CELEBRITY VIDEO Anna Nicole Smith dies at 39
Police gave a news conference after former model Anna Nicole Smith was found dead in a Florida hotel.
Anns Nicole Smith has been confirmed dead of a suspected drugs overdose.
She was rushed to hospital after collapsing at a hotel suite in Hollywood, Florida.
The former Playboy model, 39, was “not breathing and unresponsive” when paramedics arrived at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, where she was staying with her lawyer boyfriend Howard K. Stern.
It was confirmed she was dead at around 8.40pm (UK time).
She was 26 when she married 89-year-old wheelchair-bound oil tycoon J Howard Marshall II in 1994.
When they met two years earlier, she was working as a topless dancer in a club in Houston, Texas.
Marshall’s death 14 months later triggered a legal battle between Nicole Smith and Marshall’s son Pierce, who died unexpectedly earlier this year, aged 68.
Legal experts say Nicole Smith, who has not received any money from her late husband’s estate since his death in 1995, was looking to be the likely winner of the bitter battle over his fortune.
In September last year, Nicole Smith’s son Daniel, 20, was found dead in the Bahamas hospital where she had given birth to daughter Dannielynn Hope just three days earlier.
The former model was due to give evidence at the inquest into his mysterious death from a drugs overdose.