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She's an icon. Big, beautiful, buom, larger than life playboy playmate. Completely spaced out, troubled, gold digger. She is high as a kite. Train wreck. [Music] I said, "Mama, you think it stop? You're freaking her out now, Anna. You're freaking Riley out. What? You're freaking her out. Why? That's not a real baby, Anna. You poking her in her face.
She's not real. Is this a mushroom trip? Huh? Is this a mushroom trip? Huh? Is this a mushroom trip? What do you mean? I'm kidding. What does that mean? I'm kidding. I said this footage is worth money. Why? What footage? This thing you're looking into? It's a camera. Exactly. Was it what? For a water park. Yep. I want to go. You can't.
Why not? Cuz your baby. My baby's over there sleeping. Okay. One of your babies. Your baby down there. Your baby down here. That one. I think I just have a little gas. Say that again. Say it again. I think I just I think I'm having some gas trouble. Why aren't you pooing then? Or is it her? It hurts. And I need some I need some gas p stuff so I can p it out.
She does. Do you have the clown needs some medicine? It's fake. You think this is a good time to announce the sex of your baby, Howard? How do you know the stork didn't bring it last night? I think she peed on me. She had a major brain trouble. Cuz look how big my belly is getting. Cuz it's gas. It's your baby. Nuh-uh.
It's gas. It's your baby. No, it's gas. And for baby. Baby. Cuz I can. You know how when you you're having gas and you feel it and it's like that's your baby kicking you. No, my baby's over there. Watch this. It's just gas, soers. April 13th, 1953, the MK Ultra project is created. December 1st, 1953, Playboy magazine is created.
the very first, you couldn't say bunny or centerfold because it didn't really exist yet, but the very first sweetheart of the month for the very first issue of Playboy magazine was Marilyn Monroe. The very first celebrity who was said to be a part of the MK Ultra project was Marilyn Monroe. One of the subdivisions of the MK Ultra program was called Beta Programming.
essentially taking these young, vulnerable girls, subjecting them to intense trauma, involuntary drugging, hypnosis on some occasions, essentially creating these playful predators who are able to infiltrate and seduce their enemies or their target to extract information or put them into a compromising position.
Many of the whistleblowers who have come out and said that they were subjected to this kind of manipulation, this kind of torture, have all said that one of the telltale signs is not only the use of the monarch butterfly, but also wearing different cat prints, tiger print, leopard print, whatever. Oftent times they would use different Disney cues to activate this dissociative state. And one of the main ones that they would use is Alice in Wonderland.
Follow the white rabbit. The Playboy Bunny, the logo for the entire company, is a white rabbit. And the same doctor who is said to be running an MK Ultra LSD experimentation clinic in the Hate Ashberry area of San Francisco was also the very same psychiatrist that Marilyn Monroe was sent to see when she had her famous meltdown.
And he is also the very same psychiatrist that is known to be Hugh Hefner's family psychiatrist who is also also the same psychiatrist who examined Jack Ruby, the guy who took out Lee Harvey Oswald. He also treated Lance Renel when he was staying at the Playboy Mansion when he had sort of a mental break.
He was walking around justbating in public just anywhere he was. And in particular, he was doing it in front of the Playboy Mansion zoo animals. Really weird. But this psychiatrist is not Hugh Hefner's only link to the MK Ultra program and the CIA. In fact, in 2023, an ex CIA operative named Laurel Aston comes forward and says that Hugh Hefner was in charge of the mansion operations part of the MK Ultra program.
And it was essentially a blackmail operation aimed at gathering intel for the agency, the Central Intelligence Agency. And with years of bunnies and playmates coming out explaining how they were involuntarily made to take different substances, do different things they didn't necessarily want to do, and experienced what they would call traumatic experiences at the Playboy Mansion. It certainly parallels the MK Ultra program with the involuntary drugging that was happening.
And let me remind you, both of these things started in 1953. But this might help explain Hugh Hefner's involvement with a 1975 humanitarian aid project just after the Vietnam War ended in which the US was evacuating 3,000 Vietnamese children back to the US. This was called Operation Baby Lift. Tell me that doesn't sound spooky.
But these babies were all evacuated and brought back to processing centers in the US and the main processing center was at Prescidio Military Base in San Francisco. Once they were processed through this base, they were going to be sent off to their new homes through these adoption centers.
And Hugh Hefner actually offered up his personal private jet, the Big Bunny, to transport 41 of these children, to New York, where they were going to meet their new families or whatever. He brought with him a whole team of medical staff and nurses. No, I'm just kidding.
He brought a bunch of playmates and Playboy bunnies to take care of these 41 kids, watch over them, and make sure that they were safe. Most of them were babies. But we would find out later that among these 3,000 evacuees, many of these children did not need to be adopted out or be rehomed. They had families that were still in Vietnam that were left without their children.
So, it makes you wonder what was really going on with this operation. But let's make it a little bit more interesting. Prescidio military base would also be the setting and subject of a satanic panic in 1980, very shortly after all of this happened.
