A few months ago I began wondering what ever happened to Annа Nіcоlе Smith.

I hadn't heard a single thing about her for over 2 years, and I began to worry that what had happened to Mаrіlyn Mоnrое might happen to her.

Not since Mаrіlyn Mоnrое has there been such a genuinely sweet and sexy woman, and not since Marilyn has anyone been treated worse for it.

It seems we expect our sex symbols to be goddesses and heroes, willing to give us everything they have with child-like innocence, and yet able to take the merciless mockery we give them in return.

Marilyn, couldn't take it.

She died of a drug and sleeping pill overdose brought on by a deep depression.

I wondered if Anna could.

So I did some digging.

Here's what I found:

It seems Anna's 90-year-old husband died a few years back and left her his fortune.  His family took Anna to court and took every last cent from her.

Bankrupted by her creditors, Anna was forced to leave her pink BelAir mansion and moved into a small, shabby apartment outside Hollywood.

Anna suffered a drug overdose.

Anna then tried working in Europe doing some nude modelling.  She was physically attacked by police officers while being filmed nude on a nude beach and was dragged away by them.

She had broken no laws.

Anna's housekeeper sued her for sexual abuse, claiming Anna had forced her to participate in unsavoury sexual escapades.

Anna's drug and alcohol abuse worsened.

She gained weight.  A lot of it.

There were no more movie offers (unless you count being offered to play a bag lady [!] by two guys making a movie with the money they made selling vegetable-slicers in supermarkets).

No modelling offers.

Nothing.

Then, somehow, miraculously, she cleaned herself up.

Today, she is 100 pounds lighter, off the booze and drugs, and more beautiful than ever (as you can see in the above - rather poor, sorry - screen capture.)

In fact, Anna has a new pictorial for Playboy coming out sometime next year.

Wіll Annа be treated any better this time around?

Probably not.

Will she survive it?

I doubt it.

Frankly I was relieved to discover that she's still alive. Every moment a woman as beautiful as she is on this earth is a precious gift, one we've never learned how to deserve.