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ANNA NICOLE SMITH

Model and heiress Anna Nicole Smith has died at 39.

UPDATE. No mention yet of Smith’s death in her hometown newspaper. Mexia held a memorial service for Smith’s 20-year-old son last year, following his death in September.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/08/2007 at 06:41 PM
  1. I feel sorry for her 5 month old daughter. That kid, well, actually her potential wealth, really, is going to be fought over by laywers for years.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 02 08 at 06:45 PM • permalink

  2. I will shed no tears for Anna Nicole. Everyone close to her seems to have died under controversial or suspicious circumstances. The baby’s extremely lucky to have outlived such a mother, IMHO.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 08 at 06:52 PM • permalink

  3. Anna Nicole Smith died a long time ago.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 02 08 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  4. I had heard the name once or twice but I assumed she was just a very minor celebrity. Was she a big deal or a star or something?

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 02 08 at 07:09 PM • permalink

  5. Ms. Smith had a sad, and short life, but I agree with Mr. Bingley, the child will go through hell and back.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 02 08 at 07:24 PM • permalink

  6. Can a vaccuum leave a vaccuum?

    Good luck to the kid.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 08 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  7. #6.
    She was a better speller than you are.

    Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 02 08 at 07:33 PM • permalink

  8. I understand the cause of death was suffocation while doing handstands.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 08 at 07:38 PM • permalink

  9. I’m with you on her pathetic life, El Cid, but the jury’s still out on the baby’s life. I think that could go either way.

    I used to feel sorry for her son, and when he died my first question was “did he top himself?” He must have felt like he’d die of embarrassment so many times growing up.

    Ahhh, the cult of celebrity.

    Who would want to be a part of it? You’ve got to have rocks in your head.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 02 08 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  10. #2 AlburyShifton, I don’t know about that.  The billionaire died of extreme old age, nothing controversial or suspicious there…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 02 08 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  11. That’s the problem with living your life as the semi-intentional butt of jokes - dignity is denied you even in death.

    Posted by blandwagon on 2007 02 08 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  12. #7 reooww!! pfstst!!

    Posted by murph on 2007 02 08 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  13. #4, this is Anna Nicole Smith.  She proved the old adage that it’s better to be lucky than smart, and tragic if you are neither.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 08 at 07:48 PM • permalink

  14. #7 - And you have proof of this?

    I admit my double c’s were unnecessary, but not as unnecessary as her double f’s.

    p.s Suck my nuts.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 08 at 07:49 PM • permalink

  15. The gene pool’s improved a few points then. The idiot radio station we have piped through our office ‘phones had 20 minutes of blather about the “tragic loss"- what is it with losers who get all blubbery over someone they’ve never met popping their clogs? (Mind you one of the main offenders was a hack from New Idea, so she’s probably having a teary sniffle because she’s going to have to find another vaccuum-headed peurile clothes-horse who’ll root anything with a pulse as along as its got a wallet thicker than New Ideas readership to pen pointless, tedious and inconsequential blather about).

    The only thing I hate more than celebrities are the drooling fucktard who are interested in them. Get a life, you pathetic cretins.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 08 at 08:06 PM • permalink

  16. Steady on Habib! If it wasn’t for the New Ideas at my local Chinese takeaway I’d have to stare at their 70’s flocked wallpaper.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 02 08 at 08:11 PM • permalink

  17. Anna Nicole Smith and those other celebrity airheads are the future.

    And to think people believe global warming is the greatest threat to humanity.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 02 08 at 08:25 PM • permalink

  18. Sure glad I have the life I do...this one was just pathetic.

    Posted by KC on 2007 02 08 at 08:30 PM • permalink

  19. And sympathies to her brother, John Jacob Finkelheimer Smith.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 02 08 at 08:31 PM • permalink

  20. #16 - but they’re 5 years old!

    Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 08 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  21. A rich source of salacious ‘celebrity’ news has now passed from us. No great loss but it did provide 13-odd years of headlines and material for New Idea and the other celeb mags. As Swinish remarked, fish-and-chip shops will be the poorer for it. Nicole Kidman was not in the same league.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 02 08 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  22. Ok, she’s 18, a single mother and a waitress in a chicken joint in Nowhere Texas. Clearly not going to make it through college and Mum isn’t going to send her for a private education. Dad won’t call up his old school pals for a job as a broker.  What to do? 