And some of the allegations were that a satanic ritualistic cult was performing these awful rituals and abusing young children. Then during an investigation in 1986, a young girl would come forward and specifically name a guy named Michael Aino. He is a psychological warfare specialist for the United States Army. He also worked for military intelligence during the Vietnam War.
Apparently, he was working with the child development center at Prescidio Army Base and he had been involved with multiple different abuse allegations. The interesting thing about this guy is that he is the founder of the temple of set which is a sector or kind of a branch of the church of Satanism and he's proud of it.
Obviously, there was not enough evidence to convict him of anything. So, he was acquitted and nothing happened. Indeed, the army does officially recognize Satanism as a legitimate religion and supplies chaplain with this guide for ministering to the satanic soldier.
Just last month under a full moon, I took a midnight tour of the Prescidio grounds. Are you saying that there was a satanic cult active right here on the army base? Yes, we believe so. There's evidence to substantiate that they had satanic rituals going on. There was an altar in there and all of the graffiti animal would indicate that. Let's see if I can see.
Satanism may be a constitutionally protected religion, but similar to another recent case at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Here, charges surface connecting ritual child abuse at the Presidio daycare center to the devil cult. What actually was done to the kids? Uh, our old population, sodomy, uh, defecation. Uh, they were urinated on. Colonel Aquino, we note, sir, for the record that you were originally implicated in the dreadful charges of child abuse.
We note also that no charges were ever brought against you. Well, the entire time that uh the so-called child molestation scandal was occurring at the Prescidio, the time period when um uh these terrible events were supposedly taking place, I was assigned to the National Defense University in Washington DC and my wife was out there living with me.
But is it not a fact that a three and a half-year-old girl identified you as the alleged perpetrator of molestation? No, as uh a matter of fact, it is not the case. An accusation was made by her stepfather, who was an army chaplain, speaking on behalf of this child. In her original interview with the FBI, she denied ever being molested. Well, I've seen the I you are innocent until proven guilty. You were never charged in this case.
I don't want to belabor the point. I have seen, however, the affidavit for the search warrant of your home and they indicate the child is speaking to the authorities, not her father. This was after she had been subjected to therapy. Do you feel it is inconsistent with a high-ranking officer pledged sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States that you are also a practicing Satanist? Not in the least. The Army has known of my religion for the last 20 years.
There has never been a problem with it any more than there is a problem with other members of minority religions. But let me read from the Satanic Bible. Quote, one of this is the the number one uh uh I guess uh commandment. Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong.
How can you believe this and still uphold the Constitution of the United States? Death to the weakling. Well, for one thing, what you're looking at there is a highly polymical book that was never meant to be taken literally in all. Yes. And I'm aware of that. And I'm also saying that members of the Church of Satan understood that much of this book was in the form of a palemic.
It was a statement that was dramatically made, but was not intended to be taken literally in all its respects. So, we should not take this book literally. Correct. We can't really say if these two things are related or not, but it is fairly interesting that they both seem to happen at this same military base, both with links to US intelligence.
But if Hugh Hefner was in fact a CIA asset, gathering blackmail and intel for the Central Intelligence Agency, then you'd imagine that he had to have cameras in every square inch of that Playboy mansion, including the bathrooms.
And you'd have to imagine that he's got a massive vault of tapes just like Epstein and just like Diddy. Tapes that we will probably never ever see yet again. Every room, even outside on the properties, every place had microphones and little cameras. Hefner taped everything in his bedroom. And many men and stars and athletes came into the bedroom and had sex with these girls. Most of the time Hefner never participated. He just watched.
He was a voyer. He would stage them. He thought of himself as a film director. He didn't want to be on the tapes. He wanted these girls and the stars. But many of the girls were devastated after what they were expected to do, what they were forced to do. Well, can you imagine after he had all these tapes of you having sex with different girls what power he had over these men? Well, according to Hugh Hefner's wife, Crystal Hefner, in her memoir from 2022, she very specifically says he has a vault of tapes and photos and just tons of different material that he's gathered
and collected over the years that she very conveniently destroyed when he passed away. So, Hugh Hefner exploited young females for profit. He involuntarily administered different substances to encourage compliance. He was known to make friends with very important political figures and celebrities.
And he had surveillance around his entire property so that if anything weird happened or if anything happened that you might not want to be caught on camera, he now had some information on you. He now had some way to control you. He also owned a massive mansion complete with a zoo. Well, what you see down here are a lot of comforters and some rabbits.
Now, the guys who are making all the noise here are are spider monkeys. They're very common and relaxed until we get here and then they, you know, they think they may get a shot at MTV. It's Pepe and Coco, a Disney owl. And this was a place where people stayed full-time, constantly had young girls walking around half naked. He had his own private jet.
And conveniently, before anybody could figure any of this out, and before the FBI, who has a 131page document on Hugh Hefner, could raid his Playboy mansion and see what kind of information he had. He passed away. It kind of reminds us of somebody else. I can't really put my finger on who it is, though.
