Another Anna Nicole Epilogue

Anna Nicole Smith has left many legacies after her untimely death in February of 2007. These legacies include living legacies like her daughter Dannielynn, and pop culture legacies like her Guess jeans campaign and her tabloid TV ending. And then there are those legal entanglements, like the still ongoing battle for J. Howard Marshall’s estate.

One of those legacies came to a conclusion recently in a California courtroom, and it’s a combination of the tabloid and legal elements of her life. “Anna Nicole Smith – Portrait of an Icon” is a tell-all book written by Anna Nicole’s dress designer Pol’ Atteu and his partner Patrick Simpson, who published their own edition to compete with Corona Books, which also published the book.

The authors claimed they only had a draft agreement with Jody Gibson, who is the owner of Corona Books, but a judge ruled recently that Corona Books had the right to publish it. Meanwhile Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead threatend to sue over the material contained in the book, so maybe this small part of the legacy isn’t over after all.