When 26-year-old Anna Nicole Smith married 89-year-old oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, the public reached its verdict almost immediately. The tabloids called her a gold digger, comedians made the age gap a punchline, and strangers assumed they understood what she wanted. But before the headlines and courtroom battles, Anna had been a young mother in Texas struggling to make ends meet and dreaming of a life far beyond the one she knew.
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