And honestly, I don't know how I didn't see this sooner. Like, Hugh Hefner is the original Epstein. And Hugh Hefner, much like Epstein, has a string of bodies that are closely associated or directly tied to Playboy Enterprises. In fact, there's 16 plus different cases of people who ended up unresponsive in very strange, precarious circumstances. Two of those are extraordinarily famous.
of course, Marilyn Monroe being possibly the first sex kitten, but the other one who one could argue is a spitting image of Marilyn Monroe, who absolutely adored and idolized Marilyn Monroe and who tragically found herself in almost an identical situation as Marilyn Monroe. I'm talking about Anna Nicole Smith. Let's go.
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Second order of business, just because I really don't have any other time that this is going to be something I would ever really share. I don't even remember when this happened, but my grandpa decided maybe like five or six years ago, to gift me his entire collection, or at least some of his collection. I don't know if it's his entire collection. It's his 1977 to 1978 collection of Playboy magazine.
I was extremely hopeful that in this massive stack of Playboys that he gave me that he would have given me the 1992 Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith edition, but he didn't. But I do have Barbara Stryerand in here. So, and yes, I was very hesitant to take this from my grandpa.
I figured most of the pages would be stuck together or something, but you can't turn something like that down. Not from your grandpa. When he offers you a stack of Playboys, you take them. All right. This is a $150 right here. You get your money's worth with this. It's a freaking thick mag, dude. All right. And our final business item for today is going to be our sponsor.
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Yeah, I just wanted to thank Amy and Floyd and Dylan and Caleum. Thank you guys for being amazing neighbors. Thank you for sponsoring this video. And like I said, go support the sponsors. You got to support the homies. Everybody remembers the 1992 Playmate of the Year, Anna Nicole Smith. She looked just like Marilyn Monroe. She was gorgeous. She had perfect features.
She was fairly robust. Drop deadad gorgeous. Playmate of the year status. But she wasn't always like that. In fact, Anna Nicole Smith was never even born. Vicky Lynn Hogan, however, was born on November 28th, 1967 in Houston, Texas. Her mom's name was Vie Arthur's and her dad's name was Donald Hogan.
Her mom was a deputy sheriff's secretary working at the local sheriff's office and she was obviously a little bit more strict than other parents. And her dad was a truck driver. It's kind of a douche. He left at 6 weeks old. He took off. He went on to have multiple other marriages with multiple different wives having five more children. That's kind of messed up. Vicki actually wouldn't even know or meet her dad until the 1990s.
Now, in his defense, Donald was only 20 years old. So immature, not ready for responsibility. Sure. Vie was only 16 years old, but when he up and left, he left Vie as a single mom, working at the sheriff's office, making only about $200 a month. So she was left relying on churches, any sort of donation organizations, and food stamps so that she could basically stay afloat.
Vicki had a brother named Donnie, and the two of them were extremely close because her mom was never really around. She was constantly working, trying to support the family. Growing up poor, Vicki always had dreams of getting out of that lifestyle and really turning things around for herself.
She was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and she thought that maybe one day she could achieve that same level of stardom and she would be just as beautiful as the legendary Marilyn Monroe. As a freshman in high school, Vicki was a far cry from the Anna Nicole Smith that we now know of. She wasn't super popular in school either. She got picked on.
She definitely didn't enjoy being there and because her grades suffered, she eventually got kicked out of school. So her mom thought maybe a change of scenery would help. So she sent her to Mahia, Texas, which is just a little 7,000 population town right outside of Waco. And she was going to live with her aunt there, and hopefully get her act together.
Hi, this is Maha, that town where I'm from. Hi, welcome to Ma Texas, the town of my hometown and my childhood. And I live here, not anymore. I moved. Hello. Welcome to Texas. Um, hey, my hometown. Oops. Blooper. [Music] Cut. This is Ma High, home of the Black Cats. And this is where I went to school. I wasn't very popular in high school. Although I was flatchested. Instead, Vicki dropped out of high school at the age of 16 in 1984.
And she went to work at a fine local establishment known as Jim's Crispy Fried Chicken. Hi, it's me, Anna, back at Cris Fried Chicken where I used to work for four years. and the back. And I am bad. [Music] And this is where I live. It was at this chicken joint that Vicki met a young fry cook named Billy Wayne Smith.
And in 1985, the two of them started dating. And then very shortly after that, Vicki would find out that she was pregnant. 9 months later on January 22nd of 1986, Vicki would give birth to her son, Daniel Wayne Smith. The two of them were extremely young parents and any parent knows that bringing a child into the world brings with it a lot of stress, a lot of challenges.
And for Vicki and Billy, she says he became extremely controlling, extremely jealous, and abusive to the point where in 1987, after only a year being together, she packed up her things and she moved off to Houston to pursue a career at a strip club called Gigi's Cabaret. She left Billy and Daniel behind. She changed her name.
She wanted to change it to something a little bit more catchy, especially being in this new industry. and she really didn't like her name Vicki, but she always thought that the name Nikki sounded good. So, she started going by Nikki. And her ultimate goal was to make enough money to where she could then go back, get Daniel, and start this new life with him, just the two of them.
When Nikki started working at Gigi's Cabaret, she really didn't know anybody. But there was a girl there named Missy. And when Nikki came in, she was like extraordinarily beautiful. Everybody noticed her. But when she went up to dance and do her audition, Missy noticed that she was really awkward. So she took Nikki under her wing, taught her the art of seduction, and got her making way more money at this strip club.