    Did she make a good job of her life? I don’t think so but boy did she start at the back of the pack of advantages.

    Posted by allan on 2007 02 08 at 08:42 PM • permalink

  23. #15: Mind you one of the main offenders was a hack from New Idea, so she’s probably having a teary sniffle because she’s going to have to find another vaccuum-headed peurile clothes-horse who’ll root anything with a pulse as along as its got a wallet thicker than New Ideas readership to pen pointless, tedious and inconsequential blather about

    That is so great, I think I’m going to ask Mrs. Paco to stitch it on a pillow or something, or maybe make one of those needlepoint wall-hangings ("Honey, let’s take down that ‘No Place Like Home’ crap and put this up!").

    Posted by paco on 2007 02 08 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  24. #22 - I’d rather my daughter was a poor waitress than a glorified whore and stick mag fodder.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 08 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  25. #14. IT.

    “Double f’s.” Nicely played sir! Sometimes there are too many bloody pedants around here.

    Hey Honkie...look a stray apostropheee ‘

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 02 08 at 08:51 PM • permalink

  26. There was a kind of inexorable trajectory to this sad life. Playboy model, enters world of drugs and extravagent waste, gold-digs octogenarian billionnaire, fights with family over the estate, son and new baby collide in weird life vs death scenario, finally all the grief and the angst are too much. The final chapter in her life was written years ago.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 02 08 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  27. Well it was a sad tragedy back then, but enough time has passed - we can laugh about it now. Who would care to make the first Anna Nicole Joke?

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 02 08 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  28. How about- They’re going to have to bury her 8ft down, otherwise the sexton will use her tits as a bike rack.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 08 at 09:13 PM • permalink

  29. Elton John is releasing a single from the song he plans to sing at her funeral.

    Its called ‘Thanks for the mammaries’

    Posted by Nic on 2007 02 08 at 09:17 PM • permalink

  30. Is silicone toxic to worms?

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 08 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  31. So she suffers no further shame, lets hope her body is not donated to the UNSW.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 08 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  32. She was a sad case. But she always made me think about Viagra as being the bane of the trophy wife. Gold diggers marry the rich octegenarians, thinking they can get away with backrubs, then the little blue pill comes along and they actually have to shag the old bastards.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 02 08 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  33. No more digging for gold,
    Now she’s turning cold,
    Poor Anna Nicole,
    Is off to a hole.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 08 at 09:31 PM • permalink

  34. #33

    Does that mean Nicole gets to go down just one more time?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 02 08 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  35. Just like her son she was surdered by Jew snakes.

    Posted by eraserhead on 2007 02 08 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  36. #35 - “surdered”?

    Is that murdered by sucking to death?

    I didn’t know sucking to death was a Jewish ritual.  Oy vey!  The things you learn on the Internet....

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 02 08 at 10:06 PM • permalink

  37. Anyone want to do an under/over on whether Paris Hilton will make it past the mark set by Anna Nicole?

    Posted by jpaulg on 2007 02 08 at 10:18 PM • permalink

  38. Anna was but a child herself when she became pregnan. I don’t anything of her background, but an old man found her beautiful and offered her a life she could only have dreamed of. He stuck it too to his sons and he was happy in his last year. How much worse was it for her to marry him than spend her life as a hooker or fast food waitress.
    I wonder how many would have not leapt at what was offered in HER circumstances.
    In life I had no interest in her antics &I wondered why it made me cry on hearing of her miserable death. Who are we to judge her and how much anguish she must have suffered after her son’s death at her bedside. A difficult enough time emotionally after the birth of the baby for any woman.

    Poor little babe now not only will never know her mother but in all probability not know her father either.

    I do hope that she gets to be brought up by some caring people and money made out of her mothers death or inheritance is placed in trust for her little girl and the man/men in ANNA’S life do not get their paws on any of it.

    RIP poor, sad, Anna Nicole Smith

    Posted by Hillyminx on 2007 02 08 at 10:20 PM • permalink

  39. How touching that you feel a fast food waitress is on par with being a hooker.

    Denny’s must really be a den of iniquity.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 08 at 10:39 PM • permalink

  40. Students in The University of NSW School of Anatomy must be praying they get this donation…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 08 at 10:40 PM • permalink

  41. From the article:

    Paramedics were seen pumping her chest as she was taken from the hotel.

