Playboy wants readers to vote for the sexiest commercial of all time. They pulled together a great collection of commercials starring some of our favorite entertainers including, Anna Nicole, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Alyssa Milano and many more. Which is your favorite? I don’t like Paris’ Carl’s Jr commercial. I live down the street from a Carl’s Jr so this commercial would air in my area and I always found it annoying. I find Paris annoying so it makes sense that I wouldn’t like to see her in a wet bathing suit washing a car and eating a burger. I like Britney’s Curious commercial, it is sexy and not too sleezy.

Smile Brad and Angelina, you’re on not-so-candid camera, with a photo of the Hollywood star couple with baby Shiloh topping a list of the most expensive celebrity photos.

Financial Web site Forbes.com on Wednesday posted a list of top 10 most pricey celebrity photos led by a June 2006 shot of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hovering over baby Shiloh at No. 1 with a pricetag of $4.1 million paid by People magazine.

The picture of the two proud parents was followed by wedding photos taken of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore at No. 2 that fetched $3 million in October 2005 from OK! magazine.

Brad and Angie landed in four of the top 10 positions while deceased Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith and people in her life captured another three.

Forbes.com said all the photos were published by one of four celebrity magazines — People, OK!, In Touch Weekly and US Weekly — and it quotes one magazine editor as saying the qualities that make the pictures costly are surprise, news and emotion.

Forbes.com said it surveyed the top-priced sales in the United States over the past 10 years, and its estimates are not adjusted for inflation. The site said it relied on published reports for its information.

Following is the list:
1) Shiloh Nouvel, Jolie-Pitt baby, $4.1 million – People
2) Moore, Kutcher wedding, $3 million – OK!
3) TIE:
- Eva Longoria, Tony Parker wedding, $2 million – OK!
- Larry Birkhead & baby Danielynn, $2 million – OK!
- Pax Thien, Jolie adopted baby, $2 million – People
6) Anna Nicole Smith/Howard Stern wedding, $1 mln – People
7) TIE:
- Sean P. Federline, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s baby, $500,000 – People
- Jolie & Pitt, 1st couple photos, $500,000 – US Weekly
- Jolie 1st pregnant photos, $500,000 – People
10) Anna Nicole Smith & son Daniel, $400,000 – In Touch Weekly

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Katie Holmes, Rosie O’Donnell and Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter, Dannielynn, are among the boldface names on OK! magazine’s list of “most influential” celebrities.

The list of 19 famous faces, which appears in the magazine’s latest issue, on newsstands Friday, was separated by editors into six categories: beauty queens, style setters, entertainers, newsmakers, survivors and body shapers.

OK! named Holmes, the 28-year-old wife of Tom Cruise and mother of their 1-year-old daughter, Suri, a beauty queen because of her “refreshing girl-next-door look” and sporty cropped haircut. Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez also made the cut.

O’Donnell, who brought ratings and controversy during her tumultuous tenure on ABC’s “The View,” made the list of newsmakers, as did Hollywood supercouple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and “Grey’s Anatomy” star T.R. Knight. Knight announced he was gay after it surfaced that Isaiah Washington had used an anti-gay slur against him during an on-set clash with a co-star.

The youngest celebrity on the list: 10-month-old Dannielynn Hope, who was recognized as a survivor because she has been “at the center of Hollywood’s most controversial tragedies,” the magazine said. Her mother, Anna Nicole Smith, died in Florida in February. A bitter paternity dispute between Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead was put to rest months later when Birkhead showed he was Dannielynn’s father.

The top three entertainers – the “people who decide what we watch and listen to,” according to OK! – were “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell, Carrie Underwood and model-TV host Heidi Klum.

Tyra Banks was among the “body shapers” who influence notions of body image. Banks, who was dubbed fat after she was photographed on the beach, later appeared on her syndicated TV talk show in a bathing suit.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Timberlake and Kate Moss were named the most prominent trendsetters in fashion.

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“I can make clear at this time,” he says, “that I am not the father of the child.”

The Playboy magnate enjoys his laugh about the paternity uncertainties still swirling around Anna Nicole Smith, but his feelings about the former Playmate turned pop icon are no joke. In serious fashion, his bunny empire will offer three upcoming Smith tributes: a 10-page pictorial in the magazine’s May issue, an hourlong retrospective on Playboy TV and an online memorial on Playboy.com.

Smith, who first appeared on the magazine’s cover in March 1992 and was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, was 39 when she died of an accidental drug overdose in February.