But Nikki was just feeling like there was still something holding her back. And she deduced that it had to be her chest. She didn't feel like she had a big enough chest. So she decided to get breast implants. And that really would be the start of this whole new look that would lead us to Anna Nicole Smith.
Nikki and Missy would actually become extremely close friends. They spent tons of time together and eventually that would blossom into a romantic relationship. This would be Nikki's very first relationship with a woman. And Missy talks a lot about how she just felt so comfortable with Nikki.
She never felt comfortable with a guy because of really intense past trauma that she'd been through. She had been taken advantage of by people within her family when she was a kid. She was beaten extensively. It sounds like she lived a truly horrific childhood. And one of the really interesting things that would come out much much later in the most recent Netflix documentary is that Anna Nicole Smith throughout her entire career would talk about how she was horribly abused by her mom, how she was taken advantage of in essay kind of ways by her dad and her, I don't know, men close to her mom
and basically just stole Missy's childhood traumas from her in order to bolster this whole image that she had of this troubled, vulnerable, traumatized young girl who was just trying to make it in the big world. Tell me about your home life with your mom and your dad. My home life with my mom and my stepfather.
Um um I switched around a lot and stayed with my aunt most of the time because of my home life. Um I'd really rather not talk about my home life. So, I guess you could consider that kind of like a fun fact because I know you guys like fun facts.
In 1989, while working a pretty normal shift at Gigi's Cabaret, a young man comes in, 89 years old, named Jay Howard Marshall. Really don't know what an 89year-old guy was doing at a strip club, but hey, man, good for you. He apparently was going through some tough times because he had just lost his wife after many, many years of marriage and she had been battling Alzheimer's for the last few years of it.
And maybe he was just looking for a companion. But Nikki and Howard Marshall, they link up and for whatever reason, Howard wants to spoil her and shower her with gifts and give her everything that she wants or needs to be successful. Because it just so happens that Jay Howard Marshall is a billionaire oil tycoon. He was a Yale law student who graduated in 1931.
He would go on to write multiple books on how to solve the whole boom bust oil industry cycles because they'd have these periods where oil was in high demand and then it would be in no demand. And so they needed some way to kind of stabilize it. And he seemed to be the source.
He was so important that he actually got brought in with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's whole New Deal program and he was writing policies in relation to the oil industry and how to manage oil and keep these boom and bust cycles at a minimum. He then left that role and joined Standard Oil Company as a lawyer and Standard Oil of course is owned by the Rockefellers.
But that would change during World War II when the Germans were starting to restrict oil shipments being sent to the US or really anywhere. And he decided that he needed to do something to prevent these oil shortages in America. So he started a company called Ashland Oil. And then he also co-built the Great Northern Oil Company in Minnesota, which was a fairly important project at the time because there was all of this really difficult to process Canadian tar and there was not a lot of refineries around the world that could actually process this stuff into petroleum. But this new oil refinery was able to do it. So they were
able to bring in all of this really difficult to process material and start making money out of it. Around the same time as the Great Northern Oil Company was created, another company was created by four brothers named the Koch brothers and they created Koch Industries, which is another upand cominging really successful oil producer.
Because of the success of these two businesses, Jay Howard Marshall decided that he wanted to trade some of his shares from Great Northern Oil for some of the shares with CO Industries. And honestly, this was a really good move on his part because Ko Industries would explode right after this.
It would become a billion-dollar company, which would make Jay Howard Marshall a very rich man. By the time that him and Nikki had met, he was worth $2 billion. And it seems like Howard was really grateful for Nikki's company because he really wanted to shower her with gifts, give her everything she wanted. He bought her her own mansion.
He bought her her own car, supplied her with money enough so she could support her son Daniel, and she ended up having him come move out with her. He gave her $50,000 a week so that she could go do what she needed to do, get her career off the ground, start getting her name out there, pay for glamour shots, you know, all the things that it takes to get your name out there when you're wanting to bust into Hollywood or become a model or an actress.
Howard had proposed to Nikki multiple times, but she said no every time. She told him that she really wanted to get her own thing going, her own career started before she decided to marry him because she didn't want to be labeled a gold digger. But she would also go out and say that she really does appreciate the financial security that Howard brings to her life and they both offer something to each other and that she offers him comfort, emotional support, just I don't know, having somebody there and he provides her with the money that she needs to make her dreams come true. By
this point, Nikki had quit stripping. She was solely focused on making a name for herself and finding some sort of success, preferably as an actress or a model. And that's when she saw an ad by a guy named Eric Reading. He was looking for someone who wasn't scared to show it all and had centerfold potential. So, she reached out.
The two of them linked up. They did some photos, mostly black and white. A couple nudes were thrown in there. And Eric just felt like she had serious centerfold potential. And he stayed in constant contact with Marilyn Grabowski, who's the photo editor at Playboy Magazine. And he sent off some of these photos and said, "Yo, you got to check this girl out.
