Tragic Beauty: Anna Nicole Smith
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A white female. She's not breathing and she's not responsive. She's actually Anna Nicole Smith. This morning, tragic beauty. Anna Nicole Smith died. Anna Nicole Smith has died.

- Anna, one more time. - She might've been one of the most famous faces in the world. - Shooting for guests makes Anna Nicole Smith a star. - She was ridiculed, but there's a whole story the public doesn't know. - People have a perception that she was this dumb blonde. She wasn't. - I'm fine, I'm well, I'm here.

Every single thing I touch has a story to it. She snagged a very rich man who was near death. One of the world's richest men. Anna never gave a **** about money. She loved Mr. Marshall tremendously. He left her nothing. Zero. She is one hot mess, except maybe she's not that hot anymore. Make me beautiful.

Anna Nicole Smith just gave birth to a baby girl only to have her 20-year-old son Daniel die at her maternity bedside. And then the unimaginable happens. Anna herself dies just five months later. The question of why no one called 911 sooner is never fully answered. Do you know what this even is? I thought it would be important to show Danny Lynn a little bit about where her mom came from. There you are with your mommy.

She wanted a little girl to treat like a little princess, to dress up. I think she wanted somebody that she could raise as her own and maybe get back what she didn't have. She had this trunk at the edge of her bed and she would pull it out and everything was for a baby girl. She wanted a baby girl. Something she longed for, something she wanted. And Dani-Lynn came and that was her dream. I was so happy for her. I was just so happy for her.

But only five months later, Anna Nicole was dead. She left behind a man who loved her and a daughter she never got to see grow up. I have a daughter who doesn't have a mom. And I have to paint a picture for Danny Lynn of who her mom was. I do it for Danny Lynn. We are headed to a little town called Mejia, Texas.

Daylin's a teenager now and you know she doesn't really know a ton of things about her mom. I thought why not go back to Anna's beginnings and kind of see where Anna got her start. It's keeping her memory alive for my daughter. The Mahayan population 7,459 people. Anna told me she always wanted to get out of there.

but I am excited to meet Anna's friend Jo. I'd never met her before. She kind of held the key to a lot of stories that I thought was important for our journey. My name is Jo McLemore. Anna Nicole and I were best friends. I'm really looking forward to meeting Danny Lin for the first time. Oh my goodness, can I hug you? Yes, yes. Hi, so good to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Hi. Oh my goodness.

You are your mommy. You look just like her. When I first met her, that's exactly what I remember. Just like that. You're so beautiful. Anna Nicole Smith's birth name was Vicki Lynn Hogan. She lived in Houston with her family, but she did have problems in Houston. Her mom, Virgie, is 16 when she gets married and gives birth to Vicki. The father, Donald Hogan, is soon out of the picture.

Vicki Lynn's mother, Virgie, was a deputy sheriff in Houston. She carried herself like a deputy sheriff. She was very stern and forthright and very strict. Vicki's childhood life was tough. She was in an abusive situation. She was sexually abused and physically abused. That's what she told me, and that's what she would cry about. I wasn't there, but I believe her.

She is sent to Mejia, this tiny dusty town, to live with her Aunt Kay and her cousins. Mejia had nothing. Mejia was like being sent to the end of the world. We had nothing in Mejia. We didn't have a bowling alley. We didn't have anything. What we did is, it was called the drag. And you go up and down the street and you drink beer. And you talk to people and hang out the window, "Hello!" and things like that. That was it.

This is the house where Anna Nicole lived with her aunt and her cousins. As you can tell now, it's vacant. Two bedroom, but we made the fortune to a three bedroom. A three little bedroom. She had been hoping for a better environment for herself, and at that point we invited her to come live with us. So this is the high school where your mommy went, Mahea High School. This would be her 10th grade year.

Yes. That was her last year in school too, I think. It was. When she went to school here in Mahea, she was miserable. She was having a hard time with being bullied. At that point, I think, after all she'd been through, all the struggles in her life, she was finally fed up and she said, "You know what? I'm done." And she said, "I'm quitting. I don't want to be here anymore." And we actually went and picked her up the day she walked out of the school, and she never went back.

So this is where your mama and I used to hang out. We'd come over here after work or between, you know, the shifts and just cruise through here. Was there anything else to do with this? Yeah, there's nothing else to do here, Danny.

There's no movie theaters. I mean, there wasn't Starbucks or anything. Basically, the main place to eat was Crispy's. Give me directions to Jim's Crispy Fried Chicken. Getting directions to Jim's Crispy Fried Chicken. This is Crispy's. You can already smell the chicken. I can smell it. They're not even opening. You can smell it. It's so great.

So I was working here and she would come in every day and she'd order a large drink, but she always looked really sad to me. Sad? Yeah, she always looked very, very sad. But when she started working here, we immediately headed off and one of the memories I have of her is we'd sit here together and stare out the window and just watch traffic go by. She was so perfect to me, perfect face. And I would tell her, "You're so, so pretty." She gets pretty sweet on the guy who runs the Friolator.

whose name is Billy Smith. And so, before you know it, she and Billy Smith are an item, and not much longer, Billy Smith marries Vicki and makes her Vicki Smith. - Billy was also a high school dropout, and they were so young. He was 16, she was 17, and then she had her son when she was 18. - I thought to myself, "I'm so lonely." I thought, "Well, if I have a baby, I'll never be lonely again."

And I have my son and I'm not lonely and I love him and he's great and wonderful. Her and Billy started having problems. They couldn't make things work out. So she decided, "I'm leaving." She left Billy.

Vicki leaves her husband and decides to move back to Houston with her mom, Virgie. She has barely a 10th grade education. She has work experience at a fried chicken restaurant. And she's now a single mom with no other apparent skills. She works a little at Walmart. And she works a little at Red Lobster. But they don't earn a ton of money. So what she does is walk into a gentleman's club

and ask if she can get a job. There were a number of strip clubs near the Walmart where she worked, and one of them had a big blue and white sign that had a woman in a bikini. I would drive by the work every day, and there was this big neon sign. It was blue and white.

and it had this lady in high heel shoes, and she had the bikini on, and it would flash tiptoe and back, tiptoe and back like that. And I was like, oh, you know, how neat. I didn't know it was topless, though. I didn't know anything about that. You must have been pretty naive. I was, trust me. Vicki may have been naive, but she was about to learn a lot very quickly.

Everything in Texas is bigger and bolder. And there was no place that was wilder and maybe more fun than Houston back in the 80s. It's a port city, and I think port cities are more kind of fluid. People are passing through, and maybe they think they won't be remembered so they can act out a little more. ♪

It was a tawdry place in a lot of ways. The huge, sprawling gentlemen's clubs were founded here. Breast enhancements were developed here. People were always making themselves up here.

