The most famous faces in the world. Shooting for guess makes Anna Nicole Smith a star. Vavavoom. Wow. She was ridiculed, but theres a whole story the public doesnt know. People have a perception that she was this dumb blond. She wasnt. Im fine. Im well. Im here. Every single thing i touch has a story to it. She snagged a very rich man who was near death. One of the worlds richest men. Anna never gave [ bleep ] about money. She loved mr. Marshall tremendously. He left her nothing. Zero. Anna, anna, anna, anna nicole she is one hot mess, except maybe shes not that hot anymore. Make me beautiful dress. Anna nicole smith just gave birth to a baby girl only to have her 20yearold son, daniel, die at her maternity bedside. And then the unimaginable happens. Anna herself dies just five months later. The question of why no one called 911 sooner is never fully answered. Do you know what this even is . I thought it would be important to show dannielynn a little bit about where her mom came from. There you are with your mommy. She wanted a little girl to treat like a little princess, to dress up. I think she wanted somebody that she could raise as her own and and maybe get back what she didnt have. She had this trunk at the edge of her bed, and she would pull it out, and everything was for a baby girl. She wanted a baby girl. Its something she longed for, something she wanted. And dannielynn came and that was her dream. I was so happy for her. I was just so happy for her. But only five months later, anna nicole was dead. She left behind a man who loved her and a daughter she never got to see grow up. I have a daughter who doesnt have a mom. And i have to paint a picture for dannielynn of who her mom was. I do it for dannielynn. We are headed to a little town called mexia, texas. Dannielynns a teenager now and she doesnt really know a ton of things about her mom. I thought, why not go back to annas beginnings and kind of see where anna got her start . Its keeping her memory alive for my daughter. Mexia. Population, 7,459 people. Anna told me that she always wanted to get out of there, but i am excited to meet annas friend jo. I never met her before. She kind of held the key to a lot of stories that i thought was important for our journey. My name is jo mclemore. Anna nicole and i were best friends. Im really looking forward to meeting dannielynn for the first time. Oh, my goodness. Can i hug, yall . Yes. So good to meet you. Nice to meet you too after all this time. You are your mommy. You look just like her. When i first met her, that is exactly what i remember, just like that. Youre so beautiful. Thanks. Anna nicole smiths birth name was vickie lynn hogan. She lived in houston with her family, but she did have problems in houston. Reporter her mom, virgie, is 16 when she gets married and gives birth to vickie. The father, donald hogan, is soon out of the picture. Vickie lynns mother, virgie, was a Deputy Sheriff in houston. She carried herself like a Deputy Sheriff. She was very stern and forthright and very strict. Vickies childhood life was tough. She was in an abusive situation. She was sexually abused and physically abused. Thats what she told me and thats what she would cry about. I wasnt there, but i believe her. She is sent to mexia, this tiny, dusty town to live with her aunt kaye and her cousins. Mexia had nothing. Mexia was like being sent to the end of the world. We had nothing in mexia. We didnt have a bowling alley. We didnt have anything. What we did is it was called the drag and youd go up and down the street and you drink beer and you talk to people and hang out the window. Hello things like that, and that was it. This is the house where anna nicole lived with her aunt and her cousins. As you can tell now, its vacant. Two bedroom, but we made the porch into a three bedroom, a three little bedroom. She moved in hoping for a better environment for herself, and at that point we invited her to come live with us. So this is the high school where your mommy went, mexia high school. This would be her tenth grade year. Yes. That was her last year in school, too, i think. It was. When she went to school here in mexia, she was miserable. She was having a hard time with being bullied. At that point, i think, after all shed been through, all the struggles in her life, she was finally fed up and she just said, you know what, im done. And she said, im quitting. I dont wanna be here anymore. And we actually went and picked her up the day she walked out of the school, and she never went back. So this is where your mama and i used to hang out. Wed come over here after work or between, you know, the shifts and just cruise through here. Was there anything else to do . Yeah, there was nothing else to do here, dannielynn. Theres no movie theaters. There wasnt starbucks or anything. Basically the main place to eat was krispys. Give me directions to jims krispy Fried Chicken. Getting directions to jims krispy Fried Chicken. This is krispys. You can already smell the chicken. You can smell it. Theyre not even open and you can smell it. Its great. So i was working here and she would come in every day and order a large drink, but she always looked really sad to me. Sad . Yeah, she always looked very, very sad. But when she started working her we immediately hit it off. One of the memories i have of her is wed sit here together and stare out the window and just watch traffic go by. She was so perfect to