Dancer

Anna Nicole Smith

American actress and television personality (1967–2007)

Born 1967 · HoustonDied 2007United States
Anna Nicole Smith
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Anna Nicole Smith was an American dancer, born in 1967 in Houston, who died in 2007.

Biography

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 began her modeling career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She later modeled for clothing companies, including Guess, H&M, and Heatherette.

In 1994, Smith married 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall. Following Marshall's death in 1995, she began a lengthy legal battle over his estate that reached the Supreme Court of the United States. In the early 2000s, Smith served as a spokeswoman for the dietary supplement brand TrimSpa and appeared in films. She also starred in her own reality program on E!, The Anna Nicole Show (2002–2004).

Smith died from combined drug intoxication in Hollywood, Florida, in 2007.

From the Wikipedia article “Anna Nicole Smith”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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