When they first met, the then Vickie Lynn Hogan and Sandi Powledge were just friends. But over time that friendship turned into a tumultuous love affair.
Long ago, before blond bombshell Anna Nicole Smith left Houston to find international fortune and fame, she fell in love with a girlfriend who would become her closest companion for three years.Before stardom ever cast a spotlight on the fallen actress and model, before Smith vaulted into the upper stratosphere of wealth by marrying an 89-year-old Houston oil tycoon, before allegations of drug abuse and gold digging ran rampant, it was just Sandi and Vickie.

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Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale — Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother — died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.

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