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Name : Vicki Lynn Hogan
Known as Anna Nicole Smith
Birthday : November 28, 1967
Birthplace : Houston , Texas
Occupation : Model , Actress
She was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman.
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Anna Nicole Smith was born Vicki Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967, in Houston , Texas . After her father abandoned her and her mother when she was a child, she was raised by her mother and aunt, commuting back and forth to each caretaker.
At the age of 17, Anna (then Vicki) married Billy Smith, and that same year, they welcomed their son Daniel into the world. Time with Billy was short-lived and young Anna was left to care for her son alone.
Anna Nicole Smith dances topless
In order to pay the bills, she began working at topless bars in Houston , where she was actually more noticed for her rear than for her breasts (she did not yet have the breasts that she's famous for today). But since she was not as rail-thin as the rest of the dancers, Anna didn't work the coveted hours of topless clubs and was instead scheduled during the afternoon shift.
Regardless, Anna (who then used several pseudonyms such as Nikki and Robin, before finally sticking to Anna Nicole) was discovered by a photographer, and quickly realized that she could use her body as a career tool. Since her childhood dream was to become the next Marilyn Monroe (her idol), Anna was inspired to make a name for herself.
Anna Nicole Smith gets plastic surgery
After a breast enlargement (Anna insisted on having two implants inserted into each breast) and some cosmetic surgery, Anna was ready for the big time, and ironically, headed in the same direction as Marilyn Monroe. She entered the Play .. boy Cover Contest, and appeared on the cover of the magazine at the age of 24. Two years later, Anna was crowned 1993's Playmate of the Year, which although is an honor in itself, led Anna to bigger and better things.
Thanks to her Play . boy appearance, Guess? president Paul Marciano, also responsible for the modeling careers of Eva Herzigova , Josie Maran and Shana Zadrick , saw Anna's potential and cast her as a Guess? model.
She made her big screen debut in the 1994 slapstick comedy, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult , followed by an appearance in The Hudsucker Proxy , starring Tim Robbins.
A nna Nicole Smith Marries J. Howard Marshall
If audiences didn't catch Anna in these films, they surely heard of her questionable marriage to oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II -- 60 years her senior -- on the 27th of June 1994. Anna remained low-profile with her wheelchair-bound husband, until Marshall 's death in 1995.
In 1996, the former Play . mate filed for bankruptcy, after a former female assistant sued her for sexual harassment (she would have had to pay $850,000 U.S. ).
Anna Nicole Smith inherits $450 million
Although Marshall had left Anna with an inheritance, his heirs claimed that she could not receive what he left her, accusing her of mistreating him in his last few days and not marrying him for the right reasons. She was not mentioned in any of his wills, but claimed that he offered her half of his money, to speed up her decision to marry him. After a bitter court battle between Anna and Marshall 's son, E. Pierce Marshall, Anna was rewarded $450 million in 2000.
Anna Nicole Smith does reality tv
On August 4, 2002, the E! channel began airing its first season of The Anna Nicole Show . Although Anna had gained a considerable amount of weight, viewers tuned in to watch Anna make a fool of herself week after week.
Before the second season started, producers of the show demanded that Anna drop some weight before shooting began, and with the help of TrimSpa, a supplement that claims to block fat from entering the body, Anna trimmed down significantly and reportedly lost 80 pounds.
Although Anna Nicole looked great, The Anna Nicole Show was canceled in 2004.
Anna Nicole spent the next few years plagued with conflict. Her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in 2006, and Anna was stuck in the middle of a suit to determine the paternity of her daughter, Dannielynn, in 2006 and 2007.
Amidst all the conflict, on February 8, 2007, Anna Nicole was found unconscious in her Florida hotel room. She was pronounced dead upon arrival to the hospital.
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Who's Dannielynn's Father?
April 12, 2007
Finally Dannielynn's DNA test was released yesterday, Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern embraced before cameras as result of a paternity test was announced. and Larry Birkhead is officially the father. Howard K. Stern, who was listed as the father on the birth certificate, says he won't fight for custody and will do everything in his power to make sure Larry Birkhead gets full custody.
