<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Your love is alive still to this day," <keyword id="13140518" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="larry-birkhead" source="Orion">Larry Birkhead</keyword> wrote on Instagram to <keyword id="13140517" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-nicole-smith" source="Orion">Anna Nicole Smith</keyword>.</li><li>Smith died on February 8, 2007 in Florida. </li></ul><p>Photographer Larry Birkhead shared a <keyword id="12338520" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tribute" source="Orion">tribute</keyword> to <a href="https://www.insider.com/secrets-of-playboy-hugh-hefner-allegations-former-employees-letter-2022-2">late model and reality TV</a> star Anna Nicole Smith on Tuesday to mark the 15th anniversary of her <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death" source="Orion">death</keyword>.</p><p>"Today, I remember your heart, your soul and your beauty, both inside and out," he wrote in a post addressed to Smith <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CZuGooPubc_/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=eb208ce6-ff64-43db-a714-f7c3e412acfc">on Instagram</a>. "Your love is alive still to this day, in the form of a truly one of a kind teenager with her Mom's smile, beauty, and courage." </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CZuGooPubc_" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Larry Birkhead (@larryanddannielynn)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></p></div></blockquote><p>Smith was a <a href="https://www.insider.com/playboy-mansion-hugh-hefner-quaaludes-drugs-secrets-of-playboy-2021-12">former Playboy model</a> who rose to fame in part because of a reality TV show that chronicled her life, "The Anna Nicole Show," which aired for three seasons on E! from 2002 to 2004.</p><p>Smith died at age 39 on February 8, 2007, after being found unresponsive in a hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino in Hollywood, Florida, while on vacation with her then-partner, lawyer Howard K. Stern, <a href="https://people.com/parents/larry-birkhead-remembers-anna-nicole-smith-15-years-after-her-death-your-love-is-still-alive/">People reported</a>.</p><p>Her cause of death was later reported as "<a href="https://www.insider.com/us-overdose-deaths-record-93000-in-pandemic-2021-7">an accidental overdose</a> with no other criminal element present," Seminole Police Department Chief Charlie Tiger said at a press conference at the time, <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/anna-nicole-smith-died-from-accidental-overdose/">according to People</a>. Broward County medical examiner Dr. Joshua Perper said that there was evidence of "methadone, anti-anxiety and weight-reducing drugs and, possibly, vitamins" along with other substances in her system at the time. </p><p>Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, was only five months old when her mother died. Weeks after Dannielynn's birth, a legal disagreement arose between Stern and Birkhead over the child's paternity, with each man claiming they were Dannielynn's father, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-anna-nicole-smith-28-02-2007/">per CBS News</a>. On April 10, 2007, Birkhead made a public statement saying that <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/dna-test-birkhead-is-dannielynns-father/">a DNA test had proved he was Dannielynn's father</a>. He's had custody of his daughter since then.</p><div type="image" title="Dannielynn Birkhead and her father Larry Birkhead in 2019." height="2622" width="3496" msid="89465218" hostid="261"></div><p>While promoting the episode of docuseries "Hopelessly in Love" about their relationship on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr6V-3KxmM&amp;ab_channel=GoodMorningAmerica">"Good Morning America" in 2020</a>, Birkhead said that while most people thought he won the "DNA lottery" and conceived Dannielynn with Smith after a "one-night stand," he and Smith were actually in a two-year "long-term relationship" before her death.</p><p>He recalled on "Good Morning America" that "sparks flew" and "dishes flew" between them, hinting that they often got into heated arguments. "It was crazy," he said.</p><p>"We didn't have a relationship where we did red carpets and things like that. I was always behind the scenes," he said on GMA.</p><p>"She was truly one of a kind. She struggled for love and acceptance," Birkhead's Tuesday Instagram post about his former partner said, in part. "Just when she found a little piece of one or the other, life seemed to sabotage."</p><p>A <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> called "Hurricanna," detailing how Smith's therapist Khristine tried to save her life during "a 36-hour odyssey in which she unknowingly delivers the fatal blow," is in the works, with Holly Hunter in talks to play the therapist, <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/02/anna-nicole-smith-movie-hurricana-efm-1234927679/">Deadline reported on Monday.</a></p>

