MIAMI (Reuters) - Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who took her fight to inherit from her aged billionaire husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, has died at the age of 39 after collapsing in a Florida hotel room, her lawyer said on Thursday.
"I can confirm that she is deceased. It's as shocking to me as to you guys," Smith's attorney, Ronald Rale, told Reuters. "I don't know anything further. (Her lawyer and husband) Howard (K. Stern) obviously is speechless and grieving.
The sudden death of Smith came just five months after Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, died in the Bahamas three days after the birth of her daughter.
Smith was found in her hotel room and given CPR by Seminole tribal fire rescue and Hollywood fire rescue workers, said Michael Bloom, president of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Smith's nurse called hotel workers at the hotel at 1:38 p.m. and security went to the hotel room, hotel officials said. Fire rescue workers from both the Seminole Indian tribe and from Hollywood arrived minutes later and Smith was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood at 2:10 p.m.
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.
Birkhead sued Smith in October, demanding she have the paternity test because he believed he was the father of the girl. Smith had said her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is the father of the baby.
Smith, who was born Vickie Lynn Hogan and raised in the small Texas town of Mexia, grew up emulating screen legend Marilyn Monroe.
She met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall while dancing at a Houston strip club and married him in 1994, when she was 26 and he 89.
Marshall died the following year and Smith spent much of the following decade battling members of his family over his estate. In May of 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Smith could pursue her case in federal court.
Smith, who modeled Guess Jeans, was named Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1994 and had film roles that year in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult."
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Just saw it .... had to ROFL.
Bet her tits pressed the whole air out of her lungs .... 
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