Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model and television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans. She starred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show.
Anna Nicole Smith’s tragic life story is being turned into an opera.
The former Playboy model - who was found dead aged just 39 from an accidental drug overdose in February 2007 - is the subject of a new production being developed by the co-creator of ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’, due to be staged at London’s Royal Opera House.
Richard Thomas, who is writing the words to a score by Mark-Anthony Turnage, told Britain’s The Independent newspaper: “It’s an incredible story. It’s very operatic and sad.
“She was quite a smart lady with the tragic flaw that she could not seem to get through life without a vat of prescription painkillers.” Smith - who was crowned Playmate of the Year in 1993 - achieved worldwide fame when she married octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall in 1994, who was 63 years her senior.
Anna Nicole’s mom says lawyer spread rumors
HOUSTON — Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, already suing her daughter’s former lawyer over claims she was an abusive parent, is now accusing him of helping spread false rumors that she was involved in incestuous and immoral relationships.
Attorneys for Howard K. Stern denied the claims in court Friday.
In November, Virgie Arthur filed a lawsuit against Stern, claiming that after she expressed concern about the safety of Smith and her daughter, Dannielynn, he arranged an “Entertainment Tonight” interview in which Smith said her mother was complicit in sexual and physical abuse Smith suffered as a child.
Arthur also sued Houston television station and NBC affiliate KPRC, which aired the program on Feb. 14, 2007, and CBS Studios, which produces the program.
Arthur, who lives in Montgomery County just north of Houston, says Stern, KPRC and CBS subjected her to public hatred and contempt by injuring her reputation.
Smith, a former Playboy playmate, died on Feb. 8, 2007, in Florida from an overdose of prescription drugs, a week before the program aired.
During a court hearing Friday, Arthur’s attorneys said that since filing the lawsuit, they have learned about additional efforts to defame their client that are connected to the “Entertainment Tonight” interview and asked U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal to let them add more defendants to the case.
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