In 1986, Anna Nicole's name was Vicki Lynn Smith. She had just moved back to Houston with her son, whose father was out of the picture. She needed a way to support herself. She's very uneducated, and she had to get a quick job or a quick fix in order to take care of her son. So she did start dancing initially because that's the only way she had a way to make income. My former wife, Melissa, used to work at the executive suite in North Houston.

It was a higher class gentleman's entertainment club and she was there the day Vicki Smith walked in the door to apply for a job as a waitress and later become a dancer. First thing Melissa, my wife, noticed was that Anna was just terrified, literally terrified. I mean she was definitely green to that kind of lifestyle.

She was always tall, a large girl, and she was very self-conscious about that and very, very shy, introverted. It was tough taking my clothes off and it was tough doing the table dances. The day that I went on to dance the first time, I ran out because I was so horrified and so ashamed of myself, but

When I was driving to work, I looked down and saw all this money in my... And I was like, wow, it was like $50. Like, whoa, $50. And back then, that was a lot of money for me. She was living with her friend Melissa, and her son Daniel was living with her mother, Virgie.

Anna wanted him to move in with her. Her biggest fear was that Daniel would forget about her and not ever want to be with her again. Daniel was her life. She said, "I am going to be the sexiest in here because I need money and I need to take care of my son." And she pulled that off very quickly. I've represented some strippers as a criminal defense attorney. They're assessing the room.

They're looking for the guy who has an ability to spend. Then they have to figure out, well, which role does he want me to play? Anna developed a baby's voice when she talked to guys and she would get in that mode and they would just break down. They would eat that up.

The irony is that when she started out, Anna Nicole was, in her own words, flat chested. She didn't have B, C, D. She didn't have that. She had little tiny breasts. And so she begins saving money and now begins to engage in a series of breast augmentation procedures.

That's when she really started making the big bucks. Men loved the fact that here was this big old Texas girl with that big old blonde Texas hair. Believe it or not, as good as she was at dancing, it was still in her mind that this was just not who I am. She never felt comfortable with it. She would just continuously say, you know, I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. I'm disrespecting myself, my mother, my child.

So it's 1991 and Vicki's been dancing for four years when an unlikely figure is wheeled in the front door. He is J. Howard Marshall II. J. Howard Marshall is about to change Vicki's life because he is not your average 87-year-old billionaire.

J. Howard Marshall comes from a prominent East Coast family. He's Yale educated, works in the Roosevelt administration on oil projects, and eventually becomes associated with the famous Koch brothers, which turns him into a billionaire. So Marshall's second wife is stricken with Alzheimer's, and he's a very lonely man. So he then begins a 10-year relationship with a very exotic, flamboyant stripper named Lady Walker.

He lavished her with flowers, love notes, diamonds. He was still married, and both he and Lady Walker agreed that it would be very wrong for them to have sex. He spent millions and millions of dollars on her over the years. But whatever their relationship was about, it didn't seem to be about sex. He felt like he was her protector. He would write her these florid, romantic notes.

which she would respond to in kind. And along with giving her these florid romantic notes, he'd give her checks. Lots of them. So the relationship is very devoted, but Lady Walker suddenly dies.

Here was Marshall. He'd lost his wife, who he really did love, to Alzheimer's. He'd lost his paramour, who I think he really did love, who died on the operating table getting a facelift. So it's October 1991 and Marshall is despondent. So when he wheels into Gigi's one lunchtime and sees this 24-year-old blonde dancer in front of him, his heart is taken.

He had no will to live and I went over to see him and he got a little twinkle in his eyes and he asked me to dance for him and I did. He was very funny, really funny. He got very brilliant, very smart. Gosh, he had so many stories. I mean, he was an amazing man.

It was just really amazing. - From the very first time she met Howard, she thought of him as a grandfather figure. And once we met Howard, I mean, you thought the same way. Very likable man, very knowledgeable, very smart. - They would phone call every day and talk to each other. And they were so cute on the phone. She would call him sugar bugger and sweetheart and all that. And they needed each other in more of a sense than people understood. And so they just took care of each other.

Marshall had two sons, and the son he was closest to was Pierce Marshall, who was this very upright, waspy, proper person. I think Anna Nicole would have just sent him screaming from the room. Pierce wants to put an end to it right away. J. Howard Marshall II tells his son Pierce, she makes me enjoy life again.

So, within a week of meeting Vicki, Marshall proposes marriage. She says no because she's determined to make something of herself on her own. So what J. Howard Marshall doesn't know is that Vicki is in love with someone else. And in this case, it's a woman.

There's a game that dancers use in a club wherein they work the guy with a story, that they're together as women, and most of the time they're just playing the role, you know, to get the guy to spend his money. But that pretty quickly evolved into the real thing with Anna. So around the same time that she meets J. Howard Marshall, she meets somebody else. One day she walks into a gay club, and all eyes are on Anna.

But her eyes are on this woman named Sandy, who works in a store that sells garden supplies. Anna shows up at her house in a big white limousine with flowers and gifts. And their relationship got very, very serious. Anna said she loved Sandy. They had wedding rings. You know, they were going to carry on a continual relationship. She even mentioned that, you know, that was going to be her life. They...

lived together for a while and it seemed like they had a very loving relationship. And she had a boyfriend, a girlfriend. It was not abnormal for Anna to have several boyfriends or girlfriends at the same time. She didn't hide it and it didn't bother her. Sweet.

She seems to be a woman of considerable appetites. She likes a lot of input. She eats and drinks freely. She seems to take on a fair amount of lovers. Thanks to her time with J. Howard Marshall II, she develops a new appetite for extremely expensive jewelry. He gives Vicki jewelry, a house, a red Mercedes convertible, and breast augmentation surgery. And he buys her a ranch.

and Arabian horses to go with the ranch. Fikih loves animals and she especially loves her horses. This is Rose. This is my horse.

So he takes Vicki to his favorite restaurant, Red Lobster, and there he proposes again. I mean, he's a billionaire, and his favorite restaurant is Red Lobster. And he actually asked her to marry him at the table. And Anna said, no, I'm not going to get married until I'm able to support myself and make it on my own. I'm going to make it on my own.

So at the time, even while she's engaged in this kind of elaborate courtship with J. Howard Marshall II, she has a boyfriend. And he takes a few pictures of her and sends them to a photographer, manager, scout for Playboy in the Texas area.

