Hvem daterte Anna Nicole Smith?

Anna Nicole Smith (født Vickie Lynn Hogan  28. november 1967 i Houston i Texas, død 8. februar 2007) var en amerikansk modell og skuespillerinne som fikk sitt gjennombrudd som Playboys Playmate of the Year i 1993. I Norge ble hun kjent som undertøysmodell for Hennes & Mauritz samme år.

Hennes ekteskap med oljemagnaten og milliardær J. Howard Marshall, som var 63 år eldre enn henne, skapte spekulasjoner rundt hennes hensikt med ekteskapet. Etter hans død ble det innledet en lang rettslig prosess, som varte fram til hennes død. Hun fikk 532 millioner norske kroner i arv.

Hun etterlot seg ektemann og datter Dannielynn Birkhead, født 2006.

10. september 2006 mistet Anna Nicole Smith sønnen Daniel Wayne Smith som ble 20 år gammel.

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.