Police Investigating Anna Nicole Smith's Death

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Anna Nicole Smith, 39, passed away Thursday at Joe Di Maggio Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. “Anna Nicole is deceased," Smith’s attorney Ron Rale confirms to Us Weekly. "We do not know the cause." At around 2 p.m., paramedics were called to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino after Smith was found unconscious in her hotel room on the sixth floor. "Anna Nicole Smith checked in to Hard Rock for a vacation on Monday night at 8 p.m.,” Danielle Giordano, advertising and PR coordinator for Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, tells Us. “She was due to check out Friday afternoon. She fainted at 2 p.m. here and was rushed to Memorial Hospital." According to a police official, Smith was administered CPR by a bodyguard, but could not be revived. Access Hollywood reports that fire crews and emergency personnel also performed CPR on Smith and put a tube down her throat in an effort to resuscitate the former Guess model. An ambulance transported her to Memorial Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m. Seminole, Florida police Chief Charlie Tiger told reporters, "The cause of death will be determined by the Broward County medical examiner and the Seminole Police Department will continue its investigation into this matter." Smith's son, Daniel Wayne Smith, passed away at age 20 on September 10, just three days after the birth of Smith's daughter Dannielynn Hope. According to pathology reports, Daniel died from a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants. Since September, Smith has been mired in a paternity suit regarding the parentage of her daughter. Photographer Larry Birkhead claims that he is Dannielynn’s biological father, and filed a paternity lawsuit last year. However, Smith has always insisted that her lawyer Howard K. Stern is the baby’s father and he is listed as such on the child’s birth certificate. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles judge ordered Smith and her 5-month-old daughter submit to a DNA test by February 21 in order to determine paternity. Earlier this week, Smith was also named in a class-action lawsuit against the diet pill company TrimSpa, for which she was a spokesperson. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading.