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911 tape: Smith not breathing at time of call

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HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- The former centerfold and reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith was unresponsive and not breathing when police called for paramedics last week, according to an audiotape made public Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, and her mother are negotiating with one another on a deal for the release of Smith's body, his attorney told CNN.

On the tape, an officer, apparently with Seminole reservation police, calls the Hollywood Police Department for rescue personnel to be sent to Smith's room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.

"Hello, fire-rescue," the Hollywood dispatcher says. (Watch how the dispatcher handled the call )

"Hi, this is Seminole Police," the caller says, her voice flat and unhurried. "If you can please respond to the Hard Rock?"

"Uh-huh?"

"Room 607?"

"OK."

"It's gonna be referenced to a white female who is umm ..." At this point, the caller directs a question to someone with her. "What is she? Not responsive?"

"Not responsive and not breathing," is the response.

The caller then redirects her comments to the dispatcher at the Hollywood Police Department. "She's not breathing and she's not responsive. She's, uhm, actually Anna Nicole Smith?" (Watch what a nurse did after finding Smith )

"Uh-huh," the respondent says, indicating no recognition of the celebrity's name.

"If you guys can please."

"Oh, OK."

"OK?"

"All right."

"Thank you."

At that, both parties hang up.

The 31-second call was received at 1:42 p.m. Thursday by a dispatcher at the Hollywood Police Department's 911 communications center, said Capt. Tony Rode, a department spokesman.

It was made after a 911 call was made from the hotel to the Seminole Police Department seeking medical assistance, he told reporters.

The Seminole Police Department, which typically passes along all requests for service to the Hollywood Police Department, has not released that tape.

But Hollywood police responded to journalists' pleas.

"We were able to provide this tape to the media because we were inundated with requests to provide them with something, so we did," Rode said.

Six minutes after the call was received, fire-rescue personnel arrived at the hotel. There, they loaded Smith's body onto a stretcher, wheeled it to the parking lot and, at 2:15 p.m., departed for Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, a six-minute journey, Rode said.

There, she was pronounced dead. The cause of death has not been determined.

Negotiations for release of body

Stern is prepared to go to court if negotiations with Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, for the release of Smith's body do not work out, his attorney said Tuesday. Stern is Smith's longtime attorney and companion.

"This has really little to do with Mr. Stern or her mother," attorney Krista Barth said. "It has to do with the wishes of Anna Nicole. That's what we're trying to do here. ...

"It's about allowing someone to rest in peace," she said.

Stern claims Smith told him she wanted to be buried near her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas, Barth said. Daniel Smith died there in September.

"Mr. Stern simply wants to do what Anna told numerous people she wanted," Barth said.

"We were hoping it could be done respectfully -- that her mom could give her what she didn't give her in life. She should allow her to rest with Daniel.

"She does not want to be buried in Texas," Barth said of Smith. "She didn't want to go there when she was alive."

Arthur's Florida attorney did not immediately return a call from CNN seeking comment.

Barth said, however, the two sides are talking.

"Mr. Stern is making every effort to come together," she said. "Unfortunately, if things don't come together, it will have to be resolved in court."

Barth said if negotiations are not fruitful, she will ask a Broward County, Florida, court to release Smith's body to Stern.

Legal fight over paternity

A California court last week requested that Florida authorities not release Smith's body until after a February 20 hearing on a variety of issues related to a paternity dispute over her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope.

Although Stern has claimed to be the child's father and is listed on her birth certificate, a second man, Larry Birkhead, is contesting that in court, claiming he is the father.

A third man, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Frederic von Anhalt, told CNN last week that he could be Dannielynn's father.

"I don't say yes and I don't say no," he said, but added he knows who the real father is. "Let's see how the court rules. ... If it goes to Larry or Howard, I jump in."

Smith also had been embroiled in a 12-year legal battle for a portion of the $1.6 billion estate left by her late husband, Texas oil baron J. Howard Marshall II. Smith married him when she was 26 and he was 89, and he died a year later.

CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report.

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