Anna Nicole Smith’s scrawled diaries are on the auction block. Two tomes filled with giant childish writing and drab grammatically challenged accounts of her daily concerns from 1992 and 1994 are expected to fetch $50,000 to $100,000 at auction. These are the same diaries that were owned before her death by an LA memorabilia shop andwent for 1/2 a million to a German collector, who is said to have sold them to the auction company.
The auction house, Heritage Auctions, which describes itself as “The World’s Largest Collectibles Auctioneer” has the journals. This kind of shows how stupid celebrity worship can get, although I have to admit that I got a perverse pleasure out of reading them, which is surely what sellers are banking on.
Anna goes on about how she’s hung over, talks about her messy house and need to diet, and uses the diary like a friend to talk to, saying goodbye and that she’ll talk later. She adds a little smilie face at the end of each entry that details her mood. She seemed to geniunely love her octogenarian billionaire husband, whose health was failing. In a 1994 entry she called on Jesus to help her get through his illness and said she didn’t know what she’d do if she lost him, which was inevitable soon:
Jesus loves you yes he does Jesus love me to. He looks from up above at me and you… My husbands [J. Howard Marshall] very sick and weak, Theres nothing I can do I want each hour to comfort him with medicines and prayers… When you touch him Im afraid he might break… Sometimes he tries to smile and give me such hope, he a fighter and I believe he can make it…If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I’ll do. I love him so much… I wish Pierce [Marshall’s son] would stay out of our lives and let us be…He took all the money away from me would not pay my bills… they should have never let him out of the hospital with namonia…God I just love him so… Sometimes I think of awlful things like hes going to die…I dont think I would be stable enough to go to his funeral if he died… I need some support and I have none. But I do have Jesus and my Director is comming down to support me. He’s the one who brought me back to Jesus… I can’t dare sleep cause he will pull out that breathing tube. No one else stays here but a few minutes. But im his wife and I want to be here… Ive cried so much I dont have any tears… My husbands much better…I believe hill live to a hundred and 10 and still keep fighting untill the End… My husband has had a miracle. Jesus let him stay he new he shouldnt take him away… I’d die for him hes so precious to me… I am now devoted for life to Jesus…”
That Jesus business seemed to have been short-lived.
Other entries in the diary detail the beginning of her relationship with Guess head Paul Marciano and her struggle with her weight:
Smith, whose real name is Vickie Lynn Smith, noted — in a very freeform style — the beginning of her relationship with Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess Inc., where she eventually replaced Claudia Schiffer in the company’s jeans advertisements.
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Dallas | Anna Nicole Smith | Playboy Playmate | J Howard Marshall | Heritage Auction Galleries“O my Gosh!! Paul Marsiano called today to see if I got his books also I’m gonna go to San Antonio to do photo shoot,” she wrote on June 23, 1992. “I’m so excited!! I can’t believe this. This could be it.” The entry ends with five hand-drawn smiley faces.
Two days later she details a trip to a Nieman Marcus store where she bought $3,000 worth of clothing.
“I’m so happy they look great,” she wrote. “I hope it empresses Paul Marsiano. … I’m starving!! I’ve been starving myself.”
By August, Smith revealed a disdain for eating and sex, and growing frustration with Marshall, who was 63 years older than Smith. The two married in 1994.
“I’ve been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can’t quit eating. I feel like a pig. Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes,” she wrote. “I don’t no what to do about Paul hes strange guy. I hate for men to want sex all the time.”
The entry ends with a large underlined “Chow!”
In these samples from her diaries, which I painstakingly pieced together from the zoom on the smaller flash versions available on the auctioneer’s website, you can see that her handwriting is kind of quick and sloppy, and looks like a messier version of Paris Hilton’s writing, as seen in the diaries unearthed on the Paris Exposed site.
Other meaningless personal effects of Annas at auction include a 1992 check she wrote to FedEx with a cutesy puppy print, a reminder note she wrote to herself, a 1992 Bloomgindale’s receipt for $17,000 and her Texas ID card, which expired in 1994.
Here are excerpts from Anna’s Diaries.
And here is Anna in 1993 as the voluptuous face of Guess jeans. Thanks to marlies84 on Oh No They Didn’t! for finding these.
I’m always intrigued by the poor writing of the journal entries. Paris and Anna seemed to share the same brain – and hand writing!
Great post. The Diary makes her look more like a real person to me. It’s so personal.
Thanks for the effort of posting them.
She seems so lost.
… talk to yeah later? …
Do most people write in print instead of cursive? Doesn’t that take forever?
The hubby prints, but he learned English and the roman alphabet later in life, and never learned cursive.
I print most of the time because my cursive handwriting is so bad that usually I can’t even read it. No excuses, just have never been able to write neatly.
Some how I never thought that she could read or write or that she even when to school.
Poor soul, she makes me sad that she suffered so much while on earth, she actually rivalled Jesus Christ in the pain and suffering.
You know, what they say, that when you die you rest (though most of us don’t seem to wat to rest.) Anna needed her rest. RIP
Anna Nicole rivaled Jesus in pain and suffering? That’s a serious stretch!
Wow, you say what you like about the woman’s intelligence, I don’t think anyone can deny those are some beautiful pictures. Absolutely stunning.
After reading some of the ANS diary I only feel even more so for her. RIP our sweet baby Anna….Love Ducky
POOR, POOR ANNA NICOLE. She suffered SO MUCH. Feh! Bull$hit! Her “career” was making money by going to court and pouting on a witness stand instead of working for it.
Busy Body you must be a serious enabler to even make a statement like that. You’re just as bad as Howard.
Hold up now.
You DID NOT say she almost suffered as much as Jesus did. That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. VERY few people have suffered that much, and she was NOT one of them. You shouldn’t say that. She didn’t spend 30 some years being persecuted, and she didn’t spend four hours suffocating on a cross while everyone yelled at her. That was definitely not the case. She also didn’t have nails rammed through her hands and feet. So how about you just shut up? M’kay? >:-P