive in her hotel room Thursday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
Smith, 39, was reportedly taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla. Officials there told the Miami Herald, "It does not look good."
A spokesman from the fire department told CNN that a call was received after 2 p.m. Her partner, Howard K. Stern, tells ET that Anna Nicole's temperature was running high last night. The couple was shopping for a new boat in Florida.
Witnesses told CNN that they performed CPR on Smith and that a tube was put down her throat.
The past year has been a turbulent one for Smith. She was facing a paternity suit filed by her ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, who claimed to be the father of her infant daughter, Dannielynn. The baby was born Sept. 7 in the Bahamas. Smith's son, Daniel, 20, died suddenly just days after the baby's birth.
"Larry is devastated," Debra Opri, a lawyer for Birkhead, told CNN before word of her passing. "We hear it's very serious. I've never heard Larry so concerned. He's concerned about Anna and he's concerned about the child."
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston. She married Billy Wayne Smith in 1985 when she was 17 and he was 16. Together they had a son, Daniel. After separating in 1987, she took Daniel and moved back to Houston where she became an exotic dancer and began taking modeling and voice lessons.
In 1992, she appeared on the March cover of Playboy magazine, and went on to become 1993's Playmate of the Year.
She met billionaire J. Howard Marshall at the topless bar Gigi's in Houston in 1991. They married in 1994. At the time, she was 26 and he was 89.
He died the following year at age 90, leaving behind a fortune estimated at as much as $1.6 billion. She battled with his two sons over the inheritance of her husband's estate. The case was still in the courts at the time of Smith's death.
In the following years, Smith had her own reality show, "The Anna Nicole Smith" show on the E! cable network and was a spokesperson for TrimSpa.
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