Anna Nicole Smith

American actress, Anna Nicole Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, on November 28, 1967, shot to popularity with her appearance as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1993. Currently titled Vickie Lynn Marshall due to her highly publicized marriage to oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, she was engaged in a legal battle over the custody of her late husband's estate. Incidentally, her husband was 63 years her senior. The case was won by her with a 9-0 lead on May 1, 2006, entitling her to a larger share of the estate. Born in Houston, Texas, she moved to Mexia, a small town south of Dallas. In her teens, she worked in a fried chicken restaurant and married an unidentified cook. At the age of 17 she married Billy Smith and gave birth to a son named Daniel. She opted for a divorce in1987. To support her son as a single mother, she worked as an exotic dancer in a night club in Houston using alias names such as Nikki, Robin and Anna Nicole. A frequent customer of the strip club, oil billionaire J Howard Marshall was won over by here looks and proposed marriage to Anna. She underwent cosmetic surgery for breast augmentation, funded by Marshall. She replaced supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the Guess Jeans' advertisement campaign, after appearing on the cover of the Playboy March 1992 issue, wearing a low-cut evening gown. Ana has acted in a number of movies, such as 'Naked gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult', 'To the limit', 'Skyscraper', and 'Illegal aliens'. Ever the adventurous kind, even while tied in matrimony, she allegedly had multiple romantic interests with bodybuilder Clay Spires, actor Scott Baio, real estate mogul Jonathan McManus, Maria Antonia Cerrato, and Sandi Powledge.