Anna Nicole Smith's ex Larry Birkhead honors her in an emotional tribute 15 years after her death

Where is Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead today? Here's everything we know about the now 16-year-old who's the spitting image of her mom.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dannielynn and Larry Birkhead attended a Duran Duran concert for Father's Day. </li><li>The teenager has been "schooled" in good music since she was a baby, her dad said on Instagram. </li></ul><p>According to her dad Larry Birkhead, <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-is-anna-nicole-smith-daughter-dannielynn-birkhead-now-2023-5">Anna Nicole Smith's 16-year-old daughter</a> Dannielynn got "schooled" on good music at a Duran Duran concert on Father's Day. </p><p>"Having a great Father's Day with Dannielynn at the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/duranduran/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@duranduran</a> concert. I've been trying to school her on good music way back since she was a baby," the photographer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtplMZJOrKg/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in an Instagram post</a> featuring a picture of him and his daughter on Sunday. </p><p>Birkhead joked that they arrived early to the show because "I'm old." He also included a throwback photo of the duo sharing a pair of headphones when Dannielynn was younger. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtplMZJOrKg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtplMZJOrKg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtplMZJOrKg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Larry Birkhead (@larryanddannielynn)</a></p></div></blockquote> <p>The Duran Duran concert isn't the Guess model's first brush with '80s pop royalty.</p><p>Dannielynn <a href="https://www.insider.com/janet-jacksons-style-evolution-throughout-her-career-photos-2022-1">also met Janet Jackson</a> at the 2022 Barnstable Brown Kentucky Derby Eve Gala while she was wearing the same outfit that Jackson wore to <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1330077/how-anna-nicole-smiths-daughter-dannielynn-birkhead-honored-janet-jackson-at-the-kentucky-derby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the gala in 2003, E! News reported</a>. Birklead said he bought it for his daughter during a charity auction. </p><p>The teenager wore <a href="https://www.insider.com/biggest-best-hats-kentucky-derby-photos-2023-5">the outfit to the Derby</a> event to honor the "Rhythm Nation" singer, who performed in 2022 and 2003, the night that Birkhead first met Smith. He attends the event every year with Danielynn to honor his former lover. </p><div type="image" title="Dannielynn Birkhead and Anna Nicole Smith." height="1500" width="2000" msid="101144072" hostid="261" sizebytes="168192"></div><p>Smith died in February 2007, months after Dannielynn's birth, due to an <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-life-death-2023-5#smith-died-months-after-her-son-at-the-age-of-39-18">accidental drug overdose</a>. </p><p>Birkhead has worked to give Dannielynn glimpses into his mom's life and legacy. In 2012, when she was six years old, Dannielynn did a modeling campaign for Guess, the same company that helped launch Smith to stardom in the early '90s. </p><p>"Dannielynn has always looked up to her mom's image and … I think that this is kind of Dannielynn's way of paying tribute to her mom in her own special way," Birkhead said of his daughter's campaign in an interview with "Good Morning America," per <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/11/anna-nicole-smiths-daughters-modeling-tribute-to-mom" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">ABC News</a>.</p>

Anna Nicole Smith's daughter got schooled on 'good music' by dad Larry Birkhead on Father's Day

