Anna Nicole Smith

Vickie Lynn Hogan was born on November 28, 1967, and while working as a waitress met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant. The couple married April 4, 1985; she was 17 and he was 16. The next year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. She and Billy separated in 1987 and... More

Vickie Lynn Hogan was born on November 28, 1967, and while working as a waitress met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant. The couple married April 4, 1985; she was 17 and he was 16. The next year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. She and Billy separated in 1987 and she moved to Houston with one-year-old Daniel.

Smith's career took off after she was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March 1992 issue of Playboy, where she is listed as Vickie Smith. By the time that she was chosen to be Playmate of the Year in 1993, she had settled on her stage name, Anna Nicole Smith. She secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer as the model for Guess jeans, and in 1993 she modeled for H&M.

While performing at Gigi's, a Houston strip club, in October 1991, Smith met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship. During their two-year relationship, he reportedly lavished gifts on her and asked her to marry him several times. She divorced her husband Billy and on June 27, 1994, Smith, 26, and Marshall, 89, married in Houston.

Smith's first starring role in a movie was as Colette Dubois, a retired spy seeking revenge for the murder of her husband, in the action/thriller To the Limit in 1995.
In 2002, she debuted in her own reality TV series, The Anna Nicole Show. Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was born September 7, 2006, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. The Bahamian birth certificate records the father as Howard K. Stern.

On February 8, 2007, Smith was found unresponsive in room 607 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. According to Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger, at 1:38 p.m. Smith's friend and bodyguard, Maurice "Big Moe" Brighthaupt, who was a trained paramedic, called the hotel front desk from her sixth floor room. The front desk in turn called security, who then called 911. At 1:45 p.m. the bodyguard administered CPR before she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced DOA at 2:49 p.m.

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