Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapsing in Florida

February 8th, 2007

Hollywood, FL - Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel and being being rushed to a Florida hospital.

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According to reports, fire crews and emergency personnel performed CPR on Smith and put a tube down her throat.

According to a witness on the scene, when rescue workers arrived, Anna Nicole was unresponsive.

Local streets were closed off to rush Smith to the hospital, three miles away. Paramedics were seen pumping her chest as she was taken from the hotel.

Her bodyguard was also reportedly visibly shaken at the scene.

On Tuesday, Smith and the diet products company TrimSpa Inc., for which she is a spokeswoman, were sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging their marketing of a weight loss pill is false or misleading.

Smith also was order by a judge to have baby daughter undergo paternity testing. The test is being sought by Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who claims he is the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. She was born Sept. 7 in the Bahamas.

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