So what was it about the buxom blonde Texan that Hefner found so alluring?

“It was her presence in front of the camera,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday, chatting in the library of his famed Playboy Mansion. “She was one of those who loved being in front of the camera and came alive in front of the camera. There was very clearly a Marilyn Monroe quality about her and that aspiration was clear from the very beginning. She talked about Marilyn Monroe all the time.”

Smith often posed like Monroe, he said. At a Halloween party in 2004, she came dressed in a “Marilyn Monroe-type outfit” accompanied by three men in tuxedos: her attorney Howard K. Stern, boyfriend Larry Birkhead and son Daniel.

“The irony in terms of Anna Nicole’s fascination with Marilyn Monroe is how successful she was in building a similar kind of career, not through acting but simply through celebrity itself,” said Hefner, who was wearing his usual silk pajamas and smoking jacket. “The tragedy is she lived large as Marilyn did and died in a very similar way.”

She was still Vickie Smith when she first caught the eye of Playboy editors, who argued over whether to include her in the magazine.

“She came here and she weighed about 160 pounds,” Hefner recalled. “We like the voluptuous ladies but not that voluptuous. It was a wonderful statement for the simple fact that beauty has no limitation in terms of size. You can be a big lady and a beautiful lady, and she was.”

With three tributes, might Playboy be opening itself to criticism for profiting from Smith’s death? Not the case, Hefner quickly replied. “It’s quite frankly celebrating her in a way that she would appreciate.”

The publishing titan turns 81 on Monday, but makes little concession to the calendar. He just celebrated his birthday with a bash in Las Vegas, and recently started work on the third season of The Girls Next Door, an E! reality show about life with his girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.

Their upcoming adventures include an appearance at the Toyota Grand Prix, where Hefner will serve as grand marshal (and Wilkinson will drive a race car), and a trip to Monte Carlo at the invitation of Prince Albert, Hefner said.

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Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose after she was found unresponsive at a hotel, authorities said Monday.

“We found nothing to indicate any foul play,” said Chief Charlie Tiger of the Seminole police department.

Neither Tiger nor Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper immediately said what drug or drugs were involved in her death. Perper said the detailed autopsy showed no evidence of disease.

Smith, 39, had been found unresponsive Feb. 8 in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood.

The weeks after her death that day were filled with public courtroom drama and private whispers about what might have killed her. Officials delayed releasing the autopsy results because of additional evidence, not publicly released.

Perper’s initial examination had revealed no serious injuries. Perper said then that prescription drugs, but no illegal drugs, were found in Smith’s hotel room, though he wouldn’t identify them.

Smith had arrived at the Hard Rock on Feb. 5 and planned to leave four days later aboard a new yacht that her companion Howard K. Stern was arranging to buy. She was seldom seen outside her room during her stay: She was said to be suffering from a stomach flu before she died.

Because her death was so sudden, and because her 20-year-old son Daniel died under suspicious circumstances five months earlier, there has been speculation about possible criminal activity surrounding the deaths. The Seminole Police Department investigated the case because the casino is on tribal land.

An inquest into Daniel’s death is scheduled to start Tuesday in the Bahamas, where he died.

Smith grew up in Texas and went from topless dancer to Playboy Playmate of the Year, Guess jeans model and bride of 89-year-old oilman J. Howard Marshall II. She took her fight for Marshall’s estimated $500 million fortune as far as the Supreme Court, and the ongoing battle could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Stern and two other men have claimed to be the baby’s father.

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The results of former Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith’s autopsy are expected to be revealed Monday, but already two sister publications are claiming the model died from a toxic amount of sleeping medication in her system.Sister publications Star Magazine and the National Enquirer claimed Smith died from an overdose of sedative chloral hydrate. Anna Nicole’s idol, Marilyn Monroe, also had the drug in her system when she died, Access Hollywood can reveal.

Smith did not, the magazines reported, have methadone or other painkillers in her system when she passed away.

Smith was already suffering from another ailment when she took the fatal overdose according to the magazines. Before leaving the Bahamas for Florida, they claim her buttocks were injected with a substance from an unsterilized needle, which caused a major infection.

“As she boarded the plane for Miami, Anna Nicole developed a painful abscess at the site of the injection,” a source with knowledge of the case told the magazines. “The needle wasn’t sterile. The pain kept getting worse as the abscess got larger and larger very quickly.”

