Anna Nicole Smith married her secret girlfriend
A new documentary about Anna Nicole Smith dropped on Netflix — and it revealed she was reportedly in a ‘secret relationship.’
Melissa ‘Missy’ Byrum, a friend of the late model, claimed in the doc — titled “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” — that the two were in a ‘secret relationship’ and got married ‘in the backyard by the pool’ in 1993 after Smith proposed to her.
(New York Post, May 16, 2023)
Sure, and Marilyn Monroe “married” her secret girlfriend too…
The producers are undoubtedly using Byrum to stimulate interest in their documentary. Because I suspect even Smith’s closest friends had no idea she married this woman.
This is why the blaring headlines about it sound like trees falling in the forest that no one hears. But I suspect they might inspire Whitney Houston’s secret girlfriend to claim the same.
Hey, it’s not like anyone can disprove her claim. It was an “informal” marriage, after all…
Did Smith get any money from her billionaire husband?
Even so, Byrum is outing Smith as a bigamist. Because only a year later, she married 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall.
He played her sugar daddy until the day he died. That was a year later. A sensational fight over his estate between her and his children ensued, naturally.
But Smith looked and sounded like the prototypical gold digger. So she was not a very sympathetic plaintiff. She (and, after her death, executors of her estate) pursued her claims for nearly 15 years. But a court finally ruled that Smith’s estate was not entitled to any of Marshall’s.
Anna Nicole Smith was famous for being famous
Smith was a stunning combination of Kim Kardashian and Dorothy Stratton. In other words, her life was as much of an open book as her sex appeal was a given.
Interestingly enough, many compared her with Marilyn Monroe. But Smith was all sex and no talent, not even for sex – if rumors were true. And that might explain her lesbian relationship with Byrum. In contrast, Monroe was as talented on screen as she was in bed – if rumors were true.
Instead, Smith was famous for being famous. This was the premise of her reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Smith Show. She pioneered the genre that led to Paris Hilton and her show, The Simple Life. And, of course, Keeping Up with the Kardashians took monetizing fame to a whole new level.
The Bahamas: scandal and tragedy in paradise
I became interested in Smith only when she began living in my mother country, The Bahamas. But I had little choice.
Smith caused a national scandal during her short residency. Her son died there under mysterious circumstances in September 2006. That was scandalous enough, especially because drugs were involved.
Then came the eerie coincidence when she died in Florida only months later, in February 2007, under similar circumstances.
But her relationship with a government minister had heads spinning and tongues wagging. Rumors abounded that she seduced Minister of Immigration Shane Gibson. And that this is why he fast-tracked her application for permanent residency.
He denied it. But pictures of him and this buxom blonde snuggling up in her bed gave credence to those rumors. Because their pictures ran not only in tabloids but on the evening news worldwide
Unsurprisingly, the government had a lot of ‘splainin to do. After all, the Opposition made it seem like Smith posed a threat to national security. They forced Gibson to resign.
So questioning Smith’s residency was like looking a gift horse in the mouth. Back then, only visits by British royals drew more world attention to our island paradise.
What was Howard K. Stern to her
Smith might’ve secretly married her girlfriend. But her manager Howard K. Stern claimed that she secretly married him too. And his relationship with her was more scandalous than her marriage to Marshall.
Suffice it to know that Stern managed Smith like Svengali managed Trilby. Then he joined forces with Larry Birkhead, her young daughter’s baby daddy. And together, they continued her futile fight for a piece of Marshall’s estate.
But this rumor that Smith married her secret girlfriend means she may never rest in peace…