    And lightly stroking it for a further couple of hours…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 08 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  42. By the way, I think it’s safe to say we are all going to hell…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 08 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  43. I am sorry to hear of the death of anyone except a sworn enemy. RIP Anna Nicole Smith.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2007 02 08 at 11:13 PM • permalink

  44. "RIP poor, sad, Anna Nicole Smith”

    I agree.  I read some biographical details of her life (which I assume are true).  Sounded like she had a pretty tough time of it.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 08 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  45. Truly, an evitable death.

    Posted by BruceW on 2007 02 08 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  46. There’s always talk about female gold diggers who marry rich old men, but not much about the old men who make a habit of marrying young girls and women.

    I feel very sorry for Anna Nicole Smith. She didn’t appear to be the sharpest tool in the shed, living a rather sad life in which she seemed to be used and misused by men.

    Odd that her son died under strange circumstances not so long ago, that she’s now gone the same way and that the money awarded to her after years of litigation will now be inherited by a baby who’s being fought over by two men who came out of the woodwork at the same time as the funds.

    I hope there’ll be some investigation.  Most women I know feel great sympathy for her.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 02 08 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  47. The first two things that came to mind:

    -From how many miles away could the collective “STOP THE PRESSES!” shout of the tabloid editors be heard?

    -How long until Elton John writes a weepy tribute song?

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 02 09 at 12:29 AM • permalink

  48. #45 No such thing for any of us, in the long run.

    Posted by Not My Problem on 2007 02 09 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  49. "And it seems to me she lived her life, with two enormous handles in the wind...never fading with the sunset, even when the back pain set in. And her name will always be remembered..along with Texas’ biggest hills...her handle’s arrivin’ long before...Angelina’s ever will....”

    Posted by larrikin on 2007 02 09 at 01:03 AM • permalink

  50.  living a rather sad life in which she seemed to be used and misused by men.

    Um, it appeared to be mutual…

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 02 09 at 01:24 AM • permalink

  51. Methinks she took the Marilyn Monroe thing one step too far.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 02 09 at 01:25 AM • permalink

  52. Dead heat in the Zeppelin race.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 09 at 01:28 AM • permalink

  53. She was never going to die in a car accident with those airbags.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 09 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  54. #46
    A tragicomedy, that we all lead, some worse than others?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 02 09 at 01:57 AM • permalink

  55. #53- reminds me of a bumper sticker National Lampoon had years ago, which read “I Brake For Jayne Mansfield’s Head".

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 09 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  56. Blogs Evil - Cable TV Kind

    The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the web.

    Cruelty online

    Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 09 at 02:21 AM • permalink

  57. #56 - I’m surprised you didn’t tell the SMH to suck your nuts. I would have.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 09 at 03:29 AM • permalink

  58. Oh good grief. According to the SMH, PETA says

    "We always thought Anna Nicole was a perfect fit for PETA because, just like us, she not only hated cruelty to animals and loved her dog but also couldn’t be ignored."

    I hope they are ignored in her will.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 02 09 at 03:34 AM • permalink

  59. News.com.au is reporting that the film of her death and attempted revival has been sold for $500,000…

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 02 09 at 03:46 AM • permalink

  60. #15 another vaccuum-headed peurile clothes-horse who’ll root anything with a pulse as along as its got a wallet thicker than New Ideas readership

    yeah, but where do you find a woman like that?

    /checks over shoulder to make sure wife is watching cricket…

    Habib, like Paco, it is a crime that you are not published.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 02 09 at 03:53 AM • permalink

  61. They are doing the bleeding heart, tragic celebrity beat up story on Today Tonight now.

    And they were banging on about it on the radio as I was driving home (ABC has cricket, I was swapping between B105 & MMM104).

    Posted by kae on 2007 02 09 at 04:41 AM • permalink

  62. #23 re #15

    Yeah, Paco, Habib’s a hoot and I agree with his sentiments.

    Posted by kae on 2007 02 09 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  63. #36 re #35

    Maybe she got hissed?

    Posted by kae on 2007 02 09 at 04:47 AM • permalink

  64. So she was an unwise woman who wanted to be rich and famous, did what she could to get that way and now has paid the price. 