She came in, I was quite taken. She looked like an Amazon woman to me. Very, very tall, 5'11", wore five inch heels, a spandex dress, this god awful blue eye shadow. But underneath all of that you saw the pretty face. She walked a little clumsy. She walked like a duck. But Anna Nicole Smith was the sweetest girl you would ever want to meet. I mean, you would want her as a sister.

Sent the film off. The very next day, Playboy called and they said, "This girl's gonna be a Playmate." Around 1992, my uncle called me, who lived here, and said, "Nikki made Playboy." And I said, "What?" He said, "She made Playboy." And I said, "She did not." And I was kind of weirded out. I was proud of her, but I was like, "She's up here now, and I'm down here, and she's never gonna..." I'm a little person now, I think, is what I was feeling.

She appears on the cover of Playboy in March of 1992. It is a life-changing event because Paul Marciano, who runs Guess Jeans, sees her photos. Marciano calls Playboy and a meeting is set up. He came to see me and I didn't think he liked me at first. So they made up my hair and they made up, put a dress on me and stuff and

But Marciano thinks Vicky needs a new name. So together they come up with Anna Nicole Smith.

When Anna Cole Smith first sort of burst on the scene, she didn't look like any model anyone had seen for a long time. She was curvy. She was voluptuous at a time when models were very, very thin. So much of the beauty that came before that

was really about this emphasis on the narrowness of the body that you just couldn't even achieve. Like, I'm like, am I even a person? So when you saw her, it was like, we are really doing something different. You know, you sort of like think about blondes as being this kind of metaphor for female power and female empowerment and the control that we actually have over men. It seems so exciting.

Those pictures alone, I think, mesmerize the world. That first day shooting for Guess makes Anna Nicole Smith a worldwide star. And she's about to get everything she could have possibly have dreamed of and a lot of things that she never dreamed of that are kind of her nightmare.

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I worked with her over a year's period of time. And you could see the difference because when she came in, she was just a girl from a fried chicken place. And now she was a big star. She wasn't going to trust anybody. She was just going to perform for you. It was like she was probably back in the strip club. She really had the ability to make you believe that you were very special.

She starts modeling overseas. Her billboard ads turn up on Norwegian and Swedish highways. They're so sexy that there are traffic accidents. It got to the point where the parliament in Norway actually had a debate as to whether the billboards featuring Anna Nicole Smith should be taken down because they represented a threat to public safety. Anna Nicole Smith. That name, that face,

That figure became a topic of international fascination. And where does someone like Anna Nicole Smith belong? Hollywood. Here she is, Anna Nicole Smith.

Anna, how are you? I'm Regis. She's signed by William Morris, one of the town's biggest talent agencies. There's a film being made called The Hudsucker Proxy, and Nicole Smith winds up in The Hudsucker Proxy as a fashion model named Zaza. Did you have any lines? Well, just one. One line? Yeah, but I got to growl like a cat in heat. What does that sound like?

Just give us a little preview of the movie. What does the cat sound like? Something like "Reeewr" She has her first line on the screen in which she employs her boyfriend to punch Tim Robbins. And Sid says you stole it! What are you waiting on Clarence? Pop him one! But Buzz!

She makes the rounds on talk shows like the Arsenio Hall Show. You're making the acting transition now. Didn't you just finish a project? I just finished the Hudsucker Proxy and I'm fixing the star. I'm sorry, say that again. The Hudsucker Proxy. Yeah, I just like to see you say Hudsucker. The first time I met Anna Nicole, there was a sparkle about her. As a journalist, you're trying to stay objective and all those kinds of things, and I have to admit, I just kind of fell in love with her.

She is so over the top in her siren hood. She doesn't just play the girlfriend, she plays like the apotheosis of the va-va-voom girlfriend. And that's what she plays in Naked Gun 33 and a Third. What are you doing? I'm just contemplating my next move. Your bishop is exposed.

So Ann Nicole Smith appears in these two movies and she acquits herself fairly well. And it looks as if she might end up being something of a 1990s version of Jane Mansfield, who was a famous sexpot from the 1950s. Her figure is kind of her calling card, but it also leads to medical problems. She was in constant pain with her back from her implants. Her back wasn't strong enough to carry them.

And so the doctor started to give her pain medication. She also suffers from migraines, so she's on all kinds of pain medication. She winds up in the hospital accidentally overdosing. Have you used drugs at all? I've never used drugs. I don't use drugs. You know, I had Vicodin and Xanax. That's prescription drugs that I have to take for my migraines and for insomnia. I mean, I don't consider that hard drugs. It doesn't make me high.

It's just, you know, I've been taking it for years. It just helps my headaches. You were very, very pale and very sick and you had things in your arm, needles in your arm and things. What had happened? I'm fine, I'm well, I'm here. I'm not overdosed, I'm not dead.

I think they're trying to make it look like a Marilyn Monroe remake. One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is dead at 36. Anna Nicole is a huge Marilyn Monroe fan. I hate a careless man. J. Howard Marshall even rents Marilyn Monroe's old house for her. When did you start loving Marilyn Monroe? I don't know, just...

Connect somehow. We have this special bond. It's just like, I don't know, I used to wish she was my mom. Yeah? I want to be the sex symbol. I want to be what she was. I want to do the movies she did. I want to sing. I want to dance. I want to do all that.

People have a perception that she was this dumb blonde. She wasn't. Not at all. She could do anything that she wanted to do. What she decides to do after four years of turning down his proposals is to marry J. Howard Marshall.

and they have a wedding ceremony for the ages. Her son is one of the ring bearers, along with one of his cousins. The ring is attached to a beautiful fluffy pillow. The groom is all dressed in white as he's wheeled up to the altar.

Two doves are released to symbolize the beauty of their relationship. You may now kiss the bride. She even tries to get him to stand next to her at the altar. But he's an old man. He's too frail to get out of his wheelchair. Anna Nicole Smith is 26. J. Howard Marshall is 89. And $400 million. $400 million? I'd marry him.

So after they married, they start to think about things that lots of new couples thinking about, which is having children. She and J. Howard Marshall consult a fertility expert, but he is 89, so that's not happening. By now, sirens are going off in Howard Marshall's son's head about what's going to happen to the money he expects to inherit when his father dies.

Anna Nicole lives in Los Angeles and J. Howard Marshall lives in Houston. And when J. Howard Marshall visits Anna in Los Angeles, Pierce hires detectives to watch them to make sure that they don't go and try to change the terms of J. Howard Marshall's will. But it was never about that. And she loved this man. She would sit close to him with her legs on the couch over him, and he would laugh.

