Anna Nicole Smith Timeline

 

1967: Anna Nicole Smith enters the world as Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas.

1985: While working at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken Smith, 17, meets fry cook Billy Wayne Smith, 16, and the two are married. One year later she gives birth to her son Daniel Wayne Smith.

1987: Smith separates from Billy Wayne and takes her son Daniel to Houston where she finds work at Red Lobster, then later as an exotic dancer .

1991: Smith meets oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall at a strip club where she's performing. She takes modeling and voice lessons, and auditions for Playboy magazine.

1992: Smith graces the cover of Playboy in a low-cut evening gown and her hair styled like Marilyn Monroe.

1993: Smith is named Playmate of the Year and officially becomes divorced from Billy Wayne.

1994: Smith marries J. Howard Marshall in Houston. He is 89; she is 26. She lands her first film role as Zsa-Zsa in "The Hudsucker Proxy."

1995: Marshall dies 14 months after their marriage. Within weeks Smith squares off against Marshall's son E. Pierce Marshall in court, claiming Marshall promised her half of his $1.6 billion estate.

2002: After some failed attempts at acting ("To the Limit," 1995, "Skyscraper," 1997), Smith follows in the footsteps of "The Osbournes" and gets her own reality television show: "The Anna Nicole Smith Show."

2004: "The Anna Nicole Smith Show" stops filming due to "creative differences." The show universally was panned by critics, but developed a cult following.

2003: Smith becomes the spokeswoman for TrimSpa and allegedly loses 69 pounds using the drug.

June 2006: Smith announces her pregnancy on her website but does not identify the father. Her longtime lawyer Howard K. Stern and her ex-boyfriend photographer Larry Birkhead both claim paternity.

September 2006: Smith's daughter Dannielynn is born at Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas. Three days later Smith's son Daniel is found dead in his mother's hospital room. Eighteen days after Daniel's death Smith exchanges rings with Stern at an informal "commitment ceremony" on a ship in the Bahamas.

Feb. 8, 2007: Smith collapses at the Florida Hard Rock Casino. Fire crews and emergency personnel performed CPR on Smith, but she remained unresponsive and was transported to the hospital where she was declared dead.