Smith was often maligned as a gold digger. Fourteen months after the wedding, Marshall was dead, and the still-unresolved fight over his vast wealth had begun between Smith and his sons. Marshall was too old to stay out late and frequented the club on the early side. According to bankruptcy court records, she was too “big-boned” for night work. Howard Marshall II had frequented the Houston strip club where Smith had worked the early shift since 1991. She modeled Guess jeans for television ads, magazines and billboards before landing the role that would propel her into the ranks of the truly rich and famous. Within a year she was 1993 Playmate of the Year. Smith, a topless dancer in the early 1990s, became a Playboy cover girl after entering her photos in a contest. Saturday, “Biography Remembers: Anna Nicole Smith.” The Biography Channel announced a special at 8 p.m. Within hours of her death, CNN’s Larry King made a telephone appearance on Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room” to offer his memories. Though she experienced early success as a model, Smith’s high-profile life became a self-perpetuating media machine. Schnider to order that a DNA sample be obtained from Smith’s body. Rale, said Thursday evening that he would be in court today responding to an emergency motion from Birkhead and his attorney, asking Superior Court Judge Robert A. The Los Angeles attorney who had been representing Smith in the paternity matter, Ronald A.
Stern, Smith’s most recent romantic partner, has said he is Dannielynn’s father. The test was ordered after Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead filed a lawsuit saying he is the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, who was born in the Bahamas on Sept. Smith’s death casts uncertainty on a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge’s order issued Wednesday that she and her daughter undergo paternity testing by Feb. It had intensified in recent months with the death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel a paternity battle over Dannielynn and a lawsuit alleging deceit in selling the TrimSpa weight-loss formula, for which she was a spokesman. The cause of death for Smith, who had been complaining of flu-like symptoms since checking in Monday, was unknown.īroward County Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Perper planned an autopsy today but cautioned that toxicology work could delay determination of the cause of death for days or weeks.īorn Vickie Lynn Hogan in Texas, Smith had been bathing in a media spotlight for almost 15 years. Her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, was not with her at the hotel, said Seminole Tribe spokesman Gary Bittner.