About six months after they got married, Mr. Marshall got very sick. We were shooting in Las Vegas and she flew down to be with him. Pierce didn't like Anna Nicole Smith. This young 20-something stripper who's wormed her way into his father's life at the end of it? What way is he going to give her one dime? And it gets really ugly.

Jay Howard Marshall is in the hospital and his condition is clearly on the decline.

And so enter his son, Pierce, who'd been given power of attorney. Marshall's caregiver, Betty Morgan, becomes his guardian. And then Anna finds herself cut off financially. And at one point, she was only permitted to see her husband for 30 minutes a visit. The family said that was because of the doctor's instructions. But she was heartbroken. They had armed security guards.

The old man really had no control because he was essentially dying. Fourteen months after their wedding, J. Howard Marshall died.

90-year-old oil man J. Howard Marshall II has been dead for a week, but his remains have yet to be put to rest because of the legal bickering between his widow and his family. When he died, a huge fight ensues over whether we're going to cremate J. Howard Marshall II or whether we're going to bury J. Howard Marshall II.

They have to go to court to settle this thing, which is pretty bizarre, and obviously the press goes wild. Anna Nicole Smith Marshall stepped off the elevator on the fifth floor into a horde of news media, who first began to sag back, and then when their quarry changed directions, it was off to the races. Anna Nicole Smith has conceded to the cremation of her deceased millionaire husband, J. Howard Marshall. She also has agreed to share a portion of the ashes with the oil baron's children.

So then they have separate funerals. So at the funeral of her husband, Anna Nicole Smith is wearing the dress that she married him in, and to commemorate his passing, she sings. She sings "Wind Beneath My Wings." Did that Bidler hit? J. Howard Marshall, when he dies, leaves a massive fortune. Estimates range up to $1.6 billion. However, he leaves nothing in his will to his wife, Anna Nicole Smith, or her son, Daniel. He left her nothing. Zero.

Zero. Zero. He was taking care of her. There was a suggestion, a promise, you know, was there a contract? Clearly not. She didn't get a contract. It turns out Pierce is the main beneficiary. So Anna Nicole sues Pierce in Texas for a share of the estate. It's going to be a battle royale between the bombshell and the billionaire. I have nothing to say. Thank you very much. But it will take years before the case gets before a jury.

In this journal entry, Anna writes, "Me and Daniel have no money to live on because of the press and getting no work. I miss my husband. He would just kill Pierce if he knew what was going on." You know what her favorite thing was to do? Have you ever seen a VTR tape? Yes. Okay. She'd go up here to this blockbuster and she would rent movies and she'd just sit in the bed for like the whole weekend and order takeout food. She loved to just stay in and watch scary movies. And then she'd paint.

I plan to take Dani Lynn to Los Angeles because I thought it was important. Her mom lived half of her life in LA. I thought it would be great to have her sit down with Ray Martina who shed some insight on her life prior to me meeting you. Hi babe, how are you? Good, how are you doing? Good to see you. Hi honey. Ray, what year did you meet Anna? 1995. Starting to cast my film and we got the script to Anna.

She read it. We got a call the next day and she says, I want this part. She had a big price tag on her, but we could only afford a certain amount. The agency, William Morris, said, don't do this film. And she says, I get a chance to play different characters and I don't want to always play these bimbos. In To the Limit, she plays a CIA double agent. Anna Nicole Smith shoots a lot of guys.

To The Limit went straight to video. This is what I look like when I'm sober. Her dream was to be a serious actor. I don't know if I can say the right words, Joe. She was very, very talented, very deep, tremendously emotional. She makes another movie with Ray Martino. It's called Skyscraper, but it's only seen overseas. William Morris and Anna parted ways and, you know, things weren't...

things weren't going well for her. What had appeared to be excellent opportunities started to dry up. She connects with this entertainment lawyer named Howard K. Stern. He soon becomes her confidant and her advisor. Here we go, right here. On top of her career problems, she's also having problems with her implants. I had an apartment in Burbank, and she was in the bedroom, and she started crying, screaming and yelling.

And we ran into the bedroom. She had a hand over her breasts and her breasts exploded. So I rushed her to the hospital and she was in terrific pain. She's got migraines, stomach problems, breast implants causing back pains. She's got seizures. She's taking methadone for pain, Klonopin for those seizures. She's taking a lot of medication.

I was on prescription pain medication and I was taking too much and I went into a coma for that. When I came out of the coma, I couldn't talk and I couldn't walk. It was pretty bad.

- Can we get through here, please? - There aren't many offers and not much money coming in. Anna Nicole declares bankruptcy. - The California federal bankruptcy judge finds that Pierce was conspiring with his lawyer and his accountant to cheat Anna out of her portion of the inheritance. - Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith is a multi-million dollar winner. A Los Angeles federal court awarded Smith almost $450 million of her husband J. Howard Marshall's estate.

She goes from zero to $447 million. Cha-ching. Now she's a millionaire. Wait, there's another court in another state that could take it all away. But she's about to reinvent herself. Hello, Romeo. Hey, punk-a-pin. She says yes to a reality show. And her life is going to get crazier and stranger than ever before. Anna Nicole Smith's wild night at the American Music Award. It was this surreal moment.

where Anna Nicole Smith winds up in front of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. - My life is like a living soap opera. - Anna! - Straighten your head, straighten your head. - Let's go stop the camera, please. - Let's give her a moment. - As tragic as some of the events were, the cameras never stopped rolling. It was all about the cash register ring. - Her friends say when they talk to her, she's rushed off the phone. - Anna had a lot of people in her ear telling her things.

She took my hand and she put it over on her stomach. She's pregnant. The next thing I know, she's taken off to the Bahamas. It's catnip for all the tabloids. Who is the daddy? I'm having a baby. It was almost like another episode of a reality show. She just started to cave in. I just started screaming her name. I asked her, I said, "Baby girl, if you got anything in you, please come back." Her death was this huge story. I mean, huge.

I haven't been to the storage in years, to be honest. Daylon has no idea that she's gonna see these things. Anna Nicole Smith has just won a huge chunk of her husband's estate in a court in California. But it's not over. She still has to do battle with his son in a different court in Texas. And she could lose it all. We have an exclusive interview with Anna Nicole Smith. The celebrity model is the star attraction in a Texas courtroom later this week.

as she fights to claim a share of her late husband's $1.6 billion estate. She calls me and she says, "Well, I'm doing 2020." They were going to give her a chance to set the record straight. This story will not be a good story by beating up on you, but somewhere in the course of my interview with you, I'm hoping you can tell me what it was about him

that you, I suspect, truly loved. It was not his fortune that first attracted you? Oh, no, sir. Not at all. What happened was he paid me enough money not to have to go back to that place I was working at. And he took care of me and my son.

