All About Reality Star Anna Nicole Smith Cause of Death

Anna Nicole Smith’s life will soon be the subject of a Netflix documentary. Here’s some information on how the stunning model died.

Anna Nicole Smith was recognized as a model. She rose to fame with provocative Guess advertisements. She passed away unexpectedly in 2007. Anna Nicole’s life and disappearance are examined in the new Netflix documentary You Don’t Know Me.

Anna Nicole Smith, supermodel and reality television personality, lived and died before the public. Anna Nicole (born Vickie Lynn Hogan) did virtually everything in her adult life in the spotlight, from her first campaigns for Guess Jeans to her marriage to mogul J. Howard Marshall.

The platinum blonde beauty and Texas native began her career as a Playboy model in the early 1990s, and eventually landed a contract to become the new face of Guess Jeans, replacing legendary ’90s supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Additionally, she appeared in films such as The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 + 13: The Final Insult.

Anna’s first child, Daniel Wayne Smith, was born in 1986, even though she and her husband Billy Wayne Smith were teenagers when they married.

After her divorce in 1993, she began dating Howard, an elderly billionaire she had met while stripping. They married in 1994 and he died at age 90, just over a year later.

Anna Nicole became embroiled in a long-running dispute over her late husband’s estate, which ultimately resulted in her estate receiving none of the billionaire’s fortune.

Anna later began dating photographer Larry Birkhead, and in September 2006, she gave birth to their daughter Dannielynn Birkhead. On September 6, 2006, just three days later, Daniel, her son, died from a drug overdose.

After tragedy after tragedy in her life, the stunning model died in February 2007, months later. Here’s everything you need to know about Anna Nicole Smith’s cause of death.

When did Anna Nicole Smith die?

Anna Nicole Smith died on February 8, 2007, at age 39. Her death occurred at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, just five months after the birth of her only daughter and the death of her only son.

What was happening in his life?

As mentioned above, at the time of her death, Anna Nicole was going through deep grief and great turmoil in her life. She was reportedly beyond devastated by Daniel’s death at the young age of 20.

“Anna saw herself as a mother and father to Daniel,” her ex-boyfriend and lawyer Howard K. Stern told PEOPLE in 2007 after his death.

“Since I met her, everything was dedicated to Daniel. I would say she died physically last week, but in many ways she died emotionally when Daniel died.”

Just weeks after Daniel’s death, she fled to the Bahamas and held a commitment ceremony with Stern, although they were never legally married. In the months before Danielynn’s death, they also allegedly tried to avoid questions about her paternity.

She also remained entangled in what appeared to be a never-ending dispute over a portion of J. Howard Marshall’s estate. Stern’s lengthy effort, which included appeals, would not conclude until 2014, seven years after his death.

Who was she with?

Former bodyguard Maurice Brighthaupt (Big Moe) and his wife discovered Anna Nicole’s body on the floor of a hotel room in Florida. He and her wife, who was an emergency nurse, attempted to perform CPR on her before transporting her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced deceased at 2:49 p.m.

After ten years, Maurice revealed that he was still “haunted” by the traumatic event and the loss of the brilliant and talented Anna. Although her death occurred ten years ago, I still haven’t fully accepted it, he told The Daily Mail in 2017.

“I did everything I could to help her in her last days and get her medical attention, but she refused. She was surrounded by a group of us and all we did was facilitate her behavior. It took me a decade to realize it, but I was a facilitator. We support these icons. We allow powerful individuals and believe they are larger than life, but we cannot control nature.

“I still have recurring dreams about that day and am haunted by the moment I saw her slip away.”

What was the cause of Anna Nicole Smith’s death?

On March 26, 2007, a month after Anna Nicole’s death, the autopsy report concluded that she died from an accidental overdose of the narcotic chloral hydrate. Combined with various benzodiazepines, Benadryl and Topamax, among other legal medications. While none of the medications in Anna’s system were illegal, others, including Stern, were prescribed to her.

According to Heavy, the autopsy report also indicated that Anna was suffering from “depression following the recent delivery of a full-term baby and the recent death of an adult son.”