The Playboy bunny who married an 89-year-old millionaire and couldn’t collect his inheritance

Anna Nicole Smith was a woman with great recognition in the American entertainment industry, she posed for several major brands and became the cover of Playboy magazine.

However, his life was also marked by some tragic situations, such as her marriage to a man who was more than 60 years her senior.

Anna Nicole Smith was born in a small town in Texas and was a very young single mother. But behind that humble beginning, she dreamed big, very big.

I wanted fame success and the recognition. always wanted to be template and was one of sex symbol most important film of the 90s. He aspired to work in television and participated in six films. But behind her triumphs and big curves, she hid a emotional fragilityproduct of a stormy childhoodwhich contributed to his tragic end.

Controversy also surrounded his short life. At the age of 26, she married a oil tycoon 89, who died a year after marrying her. Also, finished no legacy after a long legal battle. Her first child died of an overdose and she fell into an abyss depressiondied at the age of 39 from a cocktail of drugs.

One could say that Anna’s life had an intensity unusual for most people. He went from working in a restaurant fried chicken stripper have it all, absolutely everything. Money, recognition and popular outcry. But also, during his last days of life, he was inside failure and without someone to give him true love.

a difficult childhood

Victoria Lynn Hogan (her real name) was born on November 28, 1967 in Texas, USA. During her adolescence she went to live with her maternal aunt in the town of Mexia. There she dropped out of high school at the age of 14, after a student attacked her, and she decided to go to work because -according to her- her strong point was not studying.

It started at a local fried chicken restaurant (Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken) where she met Bill Smith, whom she married at age 17. Together they had a son, Daniel Wayne Smith, born January 22, 1986. The marriage was short-lived, just a year. After experiencing violence, she left town and they ended up divorcing in 1993.

Her beginnings as a dancer

His new home was now inside houston, the most populous city in Texas. The young single mother got a job at Walmart is in the restaurant Red lobster. Also, he added another work in a dance club from striptease. She says she came out of that place tormented, but basically she had to pay the bills and for one with no title and almost no experience there was no other alternative.

Over time he managed to get into a cabaret landline, Rick’s Cabaret in Houston. She earned good money and decided to invest in his body: he underwent surgery busts and dyed her hair champagne blonde. The dream of being like Marilyn Monroe i was close. The owner of the club didn’t give him the shift where he was paid more, at night, but that misfortune of fate would have been the one that would have changed his life forever.

He had to work during the noon. In one of his presentations he met someone who did not take his eyes off him. A old man, stooped, frail and in a wheelchair. He was alone and decided to go and talk to him. that old of 86 years old it turned out to be a millionaire businessman from the oil field who was recently widowed. Her name was James Howard Marshall.

Marshall, her great love

From that day Anna’s life changed forever. They spent the night together private suite of the old man and a courtship began. In parallel the dancer He tried to fulfill his dream of being template Y actress. Meanwhile, her new boyfriend has kept her promise made the first evening, when he had told her: “Don’t go, love. You’ll never have to work again.”

the young man dancer From humble beginnings, she has gone from the difficult reality of a single mother with no opportunities to a life full of palaces, fancy carsTravelling abroad, jewels and large operations on a non-stop flight. His life had been transformed. In 1992 one of his friends told him Playboy I was looking for bunnies. She was very clear about what she wanted for her and her child’s future.

playmate of the year

She auditioned for the famous magazine and was not only selected but also directed the first page. Moreover, it has become template brands like Guess and H&M. His life has taken a drastic turn. In 1993 she was cast as playmate of the year and decided to change the name to Anna Nicole Smith.

The following year, he participated in two movie, in 1994 (“The Naked 33 ⅓ Gun” with Leslie Nielsen, and “The Big Leap” by the Coen brothers), and then married Marshall on June 27 of that year. The union between these two people they had 63 years apart. Magazines of the time wondered if it was love or was it simply because interest.

Speaking of this situation, Anna Nicole Smith said: “I saw a very sick man, someone who was physically ill. I didn’t feel physical attraction at all (…) but I loved him very much, he didn’t have a hot body, it was just that I loved him much more for what he did for me and for my son, no one had ever loved me like this or done things to me, he hadn’t respected me like that.”

The marriage lasted a year, until the death of oil tycoon that he had an estimated fortune 500 million dollarson August 4, 1995, at the age of 90. During their relationship, the model received large gifts, including three houses and several jewels. There were two funerals; one by the Marshall family and another organized by Anna Nicole, where just over 30 people attended.

Therefore, the widow’s name did not appear in any of the six wills of the old man, the only heir was his son. Anne Nicole, the sex icon of the moment, the most desired woman, the playfellowhe was left alone to face the world again.

Addictions, depression and a legal battle

Anna’s life began to get complicated. immediately a dependence to the analgesics, depression and I was way below fatigue. At the same time, a legal battle to inherit half of her ex-husband’s fortune, which she ended up losing after several years. In 1996, her child’s nanny sued her for sexual harassment and Justice ruled against her, they forced her to pay 800,000 dollars. Everything was going downhill.

But in the early 2000s he started his own TV show, “The Anna Nicole Show“, which did quite well. He had lost weight and recovered after doing a treatment for their addictions. She began a relationship with Larry Birkhead, father of her future her daughterand they moved in together. Finally it seemed that Anna had found some peace after so many torments.

Sad ending

However, the hardest blow of his life was yet to come. A few days after the birth of their daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead (over whom there was later a paternity conflict), deceased his son. Daniel he was 20 years old and died after a overdose in a hospital bed. They found him in the same room where his mother was recovering from childbirth.

Anna could never recover from this tragedy, Daniel was the engine of her life. Five months later they found her diedon February 8, 2007, aged 39, in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel in the Bahamas. The cause of his death was A overdose from barbituratesnine other substances were also found in the model’s body.