me, you know, perfect face and i would tell her, you are so, so pretty. She gets pretty sweet on the guy who runs the fryolator whose name is billy smith. And so, before you know it, she and billy smith are an item. And not much longer billy smith marries vickie and makes her vickie smith. Billy was also a high school dropout, and they were so young. He was 16. She was 17. And then she had her son when she was 18. I thought to myself, im so lonely. I thought, well, if i have a baby, ill never be lonely again. And i had my son, and im not lonely and i love him, and hes great and wonderful. Her and billy started having problems. They couldnt make things work out. So she decided, im leaving, and she left billy. Vickie leaves her husband and decides to move back to houston with her mom virgie. She has barely a tenth grade education. She has Work Experience at a Fried Chicken restaurant, and shes now a single mom with no other apparent skills. She works a little at walmart and she works a little at red lobster, but they dont earn a ton of money. So what she does is walk into a Gentlemens Club and ask if she can get a job. Reporter there were a number of strip clubs near the walmart where she worked, and one of them had a big blue and white sign that had a woman in a bikini. I would drive by the work everyday and there was this big neon sign. It was blue and white and it had this lady in high heel shoes. She had the bikini on and it would flash, tip toe, then back, tip toe, then back, like that. And i was like, oh, how neat. I didnt know it was topless though. I didnt know anything about that. You must have been pretty naive. I was, trust me. Vickie may have been naive, but she was about to learn a lot very quickly. And now please welcome ana montoya. [applause] [suspense] hello there, fellow students. When targets good and gather groceries, bring joy to the table for less. When sharing, the love starts with quality ingredients. And when great taste meets low prices. Thats totally target. vo at dog chow we believe helping dogs live their best life. Should be simple. Thats why dog chow is made with highquality protein and no fillers. Purina dog chow. Keep life simple believe it or not baby. At university of phoenix. You. You. You. You could earn your. Masters. For under than 11 thousand 11. 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It was a tawdry place in a lot of ways. The huge sprawling Gentlemens Clubs were founded here. Breast enhancements were developed here. People were always making themselves up here. Reporter in 1986 anna nicoles name was vickie lynn smith. She had just moved back to houston with her son, whose father was out of the picture. She needed a way to support herself. Shes very uneducated and she had to get a quick job or a quick fix in order to take care of her son. So she did start dancing initially because thats the only way she had a way to make income. My former wife, melissa, used to work at the executive suite in north houston. It was a higher class gentlemens Entertainment Club and she was there the day that vickie smith walked in the door to apply for a job as a waitress and later become a dancer. The first thing melissa, my wife, noticed was that anna was just terrified, literally terrified. I mean, she was definitely green to that kind of lifestyle. She was always tall, a large girl, and she was very selfconscious about that and very, very shy, introverted. It was tough taking my clothes off and it was tough doing the table dances. The day i went on to dance the first time, i i ran out because i was so horrified and so ashamed of myself. But, when i was driving to work, i looked down and so all this money, and i was like, wow. And it was like 50. Im like, whoa. 50. Back they be that was a lot of money for me. Reporter she was living with her friend, melissa, and her son, daniel, was living with her mother, virgie. Anna wanted him to move in with her. Her biggest fear was that daniel would forget about her and not ever want to be with her again. Daniel was her life. She said, im going to be the sexiest [ bleep ] in here because i need money and i need to take care of my son, and she pulled that off very quickly. Ive represented some strippers as a criminal defense attorney. Theyre assessing the room. Theyre looking for the guy who has an ability to spend. Then they have to figure out, well, which role does he want me to play . Anna developed a babys voice. When she talked to guys, she would get in that mode and they would just break down. They would eat that up. The irony is that when she started out anna nicole was, in her own words, flatchested. She didnt have b, c, she didnt have that. She had little tiny breasts. And so she begins saving money and begins to engage in a series of breast augmentation procedures. Thats when she really started making the big bucks. Men loved the fact that here was this big old texas girl with that big old blond texas hair. Believe it or not, as good as she was at dancing, it was still in her mind that this was just not who i am. She never felt comfortable with it. She would just continuously say, you know, i i dont know if im doing the right thing. Im disrespecting myself, my mother, my child. So its 1991 and vickies been dancing for four years when an unlikely figure is wheeled in the front door. He is j. Howard marshall ii. J. Howard marshall is about to change vickies life because he is not your average 87yearold