Anna Nicole Smith is famous for being Playboy’s Playmate of the Year in 1993 and for marrying an eighty-nine-year-old oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall on June 27, 1994. She was only twenty-six at the time.  Anna Nicole Smith was born in Houston, Texas, on November 28, 1967, as Vicki Lynn Hogan. She was raised by her mother, Virgie Hogan Hart Arthur, and her aunt after her father, Donald Eugene Hogan, deserted his family.  

Daniel died from a lethal drug overdose while visiting his mother at the maternity ward in Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, on September 10, 2006, just days after she had given birth to her second child, a girl named Dannielynn Hope.  

While working in the strip clubs she met J. Howard Marshall who seemed to really take to her. It’s said that she used Marshall ’s money to get a significant breast enlargement surgery with two implants inserted into each breast.   When she was twenty-four she entered and won the Playboy cover contest. Two years later she married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. She never actually lived with him and had several alleged romantic relationships while she was married to him. 

Within weeks after Marshall ’s death Smith started fighting with the man’s son, E. Pierce Marshall, over getting half of her husband’s $1.6 billion estate. After a highly publicized court battle, Smith was awarded $450 million in 2000. The following year a Houston judge ruled that Smith was entitled to nothing and ordered her to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce's legal team. After several more court rulings, Smith was finally given the right to pursue her claims to Marshall ’s estate on May 1, 2006. The ruling doesn’t give Smith a portion of her husband's estate, and the legal battle still continues. 

Anna's nurse found her to be unresponsive at 1.38 pm at which time fire rescue workers attempted CPR before she was taken to the local Hollywood hospital, where she was pronounced dead.    

Howard K Stern was named as the executor of Anna Nicole Smith’s will but was contested by her mother, Virgie Arthur,  who stated that the will was never filed in the courts so therefore is not legal. Up until February 22nd 2007 Anna Nicole’s body remained at the medical examiner's office in the Bahamas while Stern, Birkhead and her mother contested the final resting place of Anna’s body.

The medical examiner has reported that the official cause of her death is still unknown.

Her final burial place was announced on March 1st 2007 and Anna Nicole's body was laid to rest on Friday March 2nd at 10.30 next to her son in the Bahamas.  

YUDDY