Anna Nicole Smith has died at the age of 39, after being found unresponsive in her hotel room today at the Seminole Hard Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, but efforts to revive her were unsuccessful.
Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn, on September 7, 2006, but her 20-year-old son from her first marriage, Daniel, died of a suspected drug overdose just days later. A former exotic dancer who appeared in Playboy in 1992 and went on to become Playmate of the Year in 1993, Smith leaves behind a tangled legal battle over her octogenarian ex-husband J. Howard Marshall’s billion-dollar estate.