That must have felt good. That felt wonderful for him to love me and my son like that. He took care of me for many years. When did he begin broaching the subject of marriage with you? A week after I met him. I never was going to marry him until I got myself established. I wanted to make something of myself first before I got married so people wouldn't think I was this, you know, money person, you know.

And backfired anyway. You're saying being called a gold digger was your worst fear and you did everything the other way around to make sure that would not happen? Right. And instead, what happened? It happened. Top ten Anna Nicole Smith dating tips. Anna Nicole Smith, number three. To convincingly fake excitement during sex, just think about a stock portfolio. Never mind your heart. We can call an ambulance anytime. Tiger, what do you say? Yeah.

What was it like when you used to see Jay Leno and Letterman savage you? After my husband passed, it was really, really hard on me. I guess they felt that, you know, you had made it on your own, but you wanted to marry, I guess the term is sugar daddies. That wasn't true. I mean, here's the question. Some would say it wasn't a real marriage. You're telling me tonight, sitting across from me, it was a real marriage? Yes, most of the camera, please.

Okay. Let's give her a moment. The media thought this was to some degree a detective story, like is she a gold digger or is she not? And they were using those old kind of stereotypes to kind of, you know, rip the lid off this story. I could have married him a week after we met or two weeks after we met. Could have married him years before. And I didn't. I didn't. I went out and I made something of myself.

To actually see her in tears and break down and really feel what she was feeling was heartbreaking. It's been five years now since he's passed away. Are you able to get on with your life at all? Or it looks to me like you're still... It's hard. I mean, I went through a lot. You know, people, you know, when I gained a lot of weight, people thought I was just...

I'm partying and doing this and that. I mean, I'm having seizures. I'm having panic attacks. My husband just died and people think I don't care. They didn't for once consider that maybe this was an interesting notion of two people who they're making a transaction here are both lonely and find each other's company not only enjoyable, but have a modicum of love for one another. This is a pretty incredible story from beginning to end, isn't it?

It surely is. And it's your life. My life. My life is like a living soap opera. Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith came to court prepared. Armed with photos of her dead husband, she took the stand ready to fight. When Anna Nicole Smith walked into the trial, the odds were in her favor. There was so much money. Why not give her a little? And I don't want to call names. I'm not going to call Ms. Marshall a gold digger. I truly am not.

How you decide what she is and what she did and why should be based on evidence. So Pierce's lawyer is Rusty Hardin. He has a reputation for being a great trial lawyer. She will not be a poor little girl from Ahea, Texas when the trial's over. He would have been about 86 years old at that time. What attracted you to him? I felt really bad for him. I felt sorry for him. Are you the kind of person who takes in stray animals?

If I seen one, I probably would, yes, sir. Okay. He may be folksy, but he's also sharp as a tack, and he knows how to cross-examine a witness. The letter from Pierce Marshall to you about your bills, do you remember that letter? Yes, sir. And do you remember that he asked you to look at the date? And the date on that letter was February the 5th, as I recall, was it not?

- Can I see the letter again? - Yes, ma'am. Is it still up there? - I'm really bad with dates. - That's okay. - I don't want to get in trouble. - He wants to get her frustrated. So if she doesn't know dates, he's gonna ask her about dates over and over again. - Well, ma'am, that was in September, wasn't it?

I'm bad at dates. I'm guessing. Was it before or after your depositions in May of 1995? I don't know the dates, Rusty. Isn't it true that you don't even know when you last saw your husband before he died?

Yes, Rusty, I am bad with dates. The more he can draw out of her, the more he can get her frustrated, flummoxed. That only benefits him and his client. Are you telling me that the last time you saw your husband, you don't even remember how you got to Houston? Rusty, on a airplane. Her demeanor in the jury box was not the best. Have you been taking new acting lessons? No.

Screw you, Rusty. She was in over her head. I don't think she really understood how to present herself in a courtroom setting. By the end of the five days or so,

She'd gone from walking into the courtroom with the jury pretty much on her side to having lost them. The jury in Houston says former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith is not entitled to one red cent from her late husband's multimillion-dollar estate. There are years of appeals and litigation ahead.

And in the meantime, Anna still needs to keep working to pay the bills. So she makes a decision that could be the best or the worst career move she's ever made. Quit following me. She says yes to a reality show.

This is Brad Milkey from the ABC News podcast, Start Here. As hard as it is to imagine, family doctors used to frequently make house calls. If you were sick, they would pack up their little black doctor's bag and they would come to your home to examine you. Those days seem long gone, but one company is giving new meaning to the term house call, Teladoc Health.

You can choose a board-certified doctor that's right for you and get primary care from the comfort of your own home. Connect via phone or online with a board-certified doctor who will get to know you and provide whole-person care. Advice, prescriptions, even mental health support and referrals.

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This is Brad Milkey from the ABC News podcast Start Here. As hard as it is to imagine, family doctors used to frequently make house calls. If you were sick, they would pack up their little black doctor's bag and they would come to your home to examine you. Those days seem long gone, but one company is giving new meaning to the term house call

Teladoc Health. You can choose a board-certified doctor that's right for you and get primary care from the comfort of your own home. Connect via phone or online with a board-certified doctor who will get to know you and provide whole-person care. Advice, prescriptions, even mental health support and referrals.

Teladoc Health is not only convenient, it's affordable too, and it's covered by a surprising number of insurance plans. Download the app to get started today or go online to register or schedule a visit at teladochealth.com. That's teladoc, T-E-L-A-D-O-C, health.com. So there was two people. There was Vicki Lynn Marshall...

And there was Anna Nicole Smith. I, myself, very fortunate to get to have met and gotten to know Vicki Lynn, but at the same time, see Anna Nicole in action. So it didn't matter if you had a cell phone, a Polaroid camera, any kind of camera, you just yelled out her name, Anna Nicole. And she turned around, it was on the spot. You saw Anna Nicole just like that. Anna! Look this way! Anna!

Wow. In the minute that camera left, it was a whole other person. She was back to Vicky Lynn. And how she did it, I don't know. But whatever she was doing, it was making everybody watch. In 2001, Anna is offered a show that's pretty new to television. She says yes to a reality show. Two thumbs up. Reality shows are really pretty much fresh baked at this point.

