Just breaking:

“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, was with her when she passed, her attorney, Ron Rale, told FOX News.

The former Playboy Playmate was found unresponsive Thursday in her Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino room in Hollywood, Fla.

Emergency responders performed CPR at the scene and a breathing apparatus was inserted in her throat, hotel officials told TMZ.com. Smith was immediately transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood just after 2 p.m. EST.

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.”

Hollywood Florida is right down the road from me, been to the Hard Rock a few times as well. As a former 911′er, I have some friends in Hollywood Fire Rescue, so I’m trying to find out what happened, but phones are jammed, no doubt the local media is in a feeding frenzy. No matter what you think about Nicole, her tragic life and death further exacerbated by an tabloid media, there is nothing much to say at this point but wish her peace at last.

Local News:

“She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow,” said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for the hotel.

Officials said her baby was not with her, but she was accompanied by her husband and four others, including a nurse, said hotel president Michael Bloom.

Bloom said the hotel received a call from her nurse just after 1:30 p.m. requesting assistance.

“She was obviously in distress,” Bloom said of the ex-Playboy Playmate

Five minutes later hotel security and emergency medical technicians responded to her room and contacted local fire and rescue teams.

Smith was taken to Memorial Regional shortly after 2:10 p.m.”

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