Who You Calling a Bimbo?

Anna Nicole Smith goes after more black gold

He was 89 when they married in 1994, a billionaire Houston oilman who traveled by wheelchair. She was 26 and took her clothes off for a living.

Love, American-style.

One day last week, when former centerfold Anna Nicole Smith boom-boomed out of a Houston courtroom during a break in the latest blood feud over her dead husband's $1.6 billion oil fortune, a line of autograph hounds awaited her.

"Oh, you're stunning!" a woman blurted. The 5-ft. 11-in. Smith, 32, who modeled for Guess jeans and did a little acting that gave Meryl Streep no worries, just smiled. Nobody even...

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