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Larry Birkhead posted about 16-year-old Dannielynn, his daughter with the late Anna Nicole Smith.</li><li>Larry said Dannielynn just completed the 11th grade and made honor roll.</li></ul><p>Anna Nicole Smith's daughter <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-is-anna-nicole-smith-daughter-dannielynn-birkhead-now-2023-5">Dannielynn Birkhead</a> will be entering her senior year of high school in just a few months, and the 16-year-old's dad couldn't be prouder.</p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/larry-birkhead-anna-nicole-smith-tribute-15-years-after-death-2022-2">Larry Birkhead</a> shared <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9X7XLuURN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a sweet Instagram post</a> on Thursday celebrating Dannielynn's scholastic achievements. Two of the three photos in the post showed the teen laughing while looking at her phone in the back seat of a car while Larry was driving — according to Larry's caption, he was "trying to have a serious conversation" with his daughter while she was trolling him with "the worst pics" of him she's taken on her cell phone — and the third showed her honor roll certificates.</p><p>In the caption, Larry noted that Dannielynn had just finished 11th grade and applauded her for staying on the honor roll during "challenging times" for their family.</p><p>"Dannielynn finished 11th grade and maintained honor roll through some challenging times we had taking care of my Mom before she passed away. I am so proud!" Larry wrote in his caption. "Now, on to Summer break and then 12th grade."</p><p>He also joked about Dannielynn's love of taking terrible pictures of him: "In the meantime, hopefully she can take some better pictures of me.  I think I am going to give her a photography class over the Summer."</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9X7XLuURN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9X7XLuURN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs9X7XLuURN/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Larry Birkhead (@larryanddannielynn)</a></p></div></blockquote> <p>Larry has shared glimpses of his and Dannielynn's life over the years on social media and in interviews. The two attend the Kentucky Derby, where <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-life-death-2023-5">Larry has said he first met Smith</a>, every year, and at the 2023 event in May <a href="https://people.com/parents/larry-birkhead-tells-people-5-things-no-one-knows-daughter-dannielynn-birkhead-exclusive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he told People</a> that Dannielynn is starting to look at colleges. That's making him a little nervous.</p><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-16">"It's one of those things where she's just now dipping her toe into getting stuff, and people are mailing her things," said Larry, who noted that his daughter is showing an interest in forensics as a potential career path. "And every time I get something in the mail for college, I don't know if I really want to give her this because she might take them up on this offer and go somewhere to college."</p><p>He added: "It's one of those things that all parents go through. They don't want their kids to go off, but they know they have to."</p><p>Ahead of the premiere of <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-larry-birkhead-dannielynn-father-slams-netflix-doc-2023-5">Netflix's Anna Nicole Smith documentary</a>, released in May, Larry wiped his Instagram account and spoke out against the project he called a "poorly reviewed cesspool." He told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/anna-nicole-smiths-ex-larry-birkhead-slams-new-netflix-documentary-about-late-model-204697" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Entertainment Tonight</a> that he and Dannielynn, who was only five months old when <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-death-tragic-circumstances-explained-2023-5">her mom died in 2007</a>, "declined to participate" in "You Don't Know Me" because, according to Larry, "some people were allowed to invent things and rewrite history" in the documentary.</p><p>He added: "I am looking forward to a true definitive Anna Nicole project where her truth can be heard from her own perspective and by those that truly knew her the best and not just another 'wash, rinse and repeat' Anna Nicole project. Anna truly deserved better and that day will come."</p>

Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is about to enter her senior year of high school, and dad Larry Birkhead is 'so proud' of her for making honor roll