Anna Nicole Case Gets More Appealing
February 27, 2007
Paternity, custody, burial, residence—three weeks after Anna Nicole Smith 's death and the scorecard still reads 0 for 4.
And there appears to be no quick resolution to the tug-of-war over the custody and burial of Smith's remains, which got further bogged down in the Florida legal system Tuesday.
Virgie Arthur, Smith's long-estranged mother, formally staked her claim with the state's 4th District Court of Appeal Tuesday, only to be met by more resistance from both Howard K. Stern and Richard Milstein.
Arthur is seeking to have the higher court overturn the pass-the-buck ruling made by Judge Larry Seidlin last Thursday, in which the probate judge granted custody of Smith's supposedly decomposing remains to five-month-old Dannielynn via Milstein, her court-appointed guardian ad litem.
Seidlin gave Milstein sole discretion of where to bury Smith's body and, for a fleeting few hours Thursday afternoon, all parties seemed to be in agreement that Smith should be buried alongside son Daniel in the Bahamas.
However, the following day, Arthur filed an emergency motion to block Smith's remains from being removed from the Broward County medical examiner's office, where they have been kept since her Feb. 8 death, pending her appeal of Seidlin's ruling.
On Monday, Seidlin refused to reconsider his decision, but the 4th District Court of Appeal was more amenable, approving Arthur's request for a stay and giving other parties until 2 p.m. Tuesday to lodge any challenges to the appeal.
Which they did, in droves.
Milstein filed an appeal asking the thee-judge panel to uphold Seidlin's ruling granting the Miami lawyer next-of-kin status on behalf of Dannielynn. Attorneys for Stern also filed an appeal, seeking to prevent Arthur from being granted custody of Smith's remains.
"This case presents the tragic circumstances of Anna Nicole Smith's untimely death and the sad irony of her estranged birth mother's efforts to place her in death where she never wanted to be in life," Stern's attorneys wrote.
The appellate panel will hear arguments on Wednesday. There's no word on when the judges are expected to rule, but Stern appears confident of a victory. E! Online has learned he is already inviting guests to attend a funeral ceremony in Nassau set for Thursday.
Meanwhile, there is negligible movement in the Bahamas on who should be granted custody of five-month-old Dannielynn, currently in the care of Stern. Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead has claimed paternity and has filed legal claims in California, Florida and the Bahamas. Arthur also asked the Bahamian authorities to grant her custody, but she was turned down Monday.
Over the weekend, Stern showed dramatic signs of lowering his resistance to Birkhead's paternity claims, allowing him to spend one-on-one time with Dannielynn.
In an interview with Access Hollywood , which aired on the Today show Tuesday, Birkhead shared how he fed, burped and was thrown up on by Dannielynn.
Birkhead said he knew all along that Dannielynn was his daughter, and seeing her simply confirmed it.
"She's mine. That's my baby. She looks like me—she is mine," he added.
TMZ is also reporting that attorneys for the two men are hashing out a settlement that might result in Stern dropping his claim to paternity in exchange for a percentage of Smith's estate.
Should a deal be brokered, it may make moot other pending litigation.
Birkhead is currently waiting to hear back from a Florida family court judge on an emergency motion filed Friday to obtain and test DNA samples from both Smith and Dannielynn to establish paternity. Judge Lawrence Korda has yet to rule on whether he will comply with a California order to release Smith's DNA (a sample of which has already been taken). First, Korda says he must decide if he even has the jurisdiction to do so.
Meanwhile, Stern was granted something of a legal reprieve Monday in a separate legal battle over the ownership of Horizons, where Stern lived with Smith and currently resides with Dannielynn.
South Carolina real estate mogul and former Smith paramour G. Ben Thompson says he never gave the property to Smith, as she and Stern claimed, and is seeking to be declared the owner. But Stern won't be facing any eviction notice just yet—the Bahamian judge presiding in the case has scheduled another hearing for mid-March.
