A documentary about Anna Nicole Smith will debut on Netflix next month, and the streamer finally released a first look at the film on April 17. The revelatory feature-length documentary, titled "Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me," will serve as an "unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death, and secrets" of Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, according to the synopsis - from the Playboy model and reality TV star's rise to stardom to her untimely death in 2007.
Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary features never-before-seen footage of Smith, home movies, and interviews with key figures closest to her who haven't spoken out about the model - until now. It'll also reveal "new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anyone really knew."
In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can expect from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. "I approached Anna Nicole's...
Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary features never-before-seen footage of Smith, home movies, and interviews with key figures closest to her who haven't spoken out about the model - until now. It'll also reveal "new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anyone really knew."
In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can expect from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. "I approached Anna Nicole's...
- 4/19/2023
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
A TV movie about the strange, short and ultimately tragic life of Anna Nicole Smith doesn't exactly inspire great expectations. But Lifetime's "Anna Nicole" disappoints both as a campy guilty pleasure and a movie with a surprisingly solid pedigree.
Lifetime didn't get just anyone to bring Smith's story to the screen. They landed Mary Harron, director of "American Psycho" and quirky, interesting biopics "I Shot Andy Warhol" and "The Notorious Bettie Page." Unfortunately, the odd coupling of filmmaker and network doesn't result in anything particularly memorable.
Harron gets decent performances from a strong cast -- led by Agnes Bruckner's game work in the difficult, nebulous central role -- provides a low-key, dreamy visual style, and ensures that the drama never gets too exploitative or laughable, but she's ultimately defeated by both TV movie conventions and the subject herself.
The narrative is standard little-girl-with-big-dreams stuff but Smith's life was a...
Lifetime didn't get just anyone to bring Smith's story to the screen. They landed Mary Harron, director of "American Psycho" and quirky, interesting biopics "I Shot Andy Warhol" and "The Notorious Bettie Page." Unfortunately, the odd coupling of filmmaker and network doesn't result in anything particularly memorable.
Harron gets decent performances from a strong cast -- led by Agnes Bruckner's game work in the difficult, nebulous central role -- provides a low-key, dreamy visual style, and ensures that the drama never gets too exploitative or laughable, but she's ultimately defeated by both TV movie conventions and the subject herself.
The narrative is standard little-girl-with-big-dreams stuff but Smith's life was a...
- 6/30/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Anna Nicole Smith's daughter with Larry Birkhead could soon inherit $49 million. A judge formally put an end to the more than a decade-long inheritance battle on Wednesday (29.05.13) between the late model's estate and family of her wealthy elderly husband, J. Howard Marshall II, who died a year after they married with an estimated net worth of up to $1 billion, but ordered sanctions against the estate of his late son, Pierce, for using delaying tactics in the case that is expected to see Anna's six-year-old daughter Dannielynn secure a multi-million dollar damages payment. According to Forbes.com, U.S. District Judge David...
- 6/1/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
A decision has been reached. After almost a decade battling in court, a California judge made a ruling in the federal case between the estates of Anna Nicole Smith and her late ex-husband, J. Howard Marshall II, on Wednesday, reports Forbes. Judge David O. Carter ruled Marshall's late son, Pierce, to be sanctioned for using delaying tactics throughout the case, meaning Smith's estate could receive close to $49 million. So who would stand to get the potentially massive chunk of change? Smith's only surviving child, 6-year-old daughter Dannielynn. While the amount of damages that Smith's daughter will receive has not yet be finalized, an Aug. 13 hearing has been set.
- 5/31/2013
- E! Online
Anna Nicole Smith may have the last word yet — and her daughter Dannielynn may become one very, very wealthy girl. In fact, according to Forbes, the 6-year-old daughter of Smith and Larry Birkhead may soon be $49 million richer. In a decision issued Wednesday, May 29, a federal judge in California put an end to the more than decade-long effort by Smith's estate to nab some of the massive fortune amassed by her unlikely and elderly husband, J. Howard Marshall II, who died just a year [...]...
- 5/31/2013
- Us Weekly
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Should coffee shops limit laptop usage? Is the autopsy dying? How can China’s game pirates be stopped? A look at some of the most interesting posts on the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Should Coffee Shop Owners Limit Laptop Usage?: Speculation is abuzz at websites Gothamist.com, cnet.com and others that Starbucks Coffee locations in New York City are putting solid plates over electric outlets, effectively limiting the time that laptop users can stay. [In Charge]
Co-Opting China’s...