    What did she do to harm any of you apart from intruding on your consciousness via the news media from time to time? 

    When PhatPhil and others like him die I won’t be sorry.  But I feel sorry for that poor, sad woman.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 02 09 at 05:19 AM • permalink

  65. And can you imagine the hagiography that will be gushing out of the ABC when PhatPhil finally does cark it?

    Posted by Janice on 2007 02 09 at 05:27 AM • permalink

  66. This sad event attracted approximately 87 or so comments in to-days online Melbourne Herald. The one comment that struck me, was the ‘sagely’ and might I say, ‘deep’ bit of prose, from a scribe from Broady, who I might add, was putting a plug in for a certain cult and its most loving and tolerant way of life, that they are determined, that we in the West will surely follow, when Hell freezes over. I quote;
    “If this women had followed the Islamic way of life, she would not have been dead now. She would have not been doing the drug, doing the drink and would have been dressed modestly”.
    Well, apart from the way she chose to dress, (her business) thanks for the heads up, and the advice. Now sod off.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 02 09 at 05:37 AM • permalink

  67. I feel sorry for that poor, sad woman.

    god will take her to his bosom (and he’s got HH cups)

    Posted by hooligan on 2007 02 09 at 06:32 AM • permalink

  68. “If this women had followed the Islamic way of life, she would not have been dead now.”

    Nah, she would’ve been honor-killed years ago...or stoned to death by the mad mullahs.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 09 at 06:45 AM • permalink

  69. Conflicted.

    My first response was pretty much John Donne.

    But then I remembered some of the accounts of how she treated those in her life.  The sugar daddy that she didn’t even have the decency to spend the wedding night with, ranks first and foremost (talk about not getting your money’s worth).  Some or perhaps all of the rest was just scuttlebutt.  However I do not rejoice but then again neither do I particularly mourn.

    Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 02 09 at 07:39 AM • permalink

  70. Nicole Smith a deadly joke online: call for DNA from corpse

    Yeah, I understand the SMH usually reserves its deadly jokes for Israeli civilians, U.S. troops and past, and undoubtedly future, Republican (former) presidents.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 09 at 09:59 AM • permalink

  71. It’s a tragedy because the former stripper and Playboy playmate (professions I approve of) died so young and with a baby; while scumbags like Castro and Chavez live long and rule oppressively.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 02 09 at 12:01 PM • permalink

  72. No pity for AnnaNicole but Daniel’s got my sympathy. Imagine what the kid had to endure over his short 20 years. Now that’s a tragedy.

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 02 09 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  73. Who’s your daddy?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 02 09 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  74. Candle In The Wind by Bernie Taupin
    And it seems to me you lived your life
    Like a candle in the wind
    Never knowing who to cling to
    When the rain set in

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 02 09 at 08:35 PM • permalink

  75. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Linda Lovelace ... don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington.

    Posted by McAnzac on 2007 02 09 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  76. Good editorial in The New York Sun about ol’ Anna Nicole.  Excerpts:

    “… she appeared to be having her way with the best lawyers and jurists in the country. At the time, she had just won a ruling from the U. S. Supreme Court that was remarkable not only for being unanimous but also for opening up, at her behest, huge swatches of probate law to future questioning…

    “What the Supreme Court did was credit her strategy in moving the claim out of the Texas probate courts, where she was roundly defeated…

    “There are those who reckon the Supreme Court, dazzled by Vickie Lynn Marshall’s mind, failed to appreciate how far they had skated, in an opinion written by Justice Ginsburg, onto thin ice, with the danger of plunging the federal judiciary into an area of the law, probate, it’d long avoided…

    “… it was a remarkable legal drama, one that had, somehow, a character that reflects one of the wonderful things about America, where many of our great Supreme Court cases have been brought by modest persons, some of whom were criminals, some righteous, some just stubborn, and some just smarter than the other side reckoned.”

    Let’s face it, how many thousand of girls with Anna Nicole’s natural assets stay as small-town waitresses?  It’s not that easy to be as successful as she was and marry an elderly billionaire (he said from experience) when you’ve got busloads of other golddiggers in line with their kneepads ahead of you.  You’ve gotta have some brains somewhere.

    Posted by Clubbeaux on 2007 02 10 at 04:00 AM • permalink

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