billionaire. J. Howard marshall comes from a prominent east coast family. Hes yale educated, works in the Roosevelt Administration on oil projects, and eventually becomes associated with the famous koch brothers, which turns him into a billionaire. So marshalls second wife is stricken with alzheimers and hes a very lonely man. So he then begins a tenyear relationship with a very exotic, flamboyant stripper named lady walker. He lavished her with flowers, love notes, diamonds. He was still married and both he and lady walker agreed that it would be very wrong for them to have sex. Reporter he spent millions and millions of dollars on her over the years. But whatever their relationship was about, it didnt seem to be about sex. He felt like he was her protector. He would write her these florid, romantic notes, which she would respond to in kind. Along with giving her these florid, romantic notes, hed give her checks, lots of them. So the relationship is very devoted, but lady walker suddenly dies. And here was marshall, hed lost his wife, who he really did love, to alzheimers. He lost his paramour, who i think he really did love, who died on the operating table getting a facelift. So its october 1991 and marshall is despondent. So, when he wheels into gigis one lunchtime and sees this 24yearold blonde dancer in front of him, his heart is taken. He had no will to live, and i went over to see him. He got a little twinkle in his eyes and he asked me to dance for him, and i did. He was very funny, really funny. Very brilliant, very smart. Gosh, he had so many stories. I mean, just an amazing man. He was just really amazing. From the very first time she met howard, she thought of him as a grandfather figure. Once we met howard, i mean, you thought the same way. Very likable man, very knowledgeable, very smart. They would phone call every day and talk to each other. They were so cute on the phone. She would call him her sugar booger and sweetheart and all that. They needed each other in more of a sense than people understood. So they just took care of each other. Marshall had two sons and the son he was closest to was pierce marshall, who was this very upright, waspy, proper person. I think anna nicole would have just sent him screaming from the room. Pierce wants to put an end to it right away, but j. Howard marshall ii tells his son pierce, she makes me enjoy life again. Butt out. So within a week of meeting vickie, marshall proposes marriage. She says no because shes determined to make something of herself on her own. So what j. Howard marshall doesnt know is that vickie is in love with someone else. In this case its a woman. Mr. S through tough messes. 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You know, they were going to carry on a continual relationship. She even mentioned that, you know, that would that was going to be her life. They lived together for a while and it seemed like they had a very loving relationship. And she had a boyfriend, a girlfriend. It was not abnormal for anna to have several boyfriends or girlfriends at the same time. She didnt hide it and it didnt bother her. She seems to be a woman of considerable appetites. She likes a lot of input. She eats and drinks freely. She seems to take on a fair amount of lovers. Thanks to her time with j. Howard marshall ii she develops a new appetite for extremely expensive jewelry. He gives vickie jewelry, a house, a red mercedes convertible and breast augmentation surgery. And he buys her a ranch and arabian horses to go with the ranch. Vickie loves animals and she especially loves her horses. This is rose. This is my horse. So he takes vickie to his favorite restaurant, red lobster, and there he proposes again. Reporter i mean, hes a billionaire and his favorite restaurant is red lobster. And he actually asked her to marry him at the table. And anna said, no, im not gonna get married until im able to support myself and make it on my own. Im going to make it on my own. So at the time, even while shes engaged in this kind of elaborate courtship with j. Howard marshall ii, she has a boyfriend. He takes a few pictures of her and sends them to a photographer manager scout for playboy in the texas area. She came in. I was quite taken. She looked like an amazon woman to me. Very, very tall. 511. Wore fiveinch heels. Spandex dress. God awful blue eye shadow. But underneath all of that, you saw the pretty face. She walked a little clumsy. She walked like a duck. But Anna Nicole Smith was the sweetest girl you would ever want to meet. I mean, you would want her as a sister. Sent the film off. The very next day playboy called and they said, this girls going to be a playmate. So around 1992 my uncle called me, who lived here, and said, vickie made playboy. And i was like, what . He said, she made playboy. And i said, she did not. And i was kind of weirded out. I was proud of her, but i was like, shes up here now and im down here. Shes never gonna im a little person now, i think, is what i was feeling. She appears on the cover of playboy in march of 1992. It is a life changing event because paul marciano, who runs guess jeans, sees her photos. Reporter marciano calls playboy, and a meeting is set up. He came to see me, and i didnt think he liked me at first. So they made up my hair, put a dress on me and stuff. And i remember walking in the trailer, and ill never forget, he walked up in the trailer and his mouth just dropped. He was