Willa Ford to become Anna Nicole Smith · 2007-04-12 17:10
Singer, dancer and one-time Playboy magazine model Willa Ford will star as the late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith in a biographical film about the billionaire’s widow that starts shooting next week, Reuters reported.
Like Smith, who became famous as a model for the Guess? fashion line and as a Playboy’s Playmate of the Year, Willa Ford posed nude for the men’s magazine.
Variety said the independently produced movie would cover Smith’s life from the age of 17 until her February 8 death in Florida from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, five months after giving birth to a baby girl, Dannielynn.
A dispute over the baby’s paternity was settled on Tuesday when a court in the Bahamas released DNA test results showing that Smith’s former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, was the child’s father.
The baby could one day be worth millions if Smith’s estate wins a decade-long battle to inherit a fortune from the late oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. He married Smith when she was 26 and he was 89. Marshall died 14 months later.
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