On February 8, 2007, Smith was found unresponsive in a room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. At 1:38 p.m. (18:38 UTC) Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a nurse in Smith’s sixth floor room called the hotel front desk, who in turn called security, who in turn called 911, and at 1:45 p.m. a bodyguard administered CPR before she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced DOA at 2:49 p.m. Smith’s husband, Howard K. Stern, was with her when she died and has reported to Entertainment Tonight that her temperature was running high the night before. An autopsy is expected to be performed to determine an official cause of death.
As reported by Reuters, on Wednesday (February 7), a Los Angeles judge had set a February 21 deadline for Smith to complete a DNA paternity test of her five-month-old daughter, as part of a lawsuit by ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father from a two-year relationship with Smith.
Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones.
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