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Vickie Lynn Marshall (née Hogan, November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), known professionally as Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She later modeled for fashion companies, including Guess, H&M, Lane Bryant, Con-Air, and Heatherette. Smith dropped out of high school in 1984, married in 1985, and divorced in 1993. In 1994, her highly publicized second marriage to 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall resulted in speculation that she married him for his money, which she denied. Following Marshall's death in 1995, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate. Her cases reached the Supreme Court of the United States: Marshall v. Marshall on a question of federal jurisdiction and Stern v. Marshall on a question of bankruptcy court authority. Smith died in February 2007 in Hollywood, Florida, of a combined drug intoxication. Early life Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967, in Houston, Texas, the only daughter of Virgie Arthur (née Tabers), (1951–2018) and Donald Hogan (1947–2009). Smith attended Mexia High School, but teachers at the school said transcripts showed that she had transferred there from a Houston school, attended at least one semester of ninth grade in Mexia, but did not complete a whole term of tenth grade. She had five half-siblings on her father's side. Smith was primarily raised by her mother and her family in Mexia. Career Smith secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer in a Guess jeans ad campaign featuring a series of sultry black-and-white photographs. During the Guess campaign, she took on the stage name "Anna Nicole". Guess photographers noticed Smith bore a striking resemblance to bombshell Jayne Mansfield and showcased her in several Mansfield-inspired photo sessions. In 1993, she modeled for the Swedish clothing company H&M, which led to her picture being displayed on large billboards in Sweden and Norway. Smith was featured on the cover of Marie Claire, shot by Peter Lindbergh in October 1993, and in GQ magazine earlier that year. A photograph of Smith was used by New York magazine on the cover of its August 22, 1994, issue titled White Trash Nation. In the photo, she appears sitting in a short skirt with cowboy boots as she eats chips. In October 1994, Smith initiated a $5 million lawsuit against the magazine, claiming that she did not authorize the use of her photo, and that the article damaged her reputation. The lawsuit was reported to have been settled. Endorsements In October 2003, she became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, which allegedly helped her lose a reported 69 pounds (31 kg). TrimSpa diet product company and Smith were sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging their marketing of a weight loss pill was false or misleading. In November 2004, Smith appeared at the American Music Awards to introduce Kanye West and attracted attention because of her slurred speech and behavior. During her live appearance, she threw her arms up and asked, "Like my body?" Smith murmured other comments and alluded to TrimSpa. The incident became comic material for presenters throughout the rest of the program. In March 2005, at the first MTV Australia Video Music Awards in Sydney's Luna Park, Smith spoofed Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction by pulling down her dress to reveal both breasts, each covered with the MTV logo. Personal life While working at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Smith met Billy Wayne Smith, a cook at the restaurant, and the couple married on April 4, 1985, when he was sixteen and she was seventeen. She gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith, on January 22, 1986. Smith and her husband then separated the following year. They divorced in 1993. While performing at a Houston strip club in October 1991, Smith met 86-year-old petroleum tycoon J. Howard Marshall. On June 27, 1994, Smith and Marshall were married in Houston, resulting in speculation that she married him for his money. Marshall died on August 4, 1995, in Houston, at the age of 90. Inheritance court cases Even though Smith was not in Marshall's will, she claimed that in return for marriage, Marshall verbally promised her half of his estate, which primarily consisted of a 16% interest in Koch Industries, then worth $1.6 billion. Smith's stepson E. Pierce Marshall disputed the claim. Smith temporarily joined forces with J. Howard's other son, J. Howard Marshall III, who was disowned after attempting to take control of Koch Industries. Howard III also claimed that his father had verbally promised him a portion of the estate; like Smith, Howard III was also left out of his father's will. In 1996, Smith filed for bankruptcy in California as a result of an $850,000 default judgment against her for the sexual harassment of a nanny who cared for her son. Since any money potentially due to her from the Marshall estate was part of her potential assets, the bankruptcy court involved itself in the matter. In September 2000, a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded Smith $449,754,134.00, the amount that Marshall's interest in Koch Industries appreciated during their marriage. However, in July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood affirmed the jury's findings in the probate case by ruling that Smith was entitled to nothing. The judge ordered Smith to pay over a million to cover the legal costs and expenses of E. Pierce Marshall. The conflict between the Texas probate court and California bankruptcy court judgments forced the matter into federal court. In March 2002, a federal judge vacated the California bankruptcy court's ruling and issued a new ruling that reduced the award to $88 million. On December 30, 2004, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed that decision on the grounds that the federal courts lacked jurisdiction to overrule the probate court's decision. In September 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear the appeal of that decision. The George W. Bush administration directed Paul Clement, the United States Solicitor General, to intercede on Smith's behalf in the interest of expanding federal court jurisdiction over state probate disputes. On May 1, 2006, the Supreme Court unanimously decided in favor of Smith. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of her husband's estate, but affirmed her right to pursue a share of it in federal court. On June 20, 2006, E. Pierce Marshall died at age 67 from an infection. His widow, Elaine Tettemer Marshall, pursued the case on behalf of his estate. After Smith's death in 2007, the case continued on behalf of Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead. In March 2010, an appeals court upheld the verdict barring Smith from the estate. Following the decision, lawyers for Smith's estate appealed the decision to the ent.... Discover the Nicole Smith popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nicole Smith books.
