Netflix’s new documentary Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me marks the latest unscripted title to pull back the curtain and take a closer look at a public figure who was caught in the midst of constant personal turmoil and unfair media scrutiny.
You Don’t Know Me shows viewers unseen archival footage of the model, actress, and media personality, covering her stratospheric rise to stardom and the tragedy and controversy that befell Smith in the mid-2000s. The documentary humanizes an otherwise misunderstood “blonde bombshell.”
One of the biggest questions surrounding Smith’s legacy following her untimely death in 2007 centered on her daughter Dannielynn, who was less than one year old. A media circus ensued when multiple men claimed to have fathered Smith’s daughter. For those wondering, here’s the definitive answer as covered by You Don’t Know Me.
As evident by her last name, Dannielynn Birkhead’s biological father is Larry Birkhead, a photographer who had a relationship with Anna Nicole Smith. Prior to this revelation during a heated paternity case, Smith’s live-in boyfriend and lawyer Howard K. Stern was listed as the child’s father on her birth certificate.
In addition to Birkhead and Stern each claiming to be father of the late Smith’s only living child, other men also insisted that they could have potentially been the father: Alexander Denk, Mark Hatten, and Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt were among those who made headlines during the tense court battle.
On April 10, 2007, the results of a DNA test from the previous month were revealed, leading to the announcement that Larry Birkhead was the biological father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter. Birkhead changed Dannielynn’s last name to his own and won sole legal and physical custody of his daughter. As of May 2023, Dannielynn is 16 years old.
Watch Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me only on Netflix.
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