Anna Nicole Smith

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Anna Nicole Smith, real name Vickie Lynn Marshall, was born on November 28, 1967 and died February 8, 2007. She was a model, an actress but mostly she was an American sex symbol. She raised by her mother Virgie Mae Tabers and her sister. After her mother married Donald R. Hart in 1971 Vicke changed her name to Nikki Hart. Thereafter her mother has married three times. She was a schoolgirl of Durkee Elementary School and Aldine Intermediate School in Houston. Later her mother sent her to Mexia, Texas, to Tabers' younger sister Kay Beall, where Nikki attended Mexia High School. During her sophomore year she decided to quit the education at school. When she was 17, in 1985 she married Billy Wayne Smith, who was 16. One year later was born their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. The couple divorced officially in 1993 ,but they have been separated since 1987. Soon after she became an exotic dancer. In 1992 for the first time she appeared on the cover of the March 1992 issue of Playboy. Then she decided to change her name to Anna Nicole. Soon after she became one of the most popular Playboy's model. In the same year she met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall. Although he proposed to her many times, she married him in 1994, after she divorced with husband Billy. She has been a wife of Marshall for 13 months. Marshall died on August 4, 1995. A few weeks later began a legal battle between Smith and Marshall's son E. Pierce Marshall for half of her late husband's US$1.6 billion estate. After more than 12 years the case still hasn't been resolved and now, when Anna Nicole is dead, the case will probably continue in the name of Ms. Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. On June1, 2006 after a lot of speculations, Anna admitted that she was pregnant. She gave birth to a girl on September 7, 2006, but three days later her happiness disappeared, her son Daniel died in her hospital room when he visited his mother and newborn sister. His death was caused by combination of Zoloft, Lexapro and methadone. Except his sudden death, there were one more reason to rumors, who is Danielynn's father? It was said that the father of Danielynn is her attorney, Howard K. Stern, as they allegedly had a secret romance which ended up exchanging vows and rings in an informal commitment ceremony. In spite of in the act of Danielynn's birth appeared Stern's name as her legal father, Larry Birkhead, previous Smith's boyfriend, also was an candidate for Danielynn's father. But it wasn't enough, after Smith's death appeared a lot of putative fathers. Everybody wanted to take care of little Danielynn, but mostly they wanted to take care of the money that he probably will inherit. The quarrel lasted till April 10, 2007, when DNA test revealed that Larry Birkhead is a biological father of Danielynn. On February 8, 2007her bodyguard and friend, Maurice "Big Moe" Brighthaupt found her death in her hotel room. The main reason of her death was accidental drug overdose.