Should coffee shops limit laptop usage? Is the autopsy dying? How can China’s game pirates be stopped? A look at some of the most interesting posts on the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Should Coffee Shop Owners Limit Laptop Usage?: Speculation is abuzz at websites Gothamist.com, cnet.com and others that Starbucks Coffee locations in New York City are putting solid plates over electric outlets, effectively limiting the time that laptop users can stay. [In Charge]
Co-Opting China’s...
- 8/5/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Little Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead's inheritance has become a case of Supreme importance. The U.S. Supreme Court, in mapping out their fall schedule, agreed to hear an appeal filed by Anna Nicole Smith's estate, which more than three years after her death is still trying to secure a slice of her late husband's fortune for Smith's daughter. Yes, you remember correctly, this case goes way back. Back in the 1990s, Smith challenged the will drawn up by her husband of 14 months, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, which left his $1.6 billion fortune to his son and nothing to her. The former Playboy Playmate insisted he promised her upward of $300 million—a claim his son's...
- 9/28/2010
- E! Online
Poor Dannielynn. Literally. A federal appeals court said today that the estate of Anna Nicole Smith is not entitled to the $300 million-plus judgment previously awarded from her late oil tycoon hubby's billion-dollar estate. The ruling by a three-judge panel could end a court battle that dates back to 1995—shortly after J. Howard Marshall II died and Smith sued son Pierce Marshall for half of his father's $1.6 billion. She eventually won $449 million, which was eventually reduced on appeal, and the case raged on even when the younger Marshall died in 2006 and Smith fell victim to a drug overdose the following year. "After millions of dollars of legal fees, having Pierce dragged through the...
- 3/19/2010
- E! Online
We just spoke with the guy who triggered the murder-for-hire investigation into Anna Nicole Smith -- and he says she repeatedly asked him to kill the son of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.Mark "Hollywood" Hatten, Anna's ex-bf, says a drug-addled Smith was continually "begging with me to kill E. Pierce Marshall" claiming after her husband died, Pierce was "standing in the way of her money." Hatten says he told Pierce's lawyer about the alleged plot.
- 10/7/2009
- TMZ
Anna Nicole Smith was investigated by the FBI over a possible plot to kill the son of J. Howard Marshall II -- the 89-year-old oil tycoon she married when she was 26, this according to newly released documents.The investigation took place between 2000 - 2001 -- after J. Howard's death -- when his son, E. Pierce Marshall, was trying to keep Anna Nicole from getting a chunk of his father's wealth ... valued in the hundreds of millions.
- 10/7/2009
- TMZ
A real estate agent has been jailed for contempt of court as part of an ongoing Internet lawsuit over late model Anna Nicole Smith.
Lyndal Harrington, from Houston, Texas, is accused of defamation in a civil suit brought by Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.
Arthur took action against Harrington after she posted comments on an Internet blog allegedly making false remarks about Arthur's relationship with her daughter, who died of an accidental drugs overdose in 2007.
Harrington last week (beg 25May09) spent four nights in jail after failing to comply with a court order to turn over her computer to authorities. She claimed the machine had been stolen in a burglary less than a week after it was subpoenaed.
But a police officer told the Texan court he believed the theft had been staged, and Harrington has been ordered to produce the computer by 2 July or face further incarceration.
The suit names three other bloggers along with Smith's former lawyer-turned-lover, Howard K. Stern, and Larry Birkhead, the father of her daughter, Dannielynn.
Arthur alleges the defendants conspired to defame her so she wouldn't gain custody of Dannielynn, who stands to inherit up a multi-million dollar fortune
Birkhead was granted custody of the tot in 2007 after a DNA test proved him to be her father. Lawyers are currently battling in court over the two year old's inheritance from Smith's late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who passed away in 1994.
Lyndal Harrington, from Houston, Texas, is accused of defamation in a civil suit brought by Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur.
Arthur took action against Harrington after she posted comments on an Internet blog allegedly making false remarks about Arthur's relationship with her daughter, who died of an accidental drugs overdose in 2007.
Harrington last week (beg 25May09) spent four nights in jail after failing to comply with a court order to turn over her computer to authorities. She claimed the machine had been stolen in a burglary less than a week after it was subpoenaed.
But a police officer told the Texan court he believed the theft had been staged, and Harrington has been ordered to produce the computer by 2 July or face further incarceration.
