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Anna Nicole Smith Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Anna Nicole Smith (November 28, 1967 - February 8, 2007), was the stage name of Vickie Lynn Marshall, an American model, actress and celebrity who first gained popularity as Playboy's 1993 Playmate of the Year. Her highly publicized marriage to oil business executive and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior, resulted in considerable speculation that she married the octogenarian merely for his money, which she denied. Following his death, she began a lengthy and ongoing legal battle over a share of his estate. Her case, Marshall v. Marshall reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction.Anna Nicole Smith was a blonde bombshell whose career as a celebrity began when she was named Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1993. She starred in a series of glossy ads for Guess? clothing, and her busting-out-all-over appeal made her a popular pinup in the early days of the Internet. Then Smith became the stuff of talk show one-liners after she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall in 1994. He died the next year, leaving Smith to battle his family for control of his fortune. The legal wrangling seemed finished in 2002, when federal judge David Carter awarded Smith $88.5 million as her share of Marshall's estate, but later legal challenges kept the case alive. Smith's well-known battles with her weight also led to her role as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet products. Smith also starred in the The Anna Nicole Show, a reality TV series about her life which aired from 2002-03. The show cemented her reputation as a celebrity more famous for being a celebrity than for anything else. Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope, in September of 2006; the event was marred when Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died suddenly while visiting her in the hospital three days later. Legal battles involving the paternity of her daughter followed her into 2007, and she was also named in a cla