Finally the Body of Anna Nicole Smith Can Be Embalmed
February 15, 2007
Anna Nicole Smith's body remains stuck in the morgue, but the lawyers feuding over it agreed in Florida on Thursday that a funeral director could begin the embalming process, perhaps as early as Friday. But the issue of who controls the body and where it might be buried will linger until at least Tuesday.
Earlier on Thursday, a judge ruled that an expert working for ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will be allowed to review DNA samples taken from the body to make sure no one will substitute other samples in the paternity fight over Smith's daughter Dannielynn.
Probate Judge Larry Seidlin also ordered the medical examiner – at the request of Birkhead's attorneys – to take one more oral swab of Smith's body for review by Birkhead's expert, as the former boyfriend wages his fight to prove that he, and not Smith's companion Howard K. Stern, is the child's father.
The order came after nearly three hours of argument and testimony. Attorneys for Birkhead, Stern and Smith's mother Virgie Arthur gathered in Fort Lauderdale to lobby for control of Smith's body.
The hearing, held in a crowded conference roon attended by at least six lawyers, with another on the phone, took a midday break but will resume later today.
During the hearing, Joshua Perper, the medical examiner who has Smith's body in cold storage following her death Feb. 8, repeated that he has saved enough samples for the death investigation and to prove eventual paternity. "There is absolutely no justification for additional tests," he said.
But attorneys for Birkhead, who repeatedly say they fear a "bait-and-switch" of DNA samples that might work against Birkhead, pushed for review of those tests along with more testing, and asked the judge not to release the body just yet. Birkhead's DNA expert, Michael Baird, pushed for the additional oral swab, and the judge agreed after Perper said it was a simple process that could be done today.
Still unresolved is the matter of who will get the body, a decision the judge hinted may not come for several days. Smith's mother, who wants to bury Smith in her native Texas, sat silently through the hearing.
Neither Birkhead nor Stern – who wants to return the body to the Bahamas to be buried next to Smith's son Daniel, who died last September – were present.
Anna Nicole Smith Dies
February 8, 2007
Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale ,Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother — died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.
Just five months ago, Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be drug-related.
Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith's bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital.
Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her Marilyn Monroe looks, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, and her over-the-top revealing outfits.
Recently, she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement. On her reality show and other recent TV appearances, her speech was often slurred and she seemed out of it. Some critics said she seemed drugged-out.
"Undoubtedly it will be found at the end of the day that drugs featured in her death as they did in the death of poor Daniel," said a former attorney for Smith in the Bahamas, Michael Scott.
Another former Smith attorney, Lenard Leeds, told the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ that Smith "always had problems with her weight going up and down, and there's no question she used alcohol." Leeds said it was no secret that "she had a very troubled life" and had "so many, many problems."
"She wanted to be like Marilyn her whole life and ironically died in a similar manner," Leeds said. Monroe died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962.
Smith attorney Ron Rale told The Associated Press that he had talked to her on Tuesday or Wednesday, and she had flu symptoms and a fever and was still grieving over her son.
"Poor Anna Nicole," he said. "She's been the underdog. She's been besieged ... and she's been trying her best and nobody should have to endure what she's endured."
The Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.
In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. In 1992, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $550 million.
In a 2005 interview with ABC, Smith recalled meeting Marshall at what she called a "gentleman's club' in Houston. "He had no will to live and I went over to see him," she said. "He got a little twinkle in his eyes, and he asked me to dance for him. And I did."
Marshall died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a feud with Smith's former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.
The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.
Smith starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.
After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who represented Marshall, said in a statement: "We're very shocked by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family."
In a statement, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said: "I am very saddened to learn about Anna Nicole's passing. She was a dear friend who meant a great deal to the Playboy family and to me personally."
Smith's son died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.
An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he died accidentally of a combination of methadone and two antidepressants. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled a formal inquiry into the death for March 27.
Meanwhile, the paternity of Smith's now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion. Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he was the father.
Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said Birkhead "is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our No. 1 priority."
Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.
She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia.
She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.
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