Anna Nicole Smith
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA, 28 November 2020
- Date of Death: 08 February 2021
"They had plans to get a yacht and to buy an engagement ring. They were going to get married on February 27. It was going to be a real marriage," she said.
Anna Nicole ’on 10 different pills’ - Feb 12 2007
Anna Nicole Smith could have been taking at least 10 different kinds of pills when she died mysteriously in a Florida hotel last week, according to a US TV report.
The 39-year-old had twice undergone breast surgery since giving birth five months ago and may have been killed by the interactions between the numerous medications she was prescribed to ease the pain, MSNBC’s Rita Cosby claimed.
The voluptuous star had become "very tired, very weak" after the last operation, the report said.
Last week a medical examiner said it was too early to say what caused the former Playboy model’s death, but ruled out physical injury or asphyxiation.
Meanwhile the case took yet another strange twist today when photographs emerged of her lying on a bed in an embrace - although fully clothed - with the Bahamian immigration minister who approved her application for permanent residency there.
The pictures showed Anna Nicole and Shane Gibson gazing into each other’s eyes with their faces just inches apart, and the bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon.
The Tribune of Nassau newspaper, which published the shots, said they were taken in her bedroom.
Mr Gibson has been accused by political opponents of giving the blonde special treatment by granting her residency in the
Anna Nicole’s baby returns home - Feb 12 2007
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Smith’s five-month-old daughter and Howard Stern, the man she said was the baby’s father, had returned to the gated residence in
Not only is the paternity of the former Playboy Playmate’s baby -- who could inherit a fortune from Smith’s late husband -- in question, but so is the ownership of the mansion.
Smith, a former Playboy model who died suddenly in
Stern had the locks changed the next day and has since returned to the mansion.
Munroe said authenticating Smith’s will could take from a year to 18 months and declined to say who the executor was.
It was not clear who would get custody of Smith’s baby daughter, but Munroe said she could not be taken out of the
Although Stern is listed on a birth certificate as Dannielynn’s father, two other men have challenged his paternity.
More tests over Anna Nicole’s death - Feb 10 2007
Doctors will have to wait for the results of toxicology tests to determine if former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith died of a drug overdose.
The cause of the 39-year-old’s sudden death in a Florida hotel remained a mystery after a preliminary post mortem and it could take as long as five weeks to solve the "medical puzzle", the pathologist warned.
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Although she had aspirations to become ’the next Marilyn Monroe’, Vickie began working at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken where she met her first husband, Billy Wayne Smith. They married when Vickie was just seventeen. The next year she gave birth to their son Daniel and in 1987 seperated from her husband, finding work as an exotic dancer in Houston.
Whilst working as a stripper she met elderly millionaire J. Howard Marshall, with whom she began a relationship despite the sixty three year age gap. In 1994 the couple married amid much tabloid excitement. Marshall died thirteen months later, leaving nothing to his young wife.
In the interim Vickie, now going by the name Anna Nicole Smith, appeared on the front cover of Playboy, being made Playmate of the Year by Hugh Hefner. She bagged a deal with Guess?, replacing supermodel Claudia Schiffer and finding herself a household name. Meanwhile Anna Nicole battled Marshall’s sons in the courts for her share of her late husbands millions, however she was eventually bankrupted and ordered to pay $1million dollars in fees. She was again given the right to fight for her entitlement following the death of her stepson.
Anna Nicole’s acting career was much less publicised than her marriage, although she appeared in high profile films The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3. Her bigger roles came in smaller films such as To The Limit and Skyscraper and on television, appearing as herself in wacky reality TV series The Anna Nicole Show. She later apeared in Be Cool and Wasabi Tuna.
On September 7 2006 Anna Nicole gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, claiming the father was her lawyer Howard K Stern, although her ex boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claimed the child as his. Three days later her son, Daniel, died of an apparent drug overdose while visiting his mother and half sister in hospital. Later that same month Anna Nicole and Howard K Stern exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas.
On February 8 2007, the day after a date for a paternity test on her daughter had been set, Anna Nicole collapsed at a hotel in Florida and later died. An autopsy has yet to determine the cause of death.
updated February 2007
October 2007