Anna Nicole Smith Is Dead

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LAWYER: 'ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS DEAD'
The actress, ex-Playboy Playmate and billionaire's widow Anna Nicole Smith has died in Florida at the age of 39.
She collapsed in a hotel room and was declared dead after being taken to hospital.
"I can confirm that she is deceased. It's as shocking to me as to you guys," said Ms Smith's lawyer, Ronald Rale.
"I don't know anything further. (Her husband) Howard (K Stern) obviously is speechless and grieving."
She was found in her hotel room and given CPR by fire and rescue workers, said Michael Bloom, president of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Ms Smith's nurse called hotel workers at the hotel at 1.38pm local time and security went to the hotel room, hotel officials added.
Emergency staff arrived minutes later and she was taken to the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood at 2:10pm.
Ms Smith had fascinated the tabloid media even before she became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993.
Readers were fascinated by her good looks, her marriage to an elderly billionaire and subsequent court fight over his estate and, last year, the sudden death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith.
Daniel was the son of Anna Nicole and Bill Smith, who married in 1985 and divorced two years later.
Ms Smith had been ordered to have her five-month-old baby girl undergo a paternity test as part of a lawsuit by an ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead.
Mr Birkhead sued in October, demanding she have the paternity test because he believed he was the father of the girl.
She said Howard K Stern, who was also her lawyer, was the father of the baby.