People like the Osbournes, people like Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson were doing these shows, revivifying their stardom. So here comes Anna Nicole Smith into this brave new world of celebrity reality television. That's my son. Was that who she really was? The first season was quite a raving success. The luxurious hardware is coming up right now. Whatever she did, the crazier she got,

I think was her ticket. It was all part of her plan. The ratings started to plummet in the second season and the show was canceled before the third season really got underway. And then she kind of disappeared for a little bit. She was out of the spotlight. No one really knew where she was. She makes a comeback. She gets a contract with Trim Spa, a diet pill. She drops 69 pounds.

As she makes her way back on the scene, she meets the next man in her life, Larry Burkhead. The first time that I ever encountered Anna was in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky working as a photographer at the Kentucky Derby. So I talked to her and we exchanged this kiss and she's kind of getting handsy. She was really smitten over him and she told me that. She actually said, you know, she really liked this guy.

While their relationship is kept out of the public eye,

They developed an intimacy. Anna lived in the house with her son Daniel, her assistant Kim, and her attorney Howard K. Stern. He was kind of her publicist. He was kind of her agent. He was kind of the go-to person for Anna Nicole. In 2006, I met Larry and we sat down and talked about his life with Anna Nicole. Howard Stern. That was a problem. What kind of a problem? In my opinion, he's in love with Anna.

and she's never really returned that affection towards him. He created a lot of problems for us. He would fill her head with ideas, negative thoughts about me, to where she would actually sometimes be suspicious of things. Did you see evidence of drug use and alcohol use? Did she have a problem? I saw a lot of things I didn't like. Never once in my relationship with Anna did I see her do any kind of illegal drug.

Now I will say that she sometimes did not take the medication as she was prescribed the medication. But then she might say, "I skipped a day, so I might take two today." The night before the American Music Awards was the first time I ever saw Anna have a seizure. I was up with her all night. The next day, I just thought she should cancel it. Then everybody saw what happened next. I was honored to be on our next performer's new video.

And if I ever record an album, I want this guy to produce mine. Make me beautiful duet.

First thing you see in the headlines was Anna Nicole on drugs, Anna Nicole on this. I mean, that was what came out of that. Anna Nicole Smith's wild night at the American Music Awards. She's just getting over the crazy pox. What the hell are they putting in that trim spa? We hope she has some people around who care about her and take care of her. In the midst of all this strange and bad press comes the announcement that her longtime court battle for her elderly husband's estate...

is going to the Supreme Court. It was this surreal moment where Anna Nicole Smith, you know, the buxom playboy pinup girl, winds up in front of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This case concerns the claim of petitioner Vicki Lynn Marshall.

to share in the large fortune of her deceased husband, J. Howard Marshall. Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes the opinion, and the Supreme Court decides that Anna Nicole Smith can pursue her claims in the lower courts. There was no end to her court battles. She was in litigation continuously for 11 years. It was affecting her tremendously, ruining her mental health.

and her physical health. Do you remember this? Going up this street when you were a baby? When you were little? There was our old house. That was our family room window right there. That was my bedroom. They changed the gate. We both really wanted kids, and she always said that she wanted a little. And I remember we were laying in the bed, and she took my hand and she put it over on her stomach. She had this big glowing smile on. She brings out the pregnancy test, and she shows me that she's pregnant.

And I was being a little bit vocal about medications she was taking and making sure that everything was done right. He actually told me that she was pregnant and that Larry was the father. And I don't know how it got to where it got. She was told that he was only after her money, which is a laugh, and that he was a nobody. She started changing her tone. "You're not the father. Leave me alone." And then the next thing I know, she's gone. She's taken off to the Bahamas.

True tragedy. Anna Nicole Smith just gave birth to a baby girl, only to have her 20-year-old son Daniel die at her maternity bedside. It's an unimaginable turn of events. It was almost like another episode of a reality show. How does this happen? ♪♪

Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern have moved to the Bahamas for the last three months of her pregnancy. Meanwhile, her son Daniel is living in LA with Ray Martino and he's worried about what's going on with his mother. He was not favorable to what his mother was doing.

And he didn't like the people that were around her. Her friends say when they talk to her, she's rushed off the phone. So her and I would actually have communication when she was in the Bahamas. The conversations would happen in the middle of the night. And I don't know if she was doing it because she didn't want Howard to hear. September 7, 2006 is a huge day in the life of Anna Nicole Smith because that's the day that she gives birth to her daughter. And at her side is Howard K. Stern.

He is filming everything that's happening. Entertainment Tonight buys that video for an undisclosed sum. Anna Nicole Smith gives birth right here tonight before your very eyes. Come on, baby. Daniel flies down to meet up with his mom and baby sister in the hospital room where Anna is recovering from a C-section. On the night of September 9th, Daniel sleeps over in her hospital room in the Bahamas.

He's sitting up in a chair that's across from her hospital bed. Howard K. Stern's in the room, he's in another bed. At 6:20 in the morning, the nurse sees Daniel tending to his mother. Around 9:30 in the morning, Anna Nicole wakes up. She sees Daniel sleeping by her side. She tries to wake him up, but he doesn't respond. She tries again, but his skin is cold. She realizes he's not breathing.

So now she's terrified. She calls out to the medical staff and they rush in. But it's too late. Daniel's already dead. The body of Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, was found just three days after Anna Nicole gave birth to a baby girl in the Bahamas. Around 7 o'clock L.A. time, I get a call from Anna screaming and crying on the phone. Daniel's dead. As tragic as some of the events were, the cameras never stopped rolling.

It was all about the cash register ringing. Just days after Daniel's shocking death, In Touch magazine buys the photograph of Daniel meeting his baby sister for a reported $400,000. This was now both a family tragedy and a crime investigation. The chief inspector in the Bahamas coroner's office is calling the death of Adam Nicole Smith's son suspicious. How can you die in a hospital bed with nobody noticing?

Can that have happened when a few hours earlier you were fine? The cause of death of Daniel Smith still remains unclear. Finally, the official results come back and it showed that Daniel died of a lethal combination of Lexapro, Zoloft, and methadone. Daniel actually had a prescription for Lexapro and he was taking Zoloft because he was anxious about his flight. But nobody knows where he got the methadone. Anne has been on methadone for years. So did he take it secretly?

To this day, no one knows how he got that methadone. So in the wake of this nightmare, there still remains an open question as to who the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is. Howard K. Stern's name is on the birth certificate. So Anna Nicole and Howard decide to go to Larry King because if you're announcing who the father of your baby is, where else are you going to go? Anna and I have been

in a relationship and we love each other and it's been going on for a very long time. So you are the father? Yes, sir. I actually had to file a paternity suit. I was like, this is the last thing that I want to do. She's just lost her son. Daniel is buried in the Bahamas and his mother is devastated. For whatever reason, she blamed herself for Daniel dying. It broke her heart when he died.

