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Anna Nicole Smith was the blonde bombshell whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale: Playboy centrefold, jeans model, bride of an eighty-nine-year-old oil tycoon, TV host and tragic mother. Her car-crash lifestyle and string of lovers made headlines for over a decade. Her death at the age of thirty-nine has already enshrined her as a tragic icon.
Instantly recognisable for her Marilyn Monroe looks, pneumatic figure and outrageous behaviour, Anna Nicole lived both the American dream and the American nightmare, from waitress to one of the most photographed women in the world. Her marriage in 1994 to the octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall, who she met while working as a topless dancer, was one of the oddest and most talked-about relationships in America. Marshall's death triggered a bitter feud over his vast estate that rages to this day, and she found herself constantly in court fighting mammoth lawsuits as well as publicly battling bankruptcy, drugs and weight gain.
Eric Redding, the photographer whose Polaroid shots started it all, and his wife D'eva launched and nurtured her career from stripper to celebrity, from country girl to Playmate of the Year. They reveal the hardship of Anna Nicole's upbringing, her dysfunctional family, and her early teenage marriage. They tell how she boosted her assets with cosmetic surgery and catapulted to fame, starring in movies, hosting her own TV show and indulging in wild sexual excess, while all the time battling against inner demons. Her rollercoaster story ended with the birth of her daughter, the overdose death of her son and ultimately her own shocking demise. Sex Bomb is the sensational story of a tragic star whose life ran off the rails.
ISBN:9781903854686
