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19 Interesting Facts About Anna Nicole Smith
Interesting Facts (10)
- #001
Posters of Anna Nicole Smith from a 1994 ad campaign for Swedish fashion company H&M caused numerous car accidents in major European cities.
Anna Nicole Smith: in the bedroomImage: Wikimedia Commons · doggiesrule04, CC BY-SA 2.0 - #002
In October 1991, dancing topless in Houston, Texas, Anna Nicole Smith met the elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who reportedly showered her with gifts and proposed several times during their two-year relationship.
- #003
Anna Nicole Smith's line "Like my body?" from her Trim-Spa commercials became her catchphrase.
- #004
Before her first Playboy cover, Anna Nicole Smith was making $60 a week at Wal-Mart.
Anna Nicole Smith: a sceneImage: Wikimedia Commons · Toby Forage, CC BY-SA 2.0 - #005
Anna Nicole Smith was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in May 1992 and Playmate of the Year in 1993, the tallest (jointly), heaviest and most voluptuous Playmate of the Year, though India Allen (1988) and Julie Cialini (1995) were also 5' 11".
- #006
"Anna Nicole," an opera by British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, had its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 17 September 2013, opening the New York City Opera's season.
- #007
On 28 April 1998, Anna Nicole Smith was crowned Miss Cuervo Golden Republic for a year, beating seven other contestants because "her party spirit won out."
- #008
Anna Nicole Smith supported gay and lesbian people and marched in the 35th annual Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride parade in 2005.
- #009
Hanna Nicola Smythe, a character on NBC's soap opera Passions (1999), was based on Anna Nicole Smith.
- #010
E!'s The Anna Nicole Show (2002), which followed her daily life, premiered on 4 August 2002 and aired its last episode on 1 June 2003.
Characters & Cast (1)
- #011
Her May 1992 Playmate data sheet gave her measurements as 36DD-26-38 and her weight as 140 lbs, and as Playmate of the Year she was listed at 155 lbs. Her weight peaked at 224 lbs in 1996, dropped to a reported 138 lbs by 1997, climbed back near its peak by 2002, and by 2005 was back to her natural 1990s modeling weight, when she was the spokesperson for a weight-loss program.
Life & Family (8)
- #012
Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died suddenly on 10 September 2006 while visiting his mother and newborn sister in her hospital room in the Bahamas; he had flown in on Saturday and collapsed there on Sunday.
- #013
On Larry King Live (1985), Howard K. Stern claimed he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter and that he and Anna had been together for some time. Photographer Larry Birkhead sued for a DNA test to prove he was the father, and Stern and Anna fought him, even moving to the Bahamas for the birth. On 1 May 2007, after a DNA test confirmed his paternity, Birkhead was allowed to leave the Bahamas with the baby.
- #014
From November 1999, Anna Nicole Smith fought her former stepson E. Pierce Marshall in court, claiming half of the assets acquired during her marriage from her late husband's $1.6 billion estate plus the monthly allowance he had left her in his will, while Pierce tried to stop her getting anything. In September 2000 a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded her $449,754,134 from the estate, but in July 2001 Houston judge Mike Wood overturned it and ordered her to pay more than $1 million in fees and expenses to E. Pierce Marshall's team. In March 2002 she was finally awarded $88 million in damages from the estate, but her claims for interest on that sum were rejected. With both Smith and Marshall dead, the legal battle effectively ended.
- #015
In her Playmate of the Year interview, Anna Nicole Smith said she worked at a fried chicken restaurant in Mexia, Texas, and married one of the cooks, Billy Smith.
- #016
Her parents were Donald Eugene Hogan and Virgie Hart; when they divorced in 1969, her mother and aunt Elaine brought her up.
- #017
Anna Nicole Smith had five half-siblings, among them her half-sister Donna Hogan.
- #018
She was 26 and he was 89 when she married her second husband, billionaire businessman J. Howard Marshall II.
- #019
Anna's mother was only sixteen when she gave birth to her.
Sources & editorial notes
Reference databases
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