Just as Holly Madison wrote her own story a few years ago, surely many people would have been curious about Anna Nicole Smith’s life from her perspective. The story of the playmate, who died at the age of 39, was not ordinary, and ended in tragedy. In several ways.
Anna was originally born in Houston as Vickie Lynn Hogan. His mother and aunt took the most part in his upbringing. He left the grammar school there at the age of 14 after falling out of his peers in his first year. For the second time, he didn’t even want to try learning, he started working in a fast food restaurant. She eventually married her job owner, Billy Wayne Smith, at the age of 17.
Her modeling career began at the age of 25, when she appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine one day in March. He was contacted not long after and offered to replace Claudia Schiffer in a Guess campaign. The blonde gladly said yes and took on the name Anna Nicole, which is still known today. After setting a model for the brand, the headlines and invitations followed one another, but it didn’t get as much recognition everywhere as it longed for.
Anna and her first husband had a son, Daniel, who was inseparable from blonde until her early death. The couple embarked on separate journeys in the year after the baby was born and then divorced in 1993. Then came into the picture J. Howard Marshall, the oil magnate.
The businessman was about 62 years older than his chosen one, and his family vehemently opposed the covenant, but in the end they failed to stop him. The photos taken at the wedding were sold to Getty Images by the People for nearly a million dollars.
The marriage lasted barely more than a year, and the young wife became a widow — and at the same time, the onslaught of the oil tycoon’s legacy between Anna and Marshall’s family began. Although the woman was not in the will of her late husband, she claimed that her master had verbally promised her half of her wealth. Of course, Marshall’s son Pierce also claimed the estate, but in the end both parties died before the case could be closed by the court.
While the lawsuit was still in full swing, Anna tried to be successful on the movie screen and on TV from time to time, but the profession didn’t recognize her. Of course, this was not surprising, as no director promised a serious role, only a silly blonde character who conformed to stereotypes. It should be mentioned, however, that his short-lived reality show was adored in America, sort of as a sinful pleasure his viewers looked at him.
As for the model’s privacy, her last years are pretty hard to work out. In June 2006, she announced that she was expecting a child, and her baby girl arrived in September. Three days later, Anna was visited by her son at the hospital. Daniel died in his mother’s hospital room and was found to have had a methadone overdose after autopsy. At the funeral, Anna allegedly shouted that if her son was buried, he would go with him too.
In the midst of grief, another scandal erupted. This time, the papers wrote about who Anna could actually be the father of Anna’s little daughter, Dannielyn. Howard K. Stern, the model’s attorney, claimed the child was his, but Larry Birkhead also registered against him as the baby’s father. Stern was recorded in the birth certificate as his little father. Anna and the man also exchanged rings on September 26, 2006, but the papers needed to recognize the covenant were eventually not issued, so they were not officially married.
Anna was found dead in her hotel room a few months later. The bodyguard and his wife also tried to resuscitate the model for a long time, but in the end they were not saved after being transported to the hospital. An autopsy said a mixture of a pile of prescription drugs caused his death. The tests also showed sedatives, painkillers and growth hormone in his body, so it could be revealed that the model was severely addicted to drugs, which, as it turned out, was matched by his partner. Stern also packed two doctors who constantly falsified prescriptions for the drugs, providing thousands of pills to the model. The court also ruled out murder and suicide, and Anna died of an accidental overdose due to medication mixing. Her little girl was only a few months old at the time.
Although Stern was recognized as Dannielynn’s father, Larry Birkhead asked for a DNA test again after the model’s death, after which it turned out he really had the child. He then understandably requested that the little girl’s birth certificate be changed so that she could be included as a father. Dannielyn has been raised by the photographer ever since.
Although Anna Nicole Smith and E. Pierce Marshall did not survive the oil tycoon’s wealth distribution lawsuit, their successors to this day would squabble the businessman’s billions if they could. However, the judge dealing with the case stumbled in 2017 and said he was unwilling to continue to deal with money from people they hadn’t earned, meaning he was no longer working on the case, which had been dragged on for decades. Mike Wood called the reluctance of his relatives ridiculous, but he believes that the case will not end with his resignation either, as family members are the ones who do not want to end it, he wrote earlier. Forbes.
As for the model, his life story has been processed in many ways, and books and movies have been made to paint a portrait of him. There was even an opera made from her story in 2011, but her little daughter’s father, Larry Birkhead, didn’t look at it very well. Although the photographer did not see the stage work, he heard that his former counterpart was not properly presented in the performance, so even then he decided to sue the makers. How the case has finally ended has not been known since.
(Cover photo by Anna Nicole Smith. Photo: Paul Harris / Getty Images Hungary)
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