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter has criticized a new film about the late model's life.</li><li>"I did not want my daughter in a overwhelmingly poorly reviewed cesspool of a project," he told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/anna-nicole-smiths-ex-larry-birkhead-slams-new-netflix-documentary-about-late-model-204697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ET</a>.</li></ul><p>Larry Birkhead, the father of <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-life-death-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Nicole Smith's</a> daughter, has explained why he and his daughter chose not to appear in the new documentary, "<a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-father-sexual-assault-claim-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me.</a>"</p><p>According to Netflix's description, the documentary offers a "humanizing examination of the life, death, and secrets" of the Playboy model and reality television star who <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-death-tragic-circumstances-explained-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tragically died</a> from an accidental drug overdose<strong> </strong>at the age of 39 in 2007.</p><p>However, Birkhead strongly disagrees.</p><p>"We declined to participate as I did not want my daughter in a overwhelmingly poorly reviewed cesspool of a project about her Mother, where some people were allowed to invent things and rewrite history," he told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/anna-nicole-smiths-ex-larry-birkhead-slams-new-netflix-documentary-about-late-model-204697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entertainment Tonight</a> on behalf of himself and 16-year-old Dannielynn. </p><p>He added that he is "looking forward to a true definitive Anna Nicole project where her truth can be heard from her own perspective and by those that truly knew her the best."</p><div type="image" title="Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead and Larry Birkhead attend the 148th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 07, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky." height="5110" width="6813" msid="100364992" hostid="261" sizebytes="2475824"></div><p>He called the two-hour documentary, which was directed by BAFTA-nominated documentarian Ursula Macfarlane, "another 'wash, rinse, and repeat' Anna Nicole project."</p><p>"Anna truly deserved better and that day will come," he added.</p><p>Birkhead and Macfarlane did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.</p><p>Birkhead, a former entertainment photographer, told the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12052317/Anna-Nicole-Smiths-ex-Larry-Birkhead-reveals-never-shared-details-relationship.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met Smith in 2003</a> at the Kentucky Derby — an event that Birkhead and his daughter continue to attend to this day. </p><div type="image" title="Anna Nicole Smith." height="2112" width="2816" msid="100364993" hostid="261" sizebytes="114330"></div><p>The exact nature of Smith and Birkhead's relationship, and how long it lasted, has always been unclear, but <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12052317/Anna-Nicole-Smiths-ex-Larry-Birkhead-reveals-never-shared-details-relationship.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birkhead recently told the Daily Mail</a> that several months after they met again at the Derby in 2004, Smith asked Birkhead to move in with her in her Los Angeles home to be her "personal photographer." According to Birkhead, the two then lived together "for two-and-a-half years," at which point Smith became pregnant.</p><p>"We were living together and doing baby planning. We were picking out names for our baby," Birkhead told the Daily Mail. "Despite what anyone says, Anna knew I was the father," he added.</p><p>But when Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September 2006, she publicly claimed that the child's father was Howard K. Stern, her longtime attorney</p><p>Mitchell Olsen, one of the documentary's participants, claimed that Smith chose to give birth to her daughter in the Bahamas because of one of the Caribbean country's "interesting legalities" which means that those named and signed on birth certificates are legally considered a child's parents.</p><p>As such, following Smith's sudden death in February 2007, Stern assumed custody of Dannielynn, kicking off a paternity battle between Stern and Birkhead. However, after a <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/dna-test-birkhead-is-dannielynns-father/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DNA test took place,</a> it was determined that Birkhead was Dannielynn's biological father and he was granted sole custody.</p><p>However, Stern is still a part of Dannielynn's life. As Birkhead told <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/965975/rollercoasters-snapchat-and-conversations-about-anna-nicoie-inside-dannielynn-birkhead-s-surprisingly-normal-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">E! News</a> earlier this month, Stern "gives advice and reaches out" to them. "Some people may think it's weird, but he's a good friend and has been real supportive," Birkhead told E! News.</p>

The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter slams new Netflix doc about Smith, calling it a 'poorly reviewed cesspool' and saying he declined to participate

