 In the months leading up to her death, Smith was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the death of her son, Daniel, and the paternity and custody battle over her newborn daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead.Anna Nicole Smith was born as Vickie Lynn Hogan in 1967 in Houston, Texas.She was the only daughter of Donald Eugene Hogan (1947–2009) and Virgie Arthur ("née" Tabers; 1951–2018), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.