Posted on 02/09/2007 3:16:57 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Footage of the final moments of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's life sold for more than $500,000 Thursday after a media bidding war, according to Splash News & Picture Agency, the paparazzi outlet that sold the rights to the tape.
The video shows paramedics working on the unresponsive reality star as she was wheeled from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. Splash News screened the videotape to potential media buyers at their Los Angeles headquarters just hours after Smith's death Thursday afternoon.
Emergency responders appear to administer CPR on two separate occasions as the TrimSpa spokeswoman was wheeled out of the hotel on a gurney, according to FOX News Channel producer Christopher Spinder, who viewed the tape.
"At one point they kind of started to look like they were going to put the gurney onto the ambulance and they kind of pulled the gurney back out a little bit so they could do a second administering of CPR," Spinder said.
Her companion and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, is not visible in the video.
The two-minute tape, shot from three different angles from a distance of about 50 feet, shows Smith's sheet-covered body, with an oxygen mask over her face, being taken out of the Hard Rock Hotel by a gaggle of emergency responders, including paramedics and police.
"You cannot see her face, you cannot see hair flowing out from underneath the mask," Spinder said. "Again if someone didn't tell me this was Anna Nicole Smith, I totally would not have known it. You can't even tell it's a woman."
The video shows footage of the ambulance driving away from the hotel under a police escort, then cuts to the ambulance at Memorial Regional Hospital just after 2 p.m. ET Thursday.
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I believe that death is too personal to share.
...to share with gawkers. Family, on the other hand, IS personal.
Not too much thinking involved in whether I'd want my death posted on Youtube.
She needs to go home and find herself before she makes another poor lifestyle choice.
Things that make you go hmmm.
At least now maybe that child will have the chance for a somewhat normal life.
Is it a term of sympathy?.....Is there meaning behind it?....A lot of folks on this forum say this, and I know they're being kind....
...but from all accounts, this woman spent most of her life in a lifestyle of 'me first'...
..the poor besotted elderly millionaire she bilked was a 'me first' kind of person too....taking what he wanted.
..will he 'rest in peace'...?
How can folks who lie, steal, extort, consume copious amounts of drugs, frolic naked....in other words, a hedonistic lifestyle....rest in peace?
Where do they go to do this?
In death she has left and can now rest from the trials and tribulations of this world. Let God decide after that.
..but my point is in death, we are not 'resting'....we are not taking a 'nap'....we are in eternity....either Heaven or Hell.
If in Heaven, we're singing praises to God forever and ever...Amen.
If in Hell, we are separated from God for eternity....and ....
Everybody's quick to assume foul play, but though she looked good for her age, I'd bet she had the heart of an eighty year old woman. Yes, Virginia, drugs & alcohol really do kill. No conspiracies necessary at all.
Anyone who's ever seen Anna Nicole Smith in person or on camera anytime over the last twenty years could easily see that she was committing slow-motion suicide, while all of her parasitic 'friends' and that repulsive leech of an unemployed lawyer who calls himself her 'husband' averted their eyes & did nothing except pick her pockets while she was still here. Pigs. Every last one of them.
I believe that in spite of our earthly sins, there is some good in each of us and that our All-Knowing God is a magnanimous God. When we die, we are ending/resting from this life and go on to face God, WHO decides our eternal fate.
... she ignored all warnings from loved ones, breaking their hearts in the process, and the wakeup call she should have had from her son's death.
Considering her lifestyle of drugs and in-our-faces hedonism, it is not an untimely end.
..but we are born in sin...
...only by Grace through His atoning sacrifice are we redeemed from the pit.
I think somebody should make sure that Howard K. Stern does not get near Danielle (sp?), the 5-month old daughter of Anna. Too many coincidences here...
Always glad to see the ghouls are out in force immediately to turn a quick buck from a tragic situation. There is no conscience or sense of propriety whatsoever from these people
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Mark Davis mentioned this sometime during his show on WBAP this morning.This video shows the fight for Anna Nicole Smith's life.
Footage of the final moments of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's life sold for more than $500,000 Thursday after a media bidding war, according to Splash News & Picture Agency, the paparazzi outlet that sold the rights to the tape.
Here is the direct link to the video page:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=726f2c9700
Capitalism Rocks!
"It is a sad commentary on society."
Stay tuned - and follow the money trail.
The mother apparantly was warning ann not to get married - that Stern killed the son and would kill her too.
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