Hvem daterede Anna Nicole Smith?

Anna Nicole Smith (født 28. november 1967, død 8. februar 2007) var en amerikansk model, tv-personlighed og milliardærarving. Der er skrevet en opera over hendes liv.

Anna Nicole Smith blev først kendt som Playmate of the Year i Playboy 1993. Før jul samme år poserede hun som undertøjsmodel for kæden Hennes & Mauritz. Reklameplakaterne var særdeles populære nok især blandt mænd, og blev stjålet i stor stil. I løbet af sin tid som model, hvorunder hun også optrådte i stripklubber, mødte hun oliemiliardæren J. Howard Marshall, som hun indledte et forhold til. 27. juni 1994 blev parret gift; hun var 27 år og han 89. Lidt over et år senere døde Marshall, og Smith kom i juridisk slagsmål med Marshalls øvrige familie om arven. Ved hendes død var sagen uafklaret.

Ved siden af modelkarrieren forsøgte Smith sig uden større held som skuespiller. I stedet fik hun sit eget tv-show i form af en slags realityshow med hende selv i hovedrollen.

Gennem det meste at sit voksne liv lykkedes det hende med jævne mellemrum at holde sig i sladderpressens og paparazzifotografernes søgelys. I den sidste tid havde hun et forhold til sin advokat, Howard K. Stern. Den 7. september 2006 fødte hun en datter. Det blev først efter hendes død ved en retssag afgjort, at Larry Birkhead var faderen til datteren. Hun fik i 1986 en søn, der døde 20 år gammel, få dage efter hun havde født sin datter i 2006.

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.