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Anna Nicole Smith died from an accidental drug overdose in a hotel room at the age of 39 in 2007.</li><li>Her death came less than five months after her son Daniel, 20, died and her daughter was born.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-life-death-2023-5">Anna Nicole Smith</a> rose to prominence in the 1990s as a <a href="https://www.insider.com/difference-between-playboy-bunny-playmate-hostess-club-centerfold-2018-12">Playboy Playmate</a> and became a regular fixture of the tabloids thanks to her party girl persona and eyebrow-raising marriage at the age of 26 to 89-year-old Houston oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. </p><p>The inheritance lawsuit that followed Marshall's death in 1995, 14 months after they tied the knot, as well as her early 2000s reality show then furthered her celebrity, making her both a household name and a <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmarshall/the-american-dream-created-anna-nicole-smith-and-then-it-kil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national laughing stock.</a></p><p>As a <a href="https://www.insider.com/celebrity-documentaries-stream-watch-online">new Netflix documentary</a>, "<a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-nicole-smith-father-sexual-assault-claim-2023-5">Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me</a>," attempts to shed new light on Smith's life and legacy, here's everything you need to know about the model's tragic death.</p><div type="image" title="A still from Netflix's &quot;Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me.&quot;" height="1989" width="2652" msid="100361458" hostid="261" sizebytes="131906"></div><h2><strong>Smith had a history of substance abuse going back to the early 1990s</strong></h2><p>In <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81380540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"You Don't Know Me,"</a> Smith's friend and supposed former lover Missy Byrum claimed that Smith's addiction to prescription drugs started after she got breast augmentation surgery when she was in her early twenties.</p><p>"Valium, Xanax, Lortabs, Vicodin, and Klonopin," said Byrum. "From that time on she was always taking them. There was nothing she could do to stop it."</p><p>Byrum claimed that, by the early 1990s, Smith was a "full-blown drug addict" and the documentary showed that in 1994, Smith had survived an accidental overdose in a Hollywood hotel room.</p><h2><strong>The Playboy model and actor died in a hotel room in Florida</strong></h2><p>Smith was found in an unresponsive state on February 8, 2007, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/us/27autopsy.html#:~:text=anti%2Danxiety%20medicines.-,Dr.,news%20conference%20in%20Dania%20Beach." target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times.</a> </p><p>A private nurse, who an episode of "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-nNKvqa9Cw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Final 24</a>" identified as the wife of Smith's bodyguard, made several resuscitation attempts before paramedics made it to the scene. However, Smith was pronounced dead by the time she was taken to the hospital that same afternoon.</p><p>An investigation into Smith's death, led by Broward County Medical Examiner and forensic pathologist Joshua Perper concluded that the model and actress died of "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/us/27autopsy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">combined drug intoxication</a>."</p><div type="image" title="Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007 from an accidental drug overdose." height="2106" width="2808" msid="100361460" hostid="261" sizebytes="279006"></div><p>The <a href="http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/smith,%20anna%20nicole_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autopsy report</a> said that the primary drug in her system was chloral hydrate, which is a particularly potent sedative that also <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/marilyn-monroe-and-the-prescription-drugs-that-killed-her#:~:text=To%20counteract%20her%20insomnia%2C%20she,with%20a%20tumbler%20of%20Champagne." target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributed to the death</a> of her idol <a href="https://www.insider.com/rare-photos-marilyn-monroe-2019-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marilyn Monroe</a>. </p><p>The coroner ruled out suicide as a potential cause of death, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/us/27autopsy.html#:~:text=anti%2Danxiety%20medicines.-,Dr.,news%20conference%20in%20Dania%20Beach." target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the New York Times</a>, Smith's friends told Perper she was in "outstanding general spirits" in the days preceding, even though she was still mourning the death of her son.</p><p>The documentary claimed that Smith had made several attempts to take her own life in the throes of her grief.</p><p>She was buried at the Lakeview Memorial Gardens &amp; Mausoleum in the Bahamas, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/03/film.usa">alongside her son.</a> Her late husband also has his ashes buried in her casket.</p><h2><strong>Her son also died of an accidental overdose</strong></h2><p>Smith's son Daniel — whom she had welcomed with her first husband Billy Smith in 1986 — died on September 10, 2006, five months before his mother's passing and just three days after his younger sister Dannielynn's birth. </p><div type="image" title="Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel in 1997." height="3316" width="4435" msid="100361462" hostid="261" sizebytes="312460"></div><p>Daniel, who was 20 at the time, had been visiting Smith in the Bahamas in the days following Dannielynn's arrival. Per a <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/26/smith.baby/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> report, he had died while spending the night in his mother's hospital room and she had been the one to discover his body the following morning.</p><p>Hospital personnel made attempts to revive him and after they stopped and ruled him officially dead, Smith "who could not accept his death" took over. The outlet noted that she eventually had to be sedated.</p><p>His cause of death was later determined to be an accidental drug overdose, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-annanicole/anna-nicoles-son-died-of-drug-overdose-jury-says-idUSN3V21495120080331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Reuters</a>.</p><h2><strong>Smith's death led to a fierce custody battle over her daughter, who people believed was set to inherit millions</strong></h2><p>As the documentary chronicles, after Smith's death, there was renewed interest in finding out the father of her then 4-month-old baby daughter. As Smith's sole surviving heir, she was set to inherit any money that Smith was entitled to from the estate of her late husband.</p><div type="image" title="Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn Birkhead in 2008." height="1790" width="2387" msid="100361464" hostid="261" sizebytes="175678"></div><p>Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer who had been living with her in the Bahamas at the time of her death, and was named on Dannielynn's birth certificate, claimed that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/26/smith.baby/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he was the father</a>, while entertainment photographer Larry Birkhead filed a lawsuit to prove that he was.</p><p>Others such as Alexander Denk, a former bodyguard and chef for Smith, also <a href="http://archive.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/02/14/anna_nicoles_bodyguard_affair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made a claim of paternity</a> as did Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/gabors-husband-may-be-father-129906/">emerged in the days following</a> Smith's death to say that he had a decade-long affair with the model and could potentially be the dad.</p><p>After a <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/dna-test-birkhead-is-dannielynns-father/">DNA test took place,</a> it was determined that Birkhead was Dannielynn's biological father and he gained sole custody. In 2014, seven years after Smith's death, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/anna-nicole-smiths-estate-loses-final-bid-millions-n184551">her estate</a> failed in its final bid to obtain her late husband's money.</p><p>"Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me" is now available to stream on Netflix.</p>

Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 39, less than 5 months after her son died the same way. Here's everything to know about the tragic events.

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5ccde7c7021b4c2efd31ce22-2400/gettyimages-1146861296.jpg" border="0" alt="GettyImages 1146861296" data-mce-source="Stephen J. Cohen/Getty" data-mce-caption="Jeff Bezos at the 2019 Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala with the party's hostess, Patricia Barnstable Brown" /><p class="source"><span>Stephen J. Cohen/Getty</span></p><p class="caption">Jeff Bezos at the 2019 Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala with the party's hostess, Patricia Barnstable Brown.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>The annual Kentucky Derby eve party held by sisters Patricia Barnstable Brown and Pricilla Barnstable has attracted musicians, athletes, and executives for years.</li><li>The party raises millions of dollars each year for diabetes research.</li><li>This year, attendees included Amazon CEO and richest man in the world Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, Wilmer Valderrama, and Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead.</li><li>For more stories like this visit <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Business Insider's homepage</a>. </li></ul><p>There are Kentucky Derby parties and then there's the Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala.</p><p>For the past three decades, a pair of sisters - Patricia Barnstable Brown and Pricilla Barnstable - have been putting together the bash to end all other Kentucky Derby bashes, attracting athletes, musicians, and this year, the richest man in the world. </p><p>The party annually raises millions of dollars for diabetes research, and Condé Nast has <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/events/kentucky-derby/2018/03/21/barnstable-brown-party-unbridled-eve-derby-party-salonniere-list/440921002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> put it on the top 10 parties in the world list. The hostess sisters meanwhile made the Salonniere's list of top 100 party planners in the country this year and last. The party was hosted this year in a mansion in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood.</p><p>The Louisville party this year included performances from Travis Tritt, Boyz II Men, and Master P, and guests included Jeff Bezos, actor Wilmer Valderra, Tom Brady, and Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead.</p><p>Continue below to see some of the best pictures from this year's blowout.</p>

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Anna Nicole Smith's ex Larry Birkhead honors her in an emotional tribute 15 years after her death

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Where is Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead today? Here's everything we know about the now 16-year-old who's the spitting image of her mom.

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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter got schooled on 'good music' by dad Larry Birkhead on Father's Day

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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is about to enter her senior year of high school, and dad Larry Birkhead is 'so proud' of her for making honor roll

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The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter slams new Netflix doc about Smith, calling it a 'poorly reviewed cesspool' and saying he declined to participate

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Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 39, less than 5 months after her son died the same way. Here's everything to know about the tragic events.

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Inside the Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala, where Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, and Anna Nicole Smith's daughter partied Friday night

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