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Nicole Smith |
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Vicky
Lynn Hogan known as Anna Nicole
Smith was born on 28 November 1967,
in Mexia, Texas. Anna Nicole Smith
was a zaftig blonde bombshell whose
career as a celebrity began when
she was named Playboy's Playmate
of the Year in 1993. She starred
in a series of glossy ads for Guess?
clothing, and her busting-out-all-over
appeal made her a popular pinup
in the early days of the Internet.
Then Anna Nicole Smith became the
stuff of talk show one-liners after
she married 89-year-old oil tycoon
J. Howard Marshall in 1994. He died
the next year, leaving Smith to
battle his family for control of
his fortune. The legal wrangling
seemed finished in 2002, when federal
judge David Carter awarded Smith
$88.5 million as her share of Marshall's
estate, but later legal challenges
kept the case alive. Smith's well-known
battles with her weight also led
to her role as a spokeswoman for
TrimSpa diet products. |
Anna Nicole Smith also starred in the
The Anna Nicole Show, a "reality"
TV series about her life which aired from
2002-03. The show cemented her reputation
as a celebrity more famous for being a
celebrity than for anything else. Smith
gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope,
in September of 2006; the event was marred
when Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died
suddenly while visiting her in the hospital
three days later. Legal battles involving
the paternity of her daughter followed
her into 2007, and she was also named
in a class-action lawsuit against TrimSpa.
Smith was found unconscious in her hotel
room in Hollywood, Florida on the afternoon
of 8 February 2007 and rushed to a hospital,
where she was pronounced dead. The initial
autopsy showed the presence of prescription
drugs and ruled out foul play and illegal
drugs, but the cause of death has not
yet been determined.
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