" And Marilyn, she loved her. She said, "Dang, this girl is beautiful. She does have that spark, that it quality, just that vibe about her to where she would make a really good playmate." According to Marilyn, for Nikki's audition for the Playboy magazine, she came in and she was extremely timid. She was super nervous.
She didn't want to get undressed and she honestly was just not doing it. But she had brought a record with her and on this record was the song sung by Marilyn Monroe called Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend from the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. [Music] Girlfriend. As soon as the song starts, her whole demeanor changes. She suddenly gets undressed and delivers an amazing audition.
so amazing that she's brought on as the very next Playboy magazine playmate. This Playboy attention also garnered some attention from one of the most legendary jeans manufacturers at the time, Guest Jeans. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] and guest models were very well respected, very well paid and to be one
was considered I don't know pretty much an honor. Not just anybody is going to be a guest model. So that same year of 1992, she was brought on to do some photo shoots for guest jeans, but she just didn't feel like her name really fit the whole personality or the whole persona she was trying to adopt at this point.
And after talking with Paul Marciano from Guest Jeans, he suggested that she probably should get something that's a little bit more memorable, a little bit more playful. And she really liked the name Nikki. And since her last name was now Smith after getting married to Billy Wayne Smith, she decided that Anna seemed like a really good name. So she'd be Anna Nicole Smith.
With this name change, a boob job, blonde hair, Anna Nicole, her transformation was complete. And she was a bombshell for sure. And she looked just like Marilyn Monroe, which is likely the reason that she landed the Playmate of the Year for 1993. Up until this point, Anna really didn't do drugs.
She had experimented and messed around with drugs and drinking while she was working as a stripper in Houston, but she was never really addicted to anything. She didn't have any problems. As soon as she starts working at the Playboy Mansion, just like we talked about at the beginning of this episode, drugs were everywhere being given to these girls involuntarily.
These playmates were prayed upon because they were easily recognized as being very vulnerable. Especially Anna, who's involved with an 89year-old man who very clearly is gold digging at this point. You can tell that she's obviously very interested and influencable by money. Almost immediately after starting this new Playboy career, she gets hooked on prescription medications like Valium, quaudes, these heavy barbituates. she starts to develop a serious problem.
And wouldn't you know it, immediately after being named Playmate of the Year, being fully immersed in the Playboy lifestyle and the Playboy Mansion, she has a hospitalization due to prescription drugs being mixed with a alcohol. The timing is pretty interesting. Might mean something, might mean nothing. But maybe she was a sex kitten.
Now that she's made it, she decides that it's finally time for her and Jay Howard Marshall to tie the knot. She finally says yes, and the two of them get married in 1994 after she finally signs divorce paperwork and officially divorces Billy Smith in 1993. Howard was pushing to adopt Daniel because he was now living with them out at this massive mansion that he had purchased for Anna.
But the lawyer that was working for Howard wouldn't do it. and his son Pierce Marshall. He wouldn't do it either. Anna claims that at their very small, very shotgun wedding ceremony, Jay. Howard Marshall had promised her half of his 1.6 billion dollar estate. This was just a verbal agreement, nothing written. It was never put in his will.
And because of his age, Pierce actually fought to get control of basically his finances and his estate because he started to feel like his dad was losing it. and might end up giving his entire estate away to this random girl who is clearly gold digging in his opinion. But 14 months after this beautiful shotgun wedding, unfortunately Jay Howard Marshall would pass away. I'm sure you'd be interested to know that he did pass away from pneumonia, which is a little bit interesting. Did Anna Nicole maybe have something to do with it? I don't know. Drop it in the comments.
This would mark a mental breakdown period for Anna Nicole for sure. Either that or she's putting on a real big show to really push the whole brokenhearted widow image. I'm not really sure. I mean, she attended Howard's memorial service in her wedding dress. What the f? But then just two months later in November of 1995, she is hospitalized for six days and her spokesperson says that it was an adverse reaction to some prescription medication. Right.
Howard passing away really had an effect on Anna, though, because she started gaining quite a bit of weight. And this actually led guest jeans to fire her, not even have her come back for any more shoots, even though they signed a three-year contract. And the whole reason they did that was because she was too big. That's crazy, you guys. So sad.
Pierce Marshall had cut off the $50,000 a week or a month allowance that she was getting from Howard. And in 1996, she has to file bankruptcy. Because Anna says that she truly was promised half of Howard's estate before he passed away. She feels like she's entitled to it. and she decides to go to court and battle it out to try and get her her half her portion of the estate. After 14 months of marriage, Jay Howard Marshall died at the age of 90.
Anna Nicole was not even mentioned in his will. She says a wife should get half, but her 61-year-old stepson doesn't want her to get a dime. Once we're married, you know, half of everything is mine. That was his promise to me. This is when a young lawyer who represents many famous entertainers, actresses, models, he steps in to try and help Anna win this court case to get her half of the estate. This guy's name is Howard K.
Stern, which I think is really funny. They have to call him that cuz he's not the Howard Stern. He's Howard K. Stern. Yeah, that must suck to be the the second version of something. This would spark a 15-year long court battle that would get escalated all the way up to the federal Supreme Court of the United States, Scotas.
