• Anna Nicole Smith died from an unintended drug overdose in a lodge room on the age of 39 in 2007.
• Her dying got here lower than 5 months after her son Daniel, 20, died and her daughter was born.
• Her premature dying led to a fierce custody battle over her daughter, who was her sole surviving inheritor.

Anna Nicole Smith rose to prominence within the Nineties as a Playboy Playmate and have become a daily fixture of the tabloids because of her occasion woman persona and eyebrow-raising marriage on the age of 26 to 89-year-old Houston oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. 

The inheritance lawsuit that adopted Marshall’s dying in 1995, 14 months after they tied the knot, in addition to her early 2000s actuality present then furthered her celeb, making her each a family identify and a nationwide laughing inventory.

As a brand new Netflix documentary, “Anna Nicole Smith: You Do not Know Me,” makes an attempt to shed new mild on Smith’s life and legacy, this is the whole lot you want to know in regards to the mannequin’s tragic dying.

Smith had a historical past of substance abuse going again to the early Nineties

In “You Do not Know Me,” Smith’s buddy and supposed former lover Missy Byrum claimed that Smith’s dependancy to pharmaceuticals began after she bought breast augmentation surgical procedure when she was in her early twenties.

“Valium, Xanax, Lortabs, Vicodin, and Klonopin,” mentioned Byrum. “From that point on she was all the time taking them. There was nothing she might do to cease it.”

Byrum claimed that, by the early Nineties, Smith was a “full-blown drug addict” and the documentary confirmed that in 1994, Smith had survived an unintended overdose in a Hollywood lodge room.

The Playboy mannequin and actor died in a lodge room in Florida

Smith was present in an unresponsive state on February 8, 2007, based on The New York Occasions. 

A personal nurse, who an episode of “The Ultimate 24” recognized because the spouse of Smith’s bodyguard, made a number of resuscitation makes an attempt earlier than paramedics made it to the scene. Nonetheless, Smith was pronounced useless by the point she was taken to the hospital that very same afternoon.

An investigation into Smith’s dying, led by Broward County Medical Examiner and forensic pathologist Joshua Perper concluded that the mannequin and actress died of “mixed drug intoxication.”

The post-mortem report mentioned that the first drug in her system was chloral hydrate, which is a very potent sedative that additionally contributed to the dying of her idol Marilyn Monroe. 

The coroner dominated out suicide as a possible reason behind dying, as per the New York Occasions, Smith’s mates instructed Perper she was in “excellent normal spirits” within the days previous, despite the fact that she was nonetheless mourning the dying of her son.

The documentary claimed that Smith had made a number of makes an attempt to take her personal life within the throes of her grief.

She was buried on the Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleum within the Bahamas, alongside her son. Her late husband additionally has his ashes buried in her casket.

Her son additionally died of an unintended overdose

Smith’s son Daniel — whom she had welcomed along with her first husband Billy Smith in 1986 — died on September 10, 2006, 5 months earlier than his mom’s passing and simply three days after his youthful sister Dannielynn’s delivery. 

Daniel, who was 20 on the time, had been visiting Smith within the Bahamas within the days following Dannielynn’s arrival. Per a CNN report, he had died whereas spending the evening in his mom’s hospital room and he or she had been the one to find his physique the next morning.

Hospital personnel made makes an attempt to revive him and after they stopped and dominated him formally useless, Smith “who couldn’t settle for his dying” took over. The outlet famous that she finally needed to be sedated.

His reason behind dying was later decided to be an unintended drug overdose, based on Reuters.

Smith’s dying led to a fierce custody battle over her daughter, who individuals believed was set to inherit tens of millions

Because the documentary chronicles, after Smith’s dying, there was renewed curiosity to find out the daddy of her then 4-month-old child daughter. As Smith’s sole surviving inheritor, she was set to inherit any cash that Smith was entitled to from the property of her late husband.

Howard Ok. Stern, Smith’s lawyer who had been dwelling along with her within the Bahamas on the time of her dying, and was named on Dannielynn’s delivery certificates, claimed that he was the daddy, whereas leisure photographer Larry Birkhead filed a lawsuit to show that he was.

Others akin to Alexander Denk, a former bodyguard and chef for Smith, additionally made a declare of paternity as did Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who emerged within the days following Smith’s dying to say that he had a decade-long affair with the mannequin and will probably be the dad.

After a DNA take a look at came about, it was decided that Birkhead was Dannielynn’s organic father and he gained sole custody. In 2014, seven years after Smith’s dying, her property failed in its last bid to acquire her late husband’s cash.

“Anna Nicole Smith: You Do not Know Me” is now obtainable to stream on Netflix.