The Ghost of Anna Nicole Lives On |
 This past weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Anna Nicole Smith at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Along with it came plenty of news stories reflecting on the former Guess and Playboy model's larger-than-life persona, the lifestyle she seemed to love flaunting to the world and her accidental overdose on a lethal combination of prescription drugs. But for travel geeks, the most interesting tidbit of information surrounding Smith's death is not so much what happened, but where - and what's happened there since.
As we reported back in August 2007 (You Can’t Stay Where Anna Nicole Died), the room where Smith was found is no longer. After Smith was found unconscious in room 607 of the hotel and died later that day in the hospital, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel gutted and remodeled the three-room suite and even went so far as to change the all room numbers on the sixth floor. Why? To deter visitors with a taste for the macabre from visiting the hotel in hopes of sleeping in the room where Smith last laid her platinum head. (Yeah, we know. Guess you'll have to cross one destination off your "must visit" list.)
Room 607 - at least the version that existed when Smith fatefully checked into the Hollywood, Fla. hotel last February - may no longer be part of the hotel, but some guests say that the room's removal hasn't stopped the blond bombshell from sticking around. According to one (cough, tall) tale, Smith was seen on New Year's Even in the hotel lobby:
Now at least one guest that attended a party there earlier this year believes that she has spotted Anna's spirit wandering the resort....The guest tells the weekly entertainment magazine In Touch that she believes that she saw the late star's ghost wandering the hotel. “The ghost looked just like Anna,” Pont says.
Riiiight. All we can say is that must have been one fun party.
Anna, R.I.P.
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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008
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