Famed model, actress and television personality Anna Nicole Smith died five years ago at age 39.

Always appearing in the newspapers and tabloids, Smith's life was often mired by controversy. Even after her untimely death in 2007, controversy continued to haunt her family and friends with as lawsuits and paternity battles poured in.

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Model and former Playboy magazine Playmate Anna Nicole Smith arrives for opening arguments in her bankruptcy case at the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles October 27. Lawyers for Smith asked a judge on Wednesday to award her up to $820 million from the estate of her late husband, Texas oil baron Howard Marshall, money she says he wanted to leave her. But an attorney for Marshall's son called Smith's claim "fantasy" and said the 1992 Playboy Playmate of the Year was not entitled to a single penny from their 14-month marriage, which ended with Marshall's death at age 89 in 1995. Reuters
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