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Train Wreck
Donna HoganShe was the most outlandish, outrageous, inyourface symbol of the age and suddenly, shockingly, she was gone. In real life her antics, adventures and behavior kept a nation rivete...
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Chimera
Nicole SmithChimera a screenplay about an operative doing one more mission where he comes into contact with his daughter; who works on the otherside.
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Anna Nicole Smith - Portrait of An Icon
Pol' Atteu & Patrik SimpsonThis book combines beautiful neverbeforeseen candid photos of intimate and memorable moments, stories, private and personal words of Anna Nicole Smith combined with new details abo...
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The Concubine of Shanghai
Hong YingChina, 1907. Sixteenyearold orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her fro...
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Scandal
George RushWhen the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee’s impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive fallingout with her Sex and the City castmates, or when R...
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Confessions of the Editor Brigand
Cori Nicole Smith WamsleyZhannaa grammarian, compulsive spellchecker, and young copy editorsimmers when her expert redlines are questioned. As her agitation grows, she makes editorial corrections outside t...
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Night and Day
Virginia Woolf'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris ReviewVirginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social co...
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Blonde Ambition
Rita CosbyYOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW. ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON. SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT. YOU DON'T KNOW A THING... She was famous ...
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The New Rulebook
Chris CheersThe bestselling, practical and inclusive guide to life from Instagram's favourite psychologist Chris Cheers.Shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards Best Designed Non...
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Mental State
Dr Mark CrossA manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mental health system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day.Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has...
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A Funny Thing About Love
The Estate of Rebecca FarnworthThe funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bites you on the behind.Which is exactly what's happened to Carmen Miller.Her ex hus...
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Engagement Of Risk
Nicole SmithA Screenplay / Director's script about two young women in love.
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Best American Poetry 2018
David LehmanThe 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet ...
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American Gold Digger
Brian DonovanThe stereotype of the "gold digger" has had a fascinating trajectory in twentiethcentury America, from tales of greedy flapperera chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Sm...
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The Killing Of Anna Nicole Smith
Larry SeidlinAnna Nicole Smith first became famous as the 1993 Playboy Playmate of the Year. She later married octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior. When he died wit...
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The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals
Michelle MorganMurders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, coverups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1960s and right up to the pre...
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A Billion Years
Mike RinderOne of the highestranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir that is “not only a cautionary tale bu...
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Anna Nicole Smith and the Angel
B. M. HembySecond EditionA story of grief and loss. Devastated and stricken with deep pain when her son Daniel died at the age of 20. It's a story of finding a messenger in the form of a...
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The Story of Carter
Nicole SmithThe Story detailing Carter's life up to her involvement in the organisation from her conception to the most traumatic events of Carter's life.
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Train Wreck
Donna Hogan & Henrietta TiefenthalerShe was the most outlandish, outrageous, inyourface symbol of the age and suddenly, shockingly, she was gone. In life her antics, adventures, and behavior kept a nation...
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Brand Your Instagram
Nicole SmithMONETIZE YOUR INSTAGRAM. Build an Instagram presence that will generate a monthly revenue stream and establish your brand internationally. The most common mistake marketers make wi...
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Find Your Own Path
Fiona BucklandEmbark on a journey to living your most fulfilling, authentic life with the help of life coach Fiona BucklandYou are not in the waiting room of life. This is it. You sense you have...
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Wentworth - The Final Sentence On File
Erin McWhirterThe official inside story from the cast and exclusive untold secrets from one of the most beloved Australian series in television historyEpic shiv fights. Shocking deaths. Lethal h...
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Predator King
Melissa Cronin, Dan Dorsky & Mike CampiJeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Peter Nygard. With this book, the infamous hall of fame for billionaire sex predators has inducted another member. Peter Nygar...
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The Woman Who Came In From The Cold
Nicole SmithThe Woman Who Came In From The Cold a short story about a woman who is contemplating leaving the organisation she works for only to find something of intrigue about her father and ...
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Life Hacks from the Buddha
Dr Tony FernandoHow to be calm and content in a chaotic world 50 ancient pearls of wisdom anyone can use for a stressfree and happy lifeIn this practical and easytofollow book, clinical psychiatri...