The suit names three other bloggers along with Smith's former lawyer-turned-lover, Howard K. Stern, and Larry Birkhead, the father of her daughter, Dannielynn.
Arthur alleges the defendants conspired to defame her so she wouldn't gain custody of Dannielynn, who stands to inherit up a multi-million dollar fortune
Birkhead was granted custody of the tot in 2007 after a DNA test proved him to be her father. Lawyers are currently battling in court over the two year old's inheritance from Smith's late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who passed away in 1994.
- 6/1/2009
- WENN
Strike two for Howard K. Stern this week. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected a request filed Monday by Stern, the executor of Anna Nicole Smith's estate, to lift a federal appellate court's stay on the $88.5 million the late star was awarded in 2002 from the $1.2 billion fortune of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. The Supreme Court determined in 2006 that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had overstepped its authority by wiping out the federal court judgment altogether. But the appeals court has been sitting on the award since the sudden death of Marshall's son and the family's chief anti-Anna activist, E. Pierce Marshall in June 2006, just weeks after the...
- 3/13/2009
- E! Online
Lawyers for Anna Nicole Smith have stepped up the ongoing battle over the late star's inheritance from her dead husband - asking the U.S. Supreme Court to finally resolve the dispute.
Smith, who died in 2007 at the age of 39, was 26 when she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994.
He died a year later and Smith claimed her husband had made an oral promise to give her half his estate.
Smith - who was born Vickie Lynn Hogan - battled her late spouse's son, E. Pierce Marshall, to be awarded $88.5 million (£61 million) of his fortune.
But the money has been held up in the appeals court, with Pierce Marshall arguing that various wills and trusts his father had prepared over the years named him sole heir.
America's Supreme Court ruled in May 2006 that Smith could pursue her late husband's fortune in federal court.
Pierce Marshall died a month later but the battle continued with the executors of his estate - and is still going on after Smith's own death, with her lawyers seeking the money on behalf of the star's two-year-old daughter Dannielynn.
And now Smith's lawyers have filed papers claiming the dispute needs to be settled soon as most of Marshall's $125 million (£86 million) estate is now owed to the Internal Revenue Service - and Smith's settlement risks being lost if it continues to be held up by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The papers state, "Vickie's estate will undeniably suffer irreparable harm if the stay is not vacated, as Pierce's executor claims there is no money to pay the district court judgment, and Vickie's estate cannot pursue Pierce's missing billions unless and until the stay (hold on the money) is vacated."...
Smith, who died in 2007 at the age of 39, was 26 when she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994.
He died a year later and Smith claimed her husband had made an oral promise to give her half his estate.
Smith - who was born Vickie Lynn Hogan - battled her late spouse's son, E. Pierce Marshall, to be awarded $88.5 million (£61 million) of his fortune.
But the money has been held up in the appeals court, with Pierce Marshall arguing that various wills and trusts his father had prepared over the years named him sole heir.
America's Supreme Court ruled in May 2006 that Smith could pursue her late husband's fortune in federal court.
Pierce Marshall died a month later but the battle continued with the executors of his estate - and is still going on after Smith's own death, with her lawyers seeking the money on behalf of the star's two-year-old daughter Dannielynn.
And now Smith's lawyers have filed papers claiming the dispute needs to be settled soon as most of Marshall's $125 million (£86 million) estate is now owed to the Internal Revenue Service - and Smith's settlement risks being lost if it continues to be held up by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The papers state, "Vickie's estate will undeniably suffer irreparable harm if the stay is not vacated, as Pierce's executor claims there is no money to pay the district court judgment, and Vickie's estate cannot pursue Pierce's missing billions unless and until the stay (hold on the money) is vacated."...
- 3/10/2009
- WENN
Those looking out for Anna Nicole Smith's estate—and the fortunes of Smith's sole heir, 2-year-old Dannielynn—have not forgotten about the $88.5 million a judge once wanted her to have. Attorneys representing the late model's estate have again taken the now 14-year-old case to the U.S. Supreme Court, this time to lift the nearly three-year-old stay on the eight-figure inheritance Smith was awarded in 2002 from the estate of her late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Marshall died in 1995 at the age of 90 after barely a year of marriage to the Playboy Playmate. Smith's stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, had led the family crusade against Smith getting a penny of their...
- 3/10/2009
- E! Online
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