Fri 30 Jan 2009
The Sad Story of Anna Nicole Smith
Posted by Sheetal Ahlawat under Random , Reading , parenting , women[2] Comments
Anna Nicole Smith, a Playboy model, became famous when she married oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, who was sixty three years older than herself. After his death, she fought his son for a share of her deceased husband’s estate. She was also the subject of many sex scandals after the birth of her daughter, when several of her former lovers claimed paternity for the child including her lawyer Howard K. Stern, journalist Larry Birkhead, former bodyguard Alexender Denk and Hollywood bad boy Mark Hatten. The paternity test revealed Birhead to be the father of little Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
In September 2006, while visiting his mother and new baby half-sister in hospital, Smith’s son Daniel died suddenly. It was later found that he was suffering from an overdose of various drugs. That same month, Smith and Stern threw a party and got married, although no formal marriage certificate was ever registered. Some were shocked at the hastiness of the celebrations, given that Smith’s son had only recently died.
The final scandal came when Anna Nicole Smith herself was found dead in a hotel room in Florida. A bodyguard found her unconscious and although she was rushed to hospital, she was pronounced dead on arrival on 8 February 2007. Smith had died of a combination of prescribed drugs including sleeping pills.
After her death her estate was valued at over a million, although some of her property was heavily mortgaged. Today, legal disputes over her claim of Marshall’s estate continue, in the name of her daughter.