After becoming very sick with a high fever Anna refused to go to the hospital. Instead her people treated her at the hotel. She reportedly had a high temperature, diarrhea, vomiting and was unable to pass fluids.

“She was still vomiting and suffering diarrhea,” the source told the mags. “Again, she spent the whole day in bed, as the abscess continued to grow. She was in such pain, she just wanted to sleep.”

The Enquirer and Star then said Anna Nicole took the overdose of chloral hydrate, the evening of February 7, leading to her death

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This is an unbelievable peak into Anna Nicole’s soul during the start of Anna’s career which chronicles a series of soap opera type events in her life that continues today more than ever after her recent tragic death. The diary features twenty-six (26) separately dated entries which date from June 3rd 1992 to August 16th 1992. This purple colored hard cover diary is imprinted with the quote “I follow my own star” on the cover and the first thing you see when you open the book is Anna’s handwritten original legal name “Vickie Smith” and the underlined demand beneath her name which exclaims “Do Not Read!”. Anna Nicole actually makes her first entry in this diary a few days BEFORE she meets Paul Marciano of Guess Jeans which was the very start of her frantic leap into the spotlight she so desperately craved.  “Please God, Let him love me” begs Anna. – Marciano did love Anna, and the rest is history! This diary features so many unpublished secrets in Anna Nicole’s life, although we will not hurt the value of this piece by quoting every page word by word, but we will tell you that these personally written memoirs answer questions that millions of people worldwide  want to know. Questions like: * Who was Anna Nicole’s best lover?  * Details of Anna’s surprising events with her mother (which drastically contradicts her recent claims of being a good role model for Anna). * What happened during Anna Nicole’s weekend getaway with Guess Jeans Chairman Paul Marciano? * Did Anna like being on stage to promote her Playboy Playmate Spread? * How did Anna Nicole truly feel about sex? * Was Anna Nicole faithful to Howard Marshall? *We all know about the many men who claim to be the father of Anna Nicole’s new baby girl “Danni Lynn”, but just how many men could have been the father during Anna’s pregnancy scare while she was with billionaire Howard Marshall? * What were Anna’s thoughts regarding her many vices, including men, alcohol and pills? * Which men in her life did Anna think were not being faithful to her? * Did Anna Nicole have weight issues early on?  Even while at the top of her game as one of the worlds most beautiful models?  You’ll be surprised! ??.and much more! The fact that this secret diary exists has caused a stir around the world in the past two weeks, and hints to what is written inside this diary has made the consigner major bucks. ** Please note: The winner of this lot will own exclusive rights to all images and information within the diary EXCEPT for the first and last handwritten pages.  Those two pages have already been granted semi-exclusive status with Phoenix Books of Los Angeles, who purchased the semi-exclusive rights to those two pages for their upcoming book “Train Wreck – The Anna Nicole Smith Story”.  These semi-exclusive rights to the above mentioned two pages expires on April 21st , 2007 when the book is scheduled for release.  The winning bidder will obtain all exclusive rights for republication of those two pages AFTER April 21st, 2007.  Accompanied by impeccable provenance, including dual Letters of Authenticity from PSA/DNA Authentication Services and Global Authentication

 

The medical examiner who conducted Anna Nicole Smith’s autopsy said Thursday that he knows how she died.

But the details of Smith’s February 8 demise remain shrouded, as Broward County Medical Examiner Dr Joshua Perper said he will delay making his findings public until Florida’s Seminole Police Department completes its investigation.

Perper told Fox News that police told him that additional evidence had been obtained in Smith’s untimely death at age 39. Perper said it was unlikely but possible that he would change his conclusion based on the unspecified additional evidence.

Gossip website TMZ.com said that the meeting between police and Perper came just after detectives working the case had interviewed the bodyguard who was with Smith on the day she died. The report quoted him as saying that she was on “heavy doses” of prescription drugs that day, and that the behaviour of her partner Howard K Stern had been strange.

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Anna Nicole Smith dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.

The reality TV star was mourned at a lavish memorial service on Friday, with her companion Howard K. Stern, her mother Virgie Arthur and her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead all battling for custody of her 5-month-old Dannielynn in attendance.

Smith’s mahogany coffin, topped by the pink blanket with rhinestones spelling out her name, was carried into Mount Horeb Baptist Church as hundreds of tourists and fans watched from behind steel barricades guarded by police. Some in the crowd cried out “Anna! Anna! We love you!”