Over the course of this 15 years, Anna is still working with Playboy. She's still working as a Playmate. She is still falling deeper and deeper into her prescription pill addiction. And even worse, her son seems to be getting involved with it as well. things have upgraded from just prescription medication and now she's also taking methadone. As Anna gained more and more weight, she obviously did less and less with Playboy, but eventually she would get hired to be a model for Lane Bryant, which is like a plus-size women's clothing company, I guess. And she was very successful with Lane Bryant for a little while, but yet again, her drug issues seem to get in
the way. and she's still fighting this crazy legal battle in which she's winning and getting promised, you know, $475 million and then suddenly a court decision revokes that and turns it all around and then she's actually not getting any money. In fact, she now owes money to the Marshall estate.
So, it's just a constant back and forth for many, many years. But the public would get to see just how Anna Nicole was doing in August of 2002 with the release of the Anna Nicole show. This was around the same time period as like the Osbors and other really popular reality shows. Anna Nicole was kind of a train wreck.
So they figured who better to put on the screen to entertain people and make a fool of themselves than Anna Nicole. And that's exactly what happened. There's three things people seem to think about me. They think I'm rich. I'm not rich. I'm gonna be rich. They think I'm a gold digger. And they think that I'm fat.
Oh god, I cannot wait to get another home. These babies keep wanting to pop outside, right? My mom always used to tell me, yes, always take a quarter with you in case something happens. But you know what? So you can call someone. But now a court don't even buy a phone charge. What do you think of the outside? I think it's like a Mexican type.
Yeah, like a can of can canabana. Is that what you call it? Woohoo. Ray. Whoa. These bad boys are trying. Yeah. Help me out. I love him. I just love her so much. You got to help me get it. Razor, I I have to have this house. Sure. Come on. But no matter how messed up she is, she's still hilarious. She seems to be the life of the party and she always just seems like she's in like a positive, playful mood.
It's kind of weird how she can just always be like that, but I guess it is cuz she's super high. But it is worth noting that sex kittens are programmed and trained to be playfully predatorial. So, they're very good at being flirtatious and being funny and silly and fun and just putting on this persona. Think about it.
But very similar to the Britney situation we talked about last week, there's quite a few people at this point in time that are trying to figure out if this is a body double, if this is even Anna Nicole. Did they take her out? Is she being held hostage or being controlled by something? People are freaking out. So that alone should let us know that something seemed to be going on.
People at the time were even suspicious. And likely one of the main reasons for that is halfway through the life of the show, Anna Nicole starts marketing this new product called Trim Spa. Maybe you guys remember that. Trim Spa Baby. And this product was essentially just a fedra which is I don't even know.
It's just like a hardcore stimulant that helps you burn fat, makes you really really active, but it also puts a lot of strain on your heart. And tons of people were having heart attacks and dying. So they actually had to ban the product. Tons of lawsuits ensued. It was kind of a disaster of a product.
But Anna Nicole comes out looking thin as ever, looking like a completely new version of Anna Nicole. Like the old version actually. Everybody is talking about it. Like holy, she looks so much better. Which really advocates for this Trim Spa stuff because she had gained quite a bit of weight and then lost it. She said she did it all using Trim Spa.
not working out, not changing her diet, nothing. But she did fail to mention that she was extremely addicted to multiple different prescription medications. But as of 2006, things seem to be going Anna's way with the whole court case, trying to get her half of Jay. Howard Marshall's estate.
Supreme Court actually got involved and ruled that she is entitled to fight for her half of the estate and they sent it back down to the court of appeals to go to the next stage of the process. Unfortunately, with this big win comes a major loss because Anna is named as codefendant in these false advertising lawsuits that are hitting this Trim Spot company because she put her face on the product. People are saying this was false advertising.
this product isn't safe and it's not a weight loss supplement. This is just basically drugs that help you lose weight. Which then adds even more to the stigma that she is super far gone in her addiction. And the only reason she even lost all that weight was because she was addicted to drugs. Then seemingly out of nowhere in June of that year, she announces that she's pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she's six months pregnant.
Hi, it's me, Anna Nicole. As you can see, I've been hearing a lot of gossip in the papers. Is Anna pregnant? Is she pregnant? She's pregnant by some guy. Well, let me stop all the rumors. Yes, I am pregnant. I uh I'm happy. I'm very, very happy about it. Um everything's going really really good. And uh I'll be checking in and out periodically on the web and um I'll let you see me as I'm growing. So that's it at the time.
This is also the same time frame that we get that really really weird and sad video of Anna Nicole Smith with her face painted like a clown and her lawyer who has kind of weasled his way into Anna Nicole's life in more of a personal capacity. He's behind the camera basically making fun of her asking her if she's on a mushroom trip.
Is this a mushroom trip? Is this a mushroom trip? Huh? Is this a mushroom trip? What do you mean? I'm kidding. What does that mean? I'm kidding. This footage is worth money. Why? What footage? This thing you're looking into. It's a camera. What is going on here? What is so funny about this? One of your babies. Your baby down there. Your baby down here.