And I think that was the final straw for Anna Nicole. To help her through her grief, Anna's friend, Dr. Christine Eroshevich, flies down to the Bahamas. She happens to be a psychiatrist who has the authority to write prescriptions. And she writes a lot of prescriptions. Dr. Eroshevich writes Anna a new prescription to help her sleep at night.

Anna's new drug of choice is chloral hydrate. But Anna, instead of taking the prescribed dose, she would sometimes just pick up the bottle and chug it. This new drug of choice was extremely dangerous, and Anna Nicole Smith didn't know how dangerous it was. The cause of Daniel Smith's death has not yet been determined. The Chief Inspector's Office is calling the death of Anna Nicole Smith's son suspicious.

They said when you lose a child, you always have one foot on earth and one foot in heaven. Anna Nicole is completely devastated by the loss of her son, Daniel. But there's kind of a bright spot. Bohemians have a very big heart, very friendly. So Anna had a whole support group.

And that worked out really well. She befriends a local Bahamian couple, Brigitte Nevin and King Eric Gibson. He's a local musician and celebrity. We would take people out fishing. Then one day, a guy came and said, "Why don't you take Anna Nicole fishing?" And so that's how I met Anna Nicole.

And so from then on, then she decided to call King Eric "Daddy" and called me "Mommy," and then they were just part of the family. I think she kind of looked at Birgitta kind of like a motherly type figure because she was calming and she was spiritual. She was attracted to families. Where there was a family, she-- 'cause she didn't have that. Anna adores this couple, and she loves being on the open sea far away from the paparazzi.

She just loved to be on the boat. She was totally different. She was just like being free. She stops talking about wanting to die and starts thinking about the future. She actually books a modeling gig and looks into buying a boat. Howard finds a boat for them to buy in Florida, so he and Anna go to pick it up. Their friends Bridget and King Eric will help them drive it back to the Bahamas.

So Anna Nicole Smith leaves the Bahamas with her whole entourage: Howard K. Stern, her bodyguard, and Dr. Arosevich. They leave the baby with the nanny. Before she leaves the Bahamas, Anna gets a shot of HGH and B12 on her left side. She's been doing this for a while to maintain her weight. On the plane, her left side starts to hurt. By the time she gets to the hotel, she's starting to feel really sick.

She has a fever of 105. 105 fever for an adult is deadly. Everyone in the entourage, they're all telling her she should go to the hospital. And Anna says no, she's not going to the hospital. And here's the thing, they actually listened to her. The fact that someone didn't take her to the hospital was really no surprise to me because she was scared the press would find out she was there. And then it would turn into some big headline that she didn't want any of that.

Over the next three days, Anna is pretty sick. She's not eating, she's sleeping a lot. And the people with her are starting to notice some strange smell coming from her. It showed me that, you know, that the side of her body was infected. It looked infected. It was different colors and it was swollen. On the third day, Howard finds her in a confused state sitting in the empty bathtub.

That night, Dr. Arishevich tells Anna she's got to get back to L.A., but Anna doesn't want her to go. He was begging her to stay. She was saying that she didn't know she could make it. The morning of February 8th, Anna Nicole is very weak. At around noon, Howard K. Stern decides he's going to keep his appointment to see the boat, even though Anna's too sick to go with him. Taz and Brigitte stays with her.

After about an hour, Taz goes in where Anna Nicole is. She calls her husband Big Mo, Anna's bodyguard. Well Brigitte hears this conversation and she's excited. She thinks her friend is finally awake and they can visit. I walked over and I realized there was something wrong with Anna. She looked like she was sleeping but I realized that she wasn't breathing. There was no chest movement and then it all exploded.

So Bridget tells Taz to call 911. What happens next is unbelievable. Taz doesn't call 911. She calls Moe. Moe doesn't call 911. He calls Howard. And Howard doesn't call 911. 38 minutes go by before anyone calls 911. All the while, Taz is desperately trying to resuscitate Anna. Finally, Moe arrives at the hotel. And once he gets there, he calls 911.

We arrived on scene and the paramedics went to work on the subject and I tried to find out what exactly happened prior to her being found unconscious and then Howard shows up.

And Howard went into just a total frenzy. He was pacing. He told me he was calling the doctor in California. Howard is calling Dr. Arosevich, who confirms that Anna was on 10 different medications, all of which Arosevich prescribed. And some were not written in Anna's name. Meanwhile, the paramedics are still working on Anna.

I just started screaming her name. I asked her, I said, "Baby girl, if you got anything in you, please come back. Danny Lynn needs you." I said, "Forget it. I need you. We all need you." And I could feel her energy like giving me a hug. And then she was gone, and I knew she wouldn't be back. After we had done everything we could there, we transported her to Memorial Regional Hospital.

When the ambulance gets to Memorial Regional Hospital, there is a full-on media blitz, cameras rolling everywhere. We are waiting to hear some word during a press conference. We're told that press conference might not happen. It was quite a scene. My guys were being filmed as they were taking the subject out of the rescue truck and wheeling her into the emergency room. At 2:49 this afternoon,

We were advised by hospital personnel that Anna Nicole Smith had died. Anna Nicole Smith is pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m. It's just confirmed that Anna Nicole Smith has died. She collapsed at a Florida hotel. She was 39 years old. It takes months before the police investigation is finished. The question of why no one called 911 sooner is never fully answered. And when the autopsy is released, it is shocking.

February 2007, all kinds of news is being made. Today in Iraq, another chopper down. We're going to go to that rampage in an upscale shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. And even with all that going on, so many people are talking about Anna Nicole Smith. All we really know about Anna Nicole's death at this point is that she died alone. I was covering Anna Nicole Smith for ABC News.

And it was a zoo. She was unconscious, unresponsive, according to... Certainly all the tabloids, the tabloid TV shows, the news magazines were on top of it. The Anna Nicole Smith story continues. Once again, Jim Avala. The place where Anna Nicole Smith's candle would finally burn out. Every channel, no matter what channel I turned, no matter where I went to, it was on the news. I looked at the TV. I think that's when it hit me.

The person that was on the TV is the person that was in all the photographs. The autopsy results point to an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. She had nine drugs in her system at therapeutic levels. She also had a stomach bug and an abscess from where she got the shot of B12 and HGH.

It also showed a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. That's an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid. The symptoms are weight gain, fatigue, and depression. All of the things that she'd been struggling with all her life had a diagnosis, but she'd never received it in life.

