Chi uscì con Anna Nicole Smith?

Anna Nicole Smith, pseudonimo di Vickie Lynn Hogan (Houston, 28 novembre 1967 – Hollywood, 8 febbraio 2007), è stata una modella e attrice statunitense.

Divenne celebre nel 1993 quando fu nominata Playmate dell'anno. L'anno successivo sposò il ricco imprenditore James Howard Marshall II, all'epoca ottantanovenne. Marshall morì l'anno seguente ma lasciò fuori dal testamento la moglie che negli anni seguenti impugnò il testamento sulla base di una presunta promessa del marito arrivando sino alla Corte suprema degli Stati Uniti.

L'8 febbraio 2007 ebbe un collasso mentre si trovava nell'Hard Rock Motel and Casino a Seminole, Florida, e morì poco dopo l'arrivo in ospedale a Hollywood. Negli ultimi mesi della sua vita, la Smith fu al centro dell'attenzione a causa della morte del suo primogenito Daniel e la battaglia per stabilire la paternità e la custodia della seconda figlia Dannielyn.

The Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead paternity case, a.k.a. Birkhead v. Marshall, was a high-profile legal battle that revolved around the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn. Larry Birkhead, Smith's former love interest, filed a lawsuit against Howard K. Stern, Smith's live-in partner who was listed as the father on the birth certificate, seeking to establish his paternity rights. Dannielynn stood to inherit a substantial fortune if Smith's estate succeeded in its ongoing legal battle to claim inheritance from her late husband, an affluent oil tycoon. Given its significant implications and media coverage, the case involved various legal proceedings and garnered substantial public attention. G. Ben Thompson, a former boyfriend of Smith's who worked as a real-estate developer in South Carolina, claimed that pregnant Smith approached him to inform him that he was the father of her unborn child, but he balked telling Smith that was impossible because he had a vasectomy.

The case unfolded in multiple jurisdictions, primarily in the United States and the Bahamas. Smith and Stern were reportedly staying in the Bahamas to avoid paternity testing of her daughter in the U.S. The court hearings included DNA testing, testimonies from various individuals claiming to be the father, and arguments over custody and inheritance rights. The case was ultimately resolved when a DNA test confirmed Birkhead as the biological father of the child.

In addition to Birkhead and Stern, several individuals including bodyguard/actor Alexander Denk, Mark Hatten, and Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, among others, claimed to be the father of Smith's daughter.