Stern, who would factor into Anna Nicole's story forever after. One of the partners was attorney Howard K. According to a 2011 New York magazine profile, one of her nipples tore after a breast implant ruptured, and the pain of reconstructive surgery resulted in her going back on painkillers.Īround this time she was dropped by her agency William Morris and she signed up for representation with a small Beverly Hills legal firm. She checked into the Betty Ford Center to get clean but by early 1996 she had fallen off the wagon. Pierce then filed a defamation claim against her bankruptcy, angry at her claims that he had interfered with his father's intentions and prevented him from setting up the trust for Smith, isolating the old man in the process.īroke and in debt, Smith was taking huge amounts of painkillers and ended up in a coma after an overdose. "In the Playboy," she clarified to a speechless Regis and Kathie Lee.Ī sexual harassment suit filed against Smith by her son's nanny resulted in a $800,000 judgment against her after she missed several depositions, resulting in Smith filing for bankruptcy in California. "He goes, 'oh my god, I've looked at you,'" she recalled, laughing and also wincing a bit in embarrassment. Using her maiden name and not revealing who she was, Smith flew him out to L.A. She had also just kicked off her acting career with one line in The Hudsucker Proxy-and she had reunited with her biological father for the first time since her parents' divorce in 1969, enlisting a service called Birth Parents to track him down, which they did in about a week. "I think a lot of women can relate to my size," Smith-who started calling herself Anna Nicole when shooting her first Guess campaign-agreed on Live in 1993. Smith succeeded Claudia Schiffer as the face of the brand, promoting a refreshingly real (although still unreal) body type among the grunge-era waifs so in fashion at the time. To me, she was Anna, but Anna Smith did not sound right so we did Anna Nicole Smith." I took her to New York and got her an agent and changed her name. I had the kids' photographer shoot her on the spot. Everything I asked her she called me 'sir.' She had never done pictures before. "I said, 'Who are you?' She said she was a waitress at Red Lobster. I was shooting GUESS Kids and she came with her son Daniel," he said.
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