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Anna Nicole Smith’s skyrocket to fame and her tragic death will be the subject of an upcomingNetflixdocumentary.
The untitled film from director Ursula Macfarlane will feature never-before-seen footage from a previously unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood and her burgeoning stardom, according to a statement from Netflix.
“I approached Anna Nicole’s story as an epic mystery tale. How did someone with so much charisma and jaw-dropping beauty, with the world at her feet, fall so far, so quickly?” Macfarlane said in a statement.
Smith (née Vickie Lynn Hogan) found fame as a Guess model andPlayboy’s 1993 Playmate of the Year, also appearing onscreen inNaked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insultand shows likeVeronica’s ClosetandAlly McBeal. She later starred in her own E! reality seriesThe Anna Nicole Show, paving the way for the Kardashians and theReal Housewivesfranchise.
The Houston, Texas native also became a tabloid favorite aftermarrying 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall IIin 1994, whom she met him while performing at a strip club. Smith suffered in later years withdrug addiction, a battle for her late husband’s estate, paternity lawsuits and the death of her first child, Daniel, in 2006. She laterdied of an accidental prescription drug overdosein a Hollywood, Florida hotel room in February 2007.
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“A revelatory feature-length documentary about Anna Nicole Smith, featuring never-before-seen footage of the iconic Playboy and Guess jeans model, who blazed a trail through the ’90s before her tragic death at the age of 39,” the film’s logline reads.
The documentary is still in production and does not yet have a release date.
source: people.com