Got one. I think I just have a little gas. Say that again. Say that again. I think I just I think I'm having some gas trouble. Why aren't you pooing or is it hurt? It hurts. And I need some I need some gas poot stuff so I can poo it out. She does. Do you have the clown needs some medicine? You think this is a good time to announce the sex of your baby? This Howard guy is definitely a handler.
And if you consider the back and forth with this whole court case, the closer he gets with Anna, the more money he's making as her lawyer, number one. But he seems to be weasling his way into her personal life. Almost like he wants to get his hands on this settlement or this estate if he does win this court case.
Then in September of 2006, she would finally give birth to baby daughter Daniel Lynn. But this moment of joy would be cut way too short when just 3 days later, Daniel, Anna's son, passed away from an overdose in the very same hospital room while visiting his mom in the Bahamas. Obviously, Anna is destroyed. That night that she gave birth, her son Danny was flying into to meet his new sister and to be with his mother. It was a reunion that lasted a night and then the next day the horror set in.
And in that same hospital room where Anna Nicole has given birth, brother Daniel overdoses and dies. He is found upright in that hospital chair, in that hospital room. It is a tragedy of Shakespeareian dimension. All right, Dr. Wick, you performed the autopsy on Daniel. Daniel died of what? Um, combined drug toxicity, Larry.
Methadone and two anti-depressants. She's struggling with her emotions. It's been uh very rough. And she said that she didn't want to trade out children, meaning she didn't want one to be born and another to die. What should be an amazing moment with a brand new baby girl has turned into a tragedy.
Her birth will forever be tainted by this tragedy. And what makes it even worse and slightly more interesting, Howard K. Stern was the only other person in this hospital room with Daniela, Daniel, and Anna. And he was allegedly seen throwing away two white pills that were found in Daniel's pocket after he passed away. What's up with that? And he took photos of him.
Yo, dude, back up. But I was really curious why she was in the Bahamas in the first place. And apparently she went down there seeking citizenship and residency so that she could avoid having to do a paternity test with Daniel Lynn. And just to highlight how it's very possible that Anna was a sex kitten groomed from the Playboy Mansion, her ability to seduce men and then get what she wants is out of this world.
And a perfect example of that is her experience with Shane Gibson, the Bahamian immigration minister, who granted her residency within one month, which is unheard of, simply by saying that she owned a $900,000 home in the Bahamas when that home was actually still being disputed over in the courts and she technically was not the owner of that property. But there was pictures that surfaced of her with this Shane guy.
People speculate that there was something going on a little bit under the table. That's why she got granted access to have this baby in the Bahamas. 20 days later, Howard K. Stern comes out publicly and announces that he is the father. I'm a father that's fighting to be in his daughter's life. I know that I am. I bought my little daughter a teddy bear and Kim refused to give it to her.
I also bought her a dress for her birthday and Kim refuses that too. Joseph is not Monaet's father. I am. But one of Anna's ex-boyfriends, a guy named Larry Burkehead, he was a former photographer. He says that he's the father. Listen, Mark, what? I really want to be this kid father. Mark. And of course, they both want to be the father because Daniel Lynn could very well be the next heir to this huge estate that Anna is fighting to control. So, it pays to be her dad.
And then this is where things get real murky. Howard K. Stern, two days later on September 28th of 2006, exchanges vows in a commitment ceremony, aka he gets married to Anna Nicole Smith. In my opinion, it seems like he realized the whole daughter route wasn't a sure thing, but he could easily convince Anna to marry him when she doesn't even know that her baby is a baby and she thinks it's a ball of gas. But whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're not done yet.
Then on November 7th, Anna Nicole is released from a week-long hospital stay where she was sick and diagnosed with flu-l like symptoms and pneumonia. And Howard K. Stern is seeming more and more and more and more like a handler every second because of ongoing legal proceedings between Larry Burkehead and Howard K. Stern over the paternity of Daniel Lynn.
The courts finally order Anna Nicole to bring Daniel Lynn in for an official paternity test. But something happens and this gets kind of put on hold for a little while. From December till February, she wasn't really enjoying much of the new mom life because there's tons of lawsuits surrounding it.
She's still battling this lawsuit for the Howard Marshall estate and she just lost her son that she loved so dearly. So, she's hiding out in the Bahamas trying to avoid this paternity test stuff, but she's still off and on getting extremely sick. And in February of 2007, she finds herself feeling extremely sick.
She's fighting off some sort of illness and she decides to take just like a quick trip to the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Apparently, she stays here quite often and she was waiting for Howard K. Stern to go purchase some new yacht and then the next day they were going to go out on the new yacht, but she was fighting an illness. And from many, many, many of my old stories, we know that there's tons of people taken out by handlers that exhibit these flu-l like pneumonia symptoms just before they pass away. And sure enough, on February 8th of 2007, at the age of 39 years old,
Anna Nicole Smith collapsed and unfortunately went into cardiac arrest and passed away. It began at the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Anna Nicole Smith was found unconscious in her hotel room this afternoon by her private nurse. A bodyguard tried to save her. By her private nurse, a bodyguard tried to save her. By her private nurse, a bodyguard tried to save her.
