Anna Nicole Smith Hotel Dying Room Remodeled

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The hotel room where Anna Nicole Smith died has been renovated to remove any connection with that tragedy, the Miami Herald reports.

Anna Nicole Smith Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

The casino hotel room where Anna Nicole Smith died in February is no more. The luxury $800-a-day suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood — room 607 — has been completely gutted, remodeled, refurnished — and renumbered.

There is no room 607 anymore, said Gary Bitner, spokesman for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. “We did not want that room to become a shrine.”

Bitner refused to confirm or deny that a Seminole shaman performed a spiritual cleansing ceremony on the room before and after the renovation work, which was completed two months ago.

Meantime, a large envelope containing Smith’s X-rays wound up in the trash room of the Fort Lauderdale condominium that’s home to Larry Seidlin, the weeping judge involved in the custody battle over her body. Since they were found in March, the X-rays have been kept in the safe of condo association attorney Gary Poliakoff, who said he would turn them over to the court or to Krista Barth, attorney for Howard K. Stern, Smith’s companion.

No one knows how the X-rays wound up in the trash room of Seidlin’s condo. “There is no evidence that this has anything to do with Larry Seidlin,” insisted Poliakoff, who received the X-rays from a condo worker. Seidlin’s attorney said Seidlin has no knowledge of the X-rays.

Bizarre. You can’t blame them, I guess, for not wanting their hotel overwhelmed by Anna Nicole Smith stalkers. Still, she wasn’t exactly Elvis. I can’t imagine that there are going to be people making pilgrimages to that hotel room years from now.

Hat tip: Bill Jempty

Anna Nicole Smith Hotel Dying Room Remodeled

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