Inside the church, Smith’s favorite color was on display. Pink roses and flower arrangements lined the aisle and adorned the altar, where organizers placed two photos of the blonde bombshell including one showing her in a shimmering white gown and striking a Marilyn Monroe-like pose.

There were fewer than 100 guests at the service, even though an organizer said about 300, including an “Entertainment Tonight” camera crew, had been invited. Rock guitarist Slash, formerly of Guns N’ Roses, was among the guests, and country singer Joe Nichols performed two songs, guests said.

Arthur, Birkhead and Stern took turns eulogizing the 39-year-old Smith, who died last month in a Florida hotel.

“It was pretty tough. The funeral itself was a mixture of emotions, there was a lot of crying and laughing,” Birkhead, wearing a pink tie, told MSNBC after the service.

He also referred to comments Stern reportedly made at the service about the legal fight over custody of Smith’s daughter.

“We were all given equal amount of time and that’s how he chose to spend his time. I wouldn’t have used my time that way. … It doesn’t make anything better,” Birkhead said.

Kathryn Beranich, a supervising producer on Smith’s reality TV show, said she thought Smith would have been happy with the ceremony. “I think she wouldn’t have been pleased with the division between her biological family and the extended family she created and loved,” she told The Associated Press.

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A murder accusation sparked chaotic scenes at the Fort Lauderdale courthouse where Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, and lover, Howard K Stern, fight over her remains. The bizarre legal triangle is completed by celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father of Smith’s infant daughter Dannielynn Hope.

Taking the stand, Smith’s mother implied that Stern was responsible for her daughter and grandson’s death. “My grandson did not overdose,” said a tearful Arthur. “Howard was there when he died and Howard was there when my daughter died — and he has my granddaughter …”

Birkhead’s attorney, Debra Opri, appeared to directly accuse Stern of murdering Smith. Stern’s lawyer, Krista Barth, said: “Miss Opri just made a statement to my client that he actually killed Miss Smith. I have to protect him,” said Barth.

Judge Seidlin moved to end murder speculation stating that the issue of where Smith is to be buried needed to be resolved as the celebrity’s body is rapidly decomposing, despite being embalmed on the weekend.

Smith’s mother wants her daughter to be buried in Texas, Anna Nicole’s birthplace, while Stern wants her laid to rest in the Bahamas, where her son Daniel is buried

“Bring it on, mommie dearest”

While Arthur lashed out at Stern, Anna Nicole slammed her mother from beyond the grave. In a video presented by Stern’s legal team, Anna Nicole called her mother “evil”, accused her of regular beatings, and said she will “never” get to see her daughter Dannielynn Hope.

By the end of the first excerpt, Anna Nicole’s lower lip is trembling with anger as she challenges her mother, saying: “Bring it on mum, mommie dearest, bring it on!”

Arthur watched quietly, with her husband’s arm on her shoulder, while Stern was handed tissues after putting his head in his hand as the tape was played.

So eerie was the video that Judge Larry Seidlin asked it to be stopped half-way through

Faxed will

In further developments, it has emerged that a copy of Anna Nicole’s will was faxed to the home she shared with Stern just five days before she mysteriously died.

It is unclear whether it was being sent to the former model or her partner, but it has led to speculation that she may have been about to make changes to the document.

Another possibility is that Stern may have needed to see it for some reason.

The revelation, throws into question Stern’s testimony in the Florida courtroom, after he insisted he did not know much about the document. During cross-examination, Stern had told the judge he did not know much about Anna Nicole’s will.

He said he does not “remember” taking part in its conception and knew only that the estate “was supposed to go to her son and I was supposed to be the guardian”.

Stern also said that Anna Nicole had “talked about” changing the will since the death of Daniel.

Now a fax cover sheet has emerged showing the document was sent from the offices of Ron Rale, who represents Stern in the case, to the couple’s home in the Bahamas.

It was sent at 2.18am on February 3, two days before Anna Nicole and Stern arrived in Florida on a boat-buying trip that proved to be her last.

Stern’s legal team has admitted they were not sure where the original will was and that all they had were non-authenticated copies.

Bug phobia
In an odd footnote to the case, it has come to light that Anna Nicole was so afraid of bugs she wanted to make sure they could not get to her after she died.

Giving evidence, Stern said the reportedly death-obsessed Smith had asked him to make sure he found a cemetery for her family where plots were bug-proof.

He said: “She wanted me to look at how secure the ground plots were and whether bugs could get into the body because both she and Daniel were afraid of bugs.”

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