Had she been talking "babies"? Would that spoil Howard's plan for control of Danny's funds?
Playboy
Late in 1991 Playboy’s Photography Department received a package from Texas: photos of a girl named Vickie Lynn Smith. She wanted to be a Playmate. The magazine’s photographers and editors, who get about 1,000 such submissions a year, were impressed enough to fly her to Los Angeles for a test shoot.
ARNY FREYTAG, Playboy Senior Contributing Photographer: I rejected her Playmate test. She had a great face, but she was overweight. I said she should lose a few pounds and maybe we’d test her again.
MARILYN GRABOWSKI, Playboy West Coast Photo Editor: And I said, “No way! She’s so pretty.” You couldn’t help being mesmerized.
FREYTAG: Marilyn said, “This girl has got to be a Playmate.”
GRABOWSKI: She was still Vickie then. She seemed shy, a sweet girl who wasn’t comfortable posing for nude photos. The moment we stopped snapping pictures, she’d grab a robe and cover up. As it turned out, she’d been a stripper back in Texas. So was that shyness a persona of hers? Was she faking it?
ALEXIS VOGEL, makeup artist: The photographers didn’t want to deal with her. They had beautiful girls going through there every day for Playmate tests, and this one was heavy. It would be hard work to drape her just right, hide the weight and get the perfect angle.
GRABOWSKI: She weighed 160 pounds. A tall girl, but still——
VOGEL: Still she had that incredible face. And being an exotic dancer helped her. She could really turn it on when she wanted to.
GARY COLE, Playboy Photography Director: Vickie was pretty unpolished. I met her at our Santa Monica studio, and the first thing she said was “I’m glad to be anywhere that isn’t Texas.” When we saw her pictures, we saw something special. It’s hard to say what makes a person photogenic. The stock answer is great bone structure, good skin, big eyes. She had all that plus something undefinable, a sort of camera charisma you can’t teach. As I was picking pictures for this month’s tribute to her, I went through a stack of black-and-white contact sheets, 36 exposures each, and couldn’t find one bad expression. She never blinked. She never looked goofy like the rest of us. That made it easy to edit her photos, because they all looked good. But at the same time it made it very hard to edit her photos, because you couldn’t run them all.
After an attention-grabbing debut as cover girl of the March 1992 Playboy, she made the Centerfold two months later. Signing her Data Sheet as Vickie Smith and claiming to weigh 140 pounds, Miss May listed a bold ambition: “I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.”
GRABOWSKI: She felt a great affinity for Marilyn, the first Playboy Centerfold. While we were shooting she would put on Marilyn’s music to get in the mood, and she’d sing along. She had a high little voice like Marilyn’s but with a Texas twang.
HUGH M. HEFNER, Playboy Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Of course, Marilyn Monroe was the sex star of our times. The key to her iconic power was sexuality plus vulnerability.
BILL WHITE, Manager, Playboy Studio West: Marilyn Monroe didn’t make many records. We would rotate two CDs, playing an endless loop of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” “Some Like It Hot” and a few others — show tunes that would drive you crazy after a few hours.
Anna was a wild one, five-foot-11 and physically strong. She’d wrestle with photo assistants. The photographer would take Polaroids, and we’d yank them from the camera and wait for them to develop. The photographer doesn’t want the model seeing the Polaroids before he does, but Anna would get you in a headlock and rip them right out of your hand. She’d say, “Hey, I look good!”
ELIZABETH NORRIS, former Playboy Director of Public Relations: We didn’t do a publicity tour when she was Miss May — frankly because she sounded silly. She talked like a baby. And I think she resented not getting that publicity tour. She was moody, very needy, expecting first-class treatment all the time.
But even without a publicity tour, Miss May was a hit. Soon she had a new title and a new name.
REG POTTERTON, Playboy writer: By then she was Anna Nicole, Playmate of the Year 1993. I was sent to interview her at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. I had to wake her up to do it — I arrived at noon. While I waited, I counted the room-service plates piled outside her room: seven of them. This was a hungry woman.
PETER MOORE, editor, Men’s Health: I was at Playboy then. I had just started editing Playmate stories and was fired up: “I’m going to bring real journalism to the girl copy!” I loved Reg’s bit about room-service plates. It said this girl had prodigious appetites — for food, sex, life. But when the magazine came out, she was furious. She thought we’d made her sound like some kind of Texas food compactor. I instantly called a florist and sent two dozen red roses with a note: “Anna Nicole, we didn’t mean anything bad. I completely appreciate all you do for Playboy.” Crisis averted. She liked the roses, and after that I was more careful.
NORRIS: Her Playmate of the Year tour was first-class all the way. She loved riding in limos and seeing all the cameras waiting for her. At her PMOY party in New York I said, “You should sit on the piano.” Of course she rolled around on the piano, and that went over very well with the press.
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/remembering-anna-nicole-smith/anna-nicole-smith-1.html
LA gave her the half mil in Sept 2000
July 2001 was when Wood took away her money award
In Sept. 2000, LA bankruptcy judge awarded Anna $449,754,134 from husband’s estate. But in July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood vacated that award and ordered her to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to stepson E. Pierce Marshall’s team.
Rita’s book,
Harding at 74 years old was called by Daniel in aug.,Daniel kept looking out the window,he was worried someone would follow him.Daniel who is dead told Jack Harding about a dream.His mom was in a coffin.he asked Harding to investigate what howard and k stern were doing to his mom and people around her.Per Rita’s book.
Mar 3rd, '00 - It appears that Anna and VA did keep in touch. *In a letter written to her mother on March 3, 2000, Vickie said, * I want to get pregnant and have another baby before Daniel leaves me.* rita Cosby book, Pg 167
According to Hatten, he and Anna dated from 2000 to 2001/early 2002
http://news.softpedia.com/news/SOFTPEDIA-EXCLUSIVE-Meet-The-Potential-Father-of-Anna-Nicole-Smith-039-s-Child-50281.shtml
In letters sent exclusively to us, Mark says that the love affair he had with Anna Nicole Smith was greatly underestimated in the media at the time of his arrest, mainly because of Howard K. Stern's 'evil plan'. Says Mark: 'I first met Anna Nicole Smith in early January 2000, when my baby sister, Jackie Hatten, put me on the phone with Anna Nicole, for a blind date! Our relationship lasted a little over two years and we had 2 miscarriages in that time period'. He also claims that they planned to marry and start a family but Stern's schemes demolished Anna's confidence and, ultimately, hope ...
Mar 25th, '02 - mark Hatten arrested for assaulting ANS neighbor.