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The terrible revelation about Anna Nicole Smith that makes the Netflix documentary

It has arrived on Netflix Anna Nicole Smith: You don’t know medocumentary of Ursula MacFarlane that delves into the turbulent life of the popular playmateactress and television personality from the 90s. Beyond her interventions in the cinema (with films like Grab It Any Way You Can 33 ⅓: The Final Insult), Smith’s figure was marked by his connection to Playboyher controversial marriage to the millionaire JH Marshall and by the presence in reality shows who fed on his private life.

you don’t know me It tries, from these wickers, to understand Smith and to shed light on the darkest episodes of his life. Without fearing, in this sense, disdaining some falsehoods that the model herself (whose name was previously Vickie Lynn Hogan) launched on his biography. Macfarlane thus wanted to resort to the testimonies of Missy and Virgie Mae Hogan: close friend and mother of Smith respectively. Missy met Smith when they were both ballet dancers. stripteaseand took the future model under her tutelage to teach her to dance.

Missy witnessed Smith become a celebrity, telling the media a story suspiciously similar to her own: one of poverty and domestic abuse. Smith thus recounted that he had grown up in poverty and that Virgie had mistreated him during childhood: however Virgie, a retired police officer who died in 2018, apparently was a sweet woman who loved Smith and helped him in any way she could. And they had no financial difficulties. Virgie appears in the documentary, revealing that she asked Smith several times why she was lying.

She reportedly replied that “he earned more money telling sad stories than telling good stories”, and Virgie also asked if she didn’t prefer the press to publish good things. “Not if the bad it pays better”. The most shocking of you don’t know me however, it is how this hoax by Smith would have covered up another much more disturbing violent episode, related to the biological father of the model.

Meeting with the Hogans

Smith had grown up not knowing his father, something he always blamed Virgie for. Throughout the years she idealized her figure, and once she established herself in Hollywood as a star of Playboy decided to hire a private detective to track him down. This was in the early 1990s, when Smith had already been named playmate of the yearand led the model to arrange a meeting in California with both her father, donald hoganas with his son (and Smith’s biological brother) Donnie. you don’t know me shows images of this meeting.

During the three’s stay in California, Smith took them to the Playboy mansion, where Hugh Hefner organized a party in his honor. They also went to Disneyland. The point is that, as Donnie himself recounts in the documentary, his father “is not the type of man with whom you want to be alone”. Hogan had pleaded guilty to raping Smith’s aunt when she was a child, as well as raping another minor, and had spent six months in prison. She would later accuse him of abusing her other daughters.

It is not clear if Smith knew all this, although if the private detective had done his job he must have. In any case, when Smith returned from California, she was much changed. And then comes Missy’s devastating revelation: “When we were alone later, she told me that her father had tried to have sexual intercourse with her. It was very sad, because I know how happy he was when he met her. She had all these ideas of what he was like, what he was going to be like, and it was such a disappointment.”

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you don’t know me he has no proof other than Missy’s word that Donald Hogan tried to abuse his daughter, but during the documentary Macfarlane asks Donnie about this and his reaction is eloquent: “That would be like him, I wouldn’t be surprised”. This was the great discovery of the documentary. And one that made sense to Macfarlane. “We were surprised to find out, but explains many things. If you look at the chronology of his life, it is after that moment that things get out of hand, ”he says statements collected by Vanity Fair.

It so happens that, several months after meeting his father, Smith went to the hospital after suffering an overdose. “It must have affected him, he had spent his whole life looking for a father figure”, assumes Macfarlane, and relates it to Smith’s marriage to Marshall, which was also consummated around this time. Marshall was a billionaire oil businessman who had 89 years when she married Smith: she had 26. And Macfarlane does not doubt it: “There was a fatherly aspect in that relationship.”

'You don't know me' poster
‘You don’t know me’ poster
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The mystery of Anna Nicole Smith

When Marshall died in 1995 and Smith approached his inheritance, she was painted in the press as a gold digger: an image that worsened as a dispute began with other heirs of the businessman to keep the money. Several testimonies during the documentary show, however, that Smith really loved Marshall. Although Macfarlane herself has some ambivalence: “I think she loved him and he loved her. Now, does that imply that she was not greedy or did not use up your card at the ATM? Both things are true, people are capable of maintaining those contradictions”.

you don’t know me It also pays attention, of course, to how Smith’s addiction to opioids became extreme over the years: especially due to the pain resulting from the various breast augmentation operations that the model undertook. It finally flashes back to Smith’s stormy last days, when she gave birth to their daughter. Danielynnstarted a fight with his custody, shortly after his son died Daniel at age 20, and finally Smith died in 2006 victim of an overdose.

Macfarlane admits that she and her team have worked hard to give a three-dimensional portrait of Smith, but she still realizes that the documentary doesn’t answer all the questions. “I think Anna always will have some mystery”, he concludes.

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