At 1:45, a bodyguard administered CPR to her. At approximately 1:45 p.m. today, the 70 Police Department responded to the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel in reference to a person needing medical assistance. The person later identified as Anna Nicole Smith was transported by paramedics and transported to Hollywood was treated by paramedics and transported to the Hollywood Memorial Hospital. Her body would remain in a refrigerator for 3 weeks while her mom and Howard K.
Stern and Larry Burkehead all fought over control of Anna's body. Her mom really wanted control of it because she wanted to bury her next to Marilyn Monroe because she loved her so much. And it would kind of make sense because both of them would end up having overdosed on a substance called chloral hydrate. Now, that wasn't obviously the only thing in their system.
For some reason, Marilyn Monroe was extremely extremely into using this chloral hydrate barbituate heavy heavy downer. It might have been more prevalent back then, but it didn't really seem like it was. And yet Anna Nicole also seems to have developed an affinity for this chloral hydrate which seems to put you really really out like clown video out of it.
But if you combine that with methadone and seven other different sedatives and anti-depressants and seizure medications, then it is kind of a cocktail for failure for sure. All they found in this hotel room 607 were tons of prescription medication bottles. All of these bottles were prescribed in different names, but a lot of them were prescribed either to Anna or Howard K.
Stern. Come to find out, he's been getting these prescriptions filled through a doctor friend illegally, and he's been supplying her with way more pills than she should be taking, as you probably already assumed. We also find out that Daniel passed away from an OD.
He had Lexapro and Zoloft in his system, but what really pushed him over the edge was he had way too much methadone in his system as well. All of these substances were sourced from Howard K. Stern. So, naturally, criminal charges are opened up and filed against him for these wrongful deaths of these two people. And he's facing time in prison.
But guess what? because of a court technicality because Florida State would technically have to prosecute him first because that's where things had actually occurred. California State can't prosecute him until Florida does. And since they aren't going to, the whole case gets thrown out. So, he was trying to weasle his way in. He thought he would get rid of Daniel, the first heir.
Then he would adopt or claim Daniel Lynn, which he officially did because his name is on the birth certificate, even though Larry Burkehead gets found to be the actual father. You are the father. And then since he wasn't able to claim Daniel Lynn and he's gotten Daniel out of the picture, all he has to do is marry Anna and now he is the sole executive of her estate.
Unfortunately, that plan would backfire real hard. Obviously, Larry Burkehead is the actual father, so he doesn't have any control over Daniel Lynn or this estate that she just inherited from Anna Nicole. He is now married to Anna Nicole and he would absorb any of the estate that he won from the Jay Howard Marshall court case.
But they eventually say that Anna doesn't get anything from the estate. But just like with all handlers that I seem to come across, the amount of information on these people is extremely limited. And the same is true for Howard K. Stern. We know that he partnered with somebody and started this law firm.
We know that he represented other models, actresses, high-profile clients. We don't know who they were, and we certainly don't know much else about this dude and what his motives were. Maybe he was working for Playboy and Hugh Hefner. We just don't know. But one thing's got me real curious.
Was Anna Nicole a sex kitten? Was she a product of the MK Ultra program? But the biggest question that I had in trying to figure out was Playboy and MK Ultra really working together was why? Why would they have any interest in the corn industry? Just doesn't make any sense. But I was reading something that was kind of interesting. It was talking about how when corn became more popular, people's ideas and people's triggers in terms of what actually turns them on continue to evolve because things that were considered risky like 20 years ago are now mainstream. We now see this stuff all the time. So, it takes more and more
creative voyeristic approaches for certain people to hit that same stimulation. It creates this void or this disappointment with real life experience because the corn world is so vastly different and very much based on fantasy. So when your real life experience doesn't live up to that fantasy, it almost demotivates you from even wanting to achieve that or chase that or want that when you could just go home, watch some corn, and enjoy your own personal fantasy session by yourself. So, I thought that was kind of an interesting theory. It literally is a
brainwashing technique to isolate us even further. Everything in society seems to be trying to isolate us and keep us from coming together. And why do you guys think that is? You know why that is? You know why? Divide and conquer. So, I don't know. I want to know what you guys think. Drop it in the comments below.
Do you think MK Ultra had anything to do with this? Do you think Howard K Stern was responsible for this? Or do you think that Anna just died from a broken heart and maybe intentionally planned this? She was just too much to handle at this point. So many things were going wrong. There was so much mystery and unknown that maybe she just didn't want to be here anymore.
But she also had a brand new baby girl, so I couldn't imagine her really wanting to leave her behind like that. Also, if you have your own theory, feel free to drop it in the comments. If you haven't checked out my Britney Spears video, definitely do that. That's the main reason we even talked about Anna, all the similarities between their story, just kind of the the media scrutiny and the constant focus on their fall from grace. The media loves when people fall from their grace, 100%.
Next week, we're going to cover Marilyn Monroe. So, I mean, it just kind of makes sense. So, look forward to that. If you just can't get enough sobering stories, I'll leave a playlist at the end. Feel free to check that out. Otherwise, I'll leave some videos there. If you don't subscribe to the channel, please subscribe. Hit the notification bell.
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