She was a small-town girl, a Playboy pinup, a gold digger and a reality TV star. She lived her dream, then died in a lonely hotel room. The rapid rise and tawdry fall of an American oddity. Anna nicole Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, said she wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. She became instead a kind of bombshell circus freak, a star in the lewd carnival of American pop culture.
展开▼