R.I.P. Anna Nicole Smith

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There are many questions surrounding the untimely death of Anna Nicole Smith, Here is what we know so far from fellow celeb blogger Perez Hilton:

- The former Playmate checked in to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida on Monday.

- Smith, who had stayed at the resort before, was accompanied by her lawyer and "boyfriend" Howard K. Stern.

- Anna's five-month-old-daughter, Dannielynn, is in the Bahamas. The infant was under the care of the mother of Shane Gibson, a high-ranking Bahamian official, who is a close friend of Smith's.

- Another lawyer for the blonde, Ron Rale, revealed that Smith hadn't "been well the past few days, she's had cold and flu symptoms."

- Anna's private nurse discovered her unconscious in her hotel room yesterday afternoon.

- Smith's bodyguard unsuccessfully tried to revive her body.

- Paramedics who arrived at the hotel administered CPR, in addition to inserting a tube in her mouth to facilitate breathing.

- The streets were shut down by local police to get Anna to the nearby (three miles away) Memorial Regional Hospital hospital faster.

- Smith was dead by the time she arrived at the emergency room and her body was already covered.

- The medical examiner has been called to pick up Anna's body.

- Her hotel room will be roped off as it is now part of an investigation that will begin into her untimely death.

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The former Guess model and playmate was known more for her life off-camera than on. She dropped out of high school and became a topless dancer in Houston, Texas. She appeared in Playboy in 1992 and was named Playmate of the Year in 1993.

In 2002, she The Anna Nicole Show," on the E! Entertainment network which was the network's highest-rated program at the time.

In 1994 she married 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II, who had an estate valued at $1.6 billion. He died the next year, and until her death Smith waged a legal battle over the inheritance that included a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

"It's way too early for me to even guess what's going to happen in terms of other claims on behalf of the child," said Rusty Hardin, a Houston attorney who represents the Marshall family.

Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit against TrimSpa, a company for which she was a spokeswoman in commercials and ads touting her weight loss.

Smith also was embroiled in a dispute over the paternity of Dannielynn Hope, who was born three days before the death of her only son.

Larry Birkhead, an entertainment reporter and photographer who has claimed to be the girl's father, will be filing an emergency order to obtain DNA samples to determine paternity, said his attorney, Debra Opri.

Smith and Stern have both said that Stern is Dannielynn's father. Stern has said the couple planned to marry, but it was unclear whether they had.

Rale said he would be in court to oppose the DNA order. A hearing is set for 8:30 a.m. this morning.

"On the instructions of the experts, we had to move in for a DNA order tomorrow morning, and we're going in for that," Opri said.

On news of Smith's death, Opri said Birkhead was "inconsolable." "He has lost the mother of his child, and he has lost a woman he loved very much," she said.

~These report was compiled from CNN.com and PerezHitlon.com.

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