Now it is a battle over her body. There's basically a fight about Anna Nicole and where to bury her. Her mother, Virgie, wants her buried in Texas, and Howard K. Stern wants her buried in the Bahamas. The key players face off in court for the first time. There are a staggering 14 attorneys present. The court proceedings about where she should be buried are televised. No circus here, my friend. There's no circus here. Don't get slippery with me.

Don't get cute. The court decides that Anna's gonna be buried next to her son in the Bahamas. I want them to be together. I have never seen a judge cry on the stand like that. The battle over Anna Nicole Smith's final resting place is finally over, clearing the way for her funeral. It was emotional. I tried to put the paternity stuff aside. Meanwhile, there's still a battle going on over who the father is of Anna Nicole's baby.

The estate of Howard Marshall is still pending. If that is successful, this child is going to get tens of millions of dollars. And who that father is, is now of a whole lot greater importance and a lot more potential payoff. There are the final four who claim to be Danny Lynn's daddy. There's Howard K. Stern. There's Larry Burkhead.

There's the ex-boyfriend, Mark Haddon, who claimed he gave Anna frozen sperm. And lastly, there is Prince Frederick von Anholt, perhaps most famous for being the fourth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor. There are lots of people who could be the father. Could you be the father? I don't know. I mean, you know, sometimes I'm a bad boy, yeah. But only DNA will tell.

There hasn't been a paternity test because Howard and the baby are in the Bahamas. And in the Bahamas, Howard is the father, period. Larry's lawyer does a bunch of legal maneuvers and eventually cracks the Bahamas system. But before Howard is forced to do anything, he relents and gets a sample of the baby's DNA. I'm in this Bahamas courtroom. I'm sitting there, Howard K. Stearns on one side, I'm on the other side. They open the envelope and they said that Larry Burkhead is the father.

I remember putting my head down in my hands and for like one moment I caught myself looking over my shoulder thinking I was turning to Anna like she was gonna be right there. I hate to be the one that told you this but I told you so. I got to see the baby later the day after the court. I got to pick her up and

She smiled at me and she was like laughing. The person who on the other end of the spectrum of this whole fight was Howard K. Stern and here he is in the video and he's showing me like the routine of Danny Lim. I had to learn how to feed her, how to change her, all these different things, you know. And to this day, Howard has been supportive.

Anna leaves behind an estate worth almost $700,000, which Danny Lynn will get. Howard K. Stern is the executor. This being Anna Nicole Smith, the turmoil of her life goes on long after her death. In 2009, Howard K. Stern and Dr. Aroshevich were charged and convicted of two counts of conspiracy to obtain drugs for Anna Nicole Smith under false names.

In 2011, a judge found that they were only trying to protect Anna's privacy and dismissed the two convictions against Stern. What happened today was vindication for both me and for Anna. As for Dr. Arosevich, the judge dismissed one of the charges against her and reduced the other to a misdemeanor for obtaining one Vicodin prescription under a false name. You get to re-experience your freedom. It's like being reborn. ♪♪

I've always been looking forward to the day where I can actually share some things with her about her mom. Daylon has no idea that she's gonna see these things. All this is a surprise. So right in here, you ready to see it?

This is Brad Milkey from the ABC News podcast Start Here. As hard as it is to imagine, family doctors used to frequently make house calls. If you were sick, they would pack up their little black doctor's bag and they would come to your home to examine you. Those days seem long gone, but one company is giving new meaning to the term house call, Teladoc Health.

You can choose a board-certified doctor that's right for you and get primary care from the comfort of your own home. Connect via phone or online with a board-certified doctor who will get to know you and provide whole-person care. Advice, prescriptions, even mental health support and referrals.

Teladoc Health is not only convenient, it's affordable too, and it's covered by a surprising number of insurance plans. Download the app to get started today or go online to register or schedule a visit at teladochealth.com. That's teladoc, T-E-L-A-D-O-C, health.com.

This is Brad Milkey from the ABC News podcast, Start Here. As hard as it is to imagine, family doctors used to frequently make house calls. If you were sick, they would pack up their little black doctor's bag and they would come to your home to examine you. Those days seem long gone, but one company is giving new meaning to the term house call, Teladoc Health.

You can choose a board-certified doctor that's right for you and get primary care from the comfort of your own home. Connect via phone or online with a board-certified doctor who will get to know you and provide whole-person care. Advice, prescriptions, even mental health support and referrals.

Teladoc Health is not only convenient, it's affordable too, and it's covered by a surprising number of insurance plans. Download the app to get started today or go online to register or schedule a visit at teladochealth.com. That's teladoc, T-E-L-A-D-O-C, health.com. I haven't been to the storage in years, to be honest.

A lot of stuff was put in here and there's so many things like from different areas of Anna's life and her career. One of the coats that J. Howard Marshall bought Anna, Daniel's trophies. When I look at all this stuff, it's hard to go through it. How she lived her dream and the things that she accomplished are all, you know, encompassed in this storage unit right here. Anna was a really beautiful person, good heart.

Anna understood how to live life with a free spirit that a lot of people didn't understand. I was inspired to write a song about Anna Nicole Smith. ♪ Anna Nicole, hope that where you are ♪

She was really that very tragic, mythological blonde. She remains at the center a tragic figure. There are very, very few people coming to her defense. There's nobody who says, "Stop treating that woman that way. Stop talking about that woman that way." Thirteen years that she's been gone, 2007, and we're still talking about this. And it still hurts the same way like it was yesterday.

If I had the opportunity to go back in time, I would tell her I love her. Every single thing I touch has a story to it. And it's tough. This is, you know, what's left of Anna. Daylon has no idea that she's going to see these things. All this is a surprise. There's no rhyme or reason to my packing. She has a big heart like her mom had, and I think that she could appreciate these things.

Do you know what this even is? This is stuff that I've had for you for like a long time. Wanna see it? Alright, okay cool. This. There you are with your mommy. When you talk about Anna Nicole, there were a lot of happy moments for her. There was a lot of highs before there was a lot of lows.

Let's see, this was a Blondie t-shirt. We went on a date. Who's that cool guy? Please stop. I already told you before, please stop. She thought I was cool. Anna should be remembered as this larger than life figure that was really a caring, giving person, a beautiful lady who loved her fans and loved her family.

That is a book that your mom had. She swore no one ever could touch that. Not even I could touch that. That is pictures of your ultrasound. Anna got to live her dream. She wanted to be a star. She wanted to be a mother. And Danny Lynn is her legacy. That's what lives on from Anna.

We should note that Danny Lynn graduated from high school this past spring and plans to start college majoring in forensics this coming fall. And after all those years, Anna Nicole's estate was awarded nothing from the courts. That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Deborah Roberts. And I'm David Muir from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.

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