EXPLOSIVE NEW CLAIM: SMITH CHOKED ON HER OWN VOMIT  —  According to a credible source, an employee of Anna Nicole Smith found her in her room in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.  The employee pulled back a sheet and discovered that she appeared to have choked on her own vomit.

Source: Illegal Drugs Found In Anna Nicole's Room  —  Friday Morning Autopsy Expected To Shed More Light  —  SLIDESHOW OF THE DAY: Celebrity Real Names Revealed  —  (CBS) LOS ANGELES CBS 2 has learned that while searching Anna Nicole Smith's hotel room late Thursday afternoon investigators found …

Anna Nicole Smith is Dead  —  Former Playboy Playmate and Trimspa spokesperson Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday afternoon after she was discovered lying unconcious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.  She was 39.

Anna Nicole Smith Dead  —  Anna Nicole Smith has died in Florida, her attorney, Ron Rale, confirmed to MSNBC Thursday.  —  Sources say Smith was rushed to the hospital after being found unresponsive in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., where she was staying with her companion, Howard K. Stern.

Anna Nicole Smith collapses, dies at 39  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale — jeans model, Playboy centerfold, widow of an octogenarian billionaire, reality-show subject, tragic mother — died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel.

Anna Nicole Smith's Wikipedia Entry Defaced As She Died  —  In the minutes following Anna Nicole Smith's death today, her Wikipedia page went totally postal.  A few bits of web-graffiti saved for posterity after the jump. … Talk: Anna Nicole Smith [Wikipedia]

ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S LAST MOMENTS: COMING TO A STREAMING VIDEO WINDOW NEAR YOU  —  Paparazzi agency Splash's promise of CPR video might strike you as excessively opportunistic and morbid, but someone's got to step up and chase the ambulance (figuratively, in this case), even when it's most difficult to do so.

Anna Nicole Smith Dead  —  ET has the latest news on the tragic, unexpected death of Anna Nicole Smith at 39.  —  ET confirms that ANNA NICOLE SMITH died Thursday afternoon at a Florida hospital after she was found unresponsive in her hotel room.  She was 39.

Family, friends grieve loss of tabloid star … (CNN) — Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former model whose life as a Playboy centerfold, billionaire's widow and reality TV star made her the center of tabloid attention, is dead.  —  She was 39.  —  Smith was found Thursday …

Anna Nicole Smith Rushed To Hospital  —  Access Hollywood has learned that Anna Nicole Smith has been rushed to the hospital in Hollywood, Florida.  —  A news conference is scheduled momentarily in front of Memorial Regional Hospital.  —  Sources confirmed to Access that Anna Nicole …

Anna Nicole's Death: The Key Questions  —  Following Anna Nicole Smith's death Thursday in Florida, many key questions remain:  —  How did she die?  —  Unknown.  An autopsy Friday and a toxicology test will ultimately decide cause of death.  Smith had battled health problems recently …

Anna Nicole Smith dies after collapsing  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Tuesday after collapsing at a hotel.  She was 39.

Anna Nicole: A Look Back at Her Life  —  Divorced as a teen, widowed at 27, and now dead at 39, Anna Nicole - or Nikki, as people in her hometown of Mexia, Texas, first called her - lived a life worthy of a soap opera.  —  When she was only 17, she married 16-year-old Billy Smith, who worked with her at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS DEAD, HER LAWYER SAYS  —  Reality star Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.  —  Smith, 39, did not respond to CPR, and her boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, 38, was with her when she died, her attorney Ron Rale told FOX News.

LAWYER FIRES FIRST SHOT IN BATTLE OVER ANNA NICOLE'S BABY  —  The lawyer for the man claiming to have fathered Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter vowed to file an emergency court order Friday to have the late ex-Playmate's DNA tested before her body is released to her family.