Billy Wayne Smith: What happened to Anna Nicole Smith’s ex-husband?

Billy Wayne Smith is the ex-husband of Anna Nicole Smith. Billy Wayne’s ex-wife, Anna Nicole was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy magazine when she won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for fashion companies, including Guess, H&M, Heatherette, and Lane Bryant. Anna Nicole Smith’s first husband was the father of her son, Daniel, but whatever happened to him?

Billy Wayne Smith: Bio Summary

Billy Wayne Smith Was a Year Younger than Anna Nicole Smith

The late Anna Nicole Smith was born in 1967 while her first husband Billy Wayne Smith was born a year later in 1968. Billy gained much of his popularity from being the ex-husband of the former Model. Billy is 56 years old as of 2024. He is an American citizen just like his former wife.

At the pick of her prime, Billy Wayne Smith’s ex-wife, Anna Nichole was featured on the cover of the March 1992 issue of Playboy magazine as Vickie Smith. She appeared as the Playboy Playmate of the Month in a pictorial shot by Stephen Wayda for the May 1992 issue. Smith secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer in a Guess jeans ad campaign featuring a series of sultry black-and-white photographs

How did Billy Wayne and Anna Smith meet?

But there was one person who knew her long before her rise to fame, though he never made it into the spotlight by her side. Anna Nicole’s first husband was the father of her son Daniel Smith, and in fact, his was the name that Anna had always gone by.

Anna Nicole was born Vickie Lynn Hogan, but she later chose a stage name with the help of Paul Marciano, the head of Guess. But she didn’t have to go far for inspiration; she used her ex-husband’s last name.

How did Billy Wayne and Anna Smith meet?  One of many forgotten facts about Anna Nicole is that she dropped out of school at age 14. The star-to-be was working at a fried chicken restaurant when she met Billy Wayne Smith. Billy was a cook at the restaurant. The two fell in love while working together in the establishment. Buts it was that smooth for Anna to get Billy’s attention.

While anyone would have easily noticed Anna Nicole’s beauty and probably try to get her attention, Billy Wayne didn’t. He paid her no attention even though they worked together, which made the former model frustrated. According to Anna Nicole, it was his ignoring her that caused her to pursue him until they wed. About the whole ordeal, she said:

“He drove me crazy. I chased him and chased him the way young girls do until I finally got him and married him. By then, of course, I wasn’t interested.”

The former couple got married in 1985, and Vickie gave birth to their son Daniel in 1986. She named him Daniel, “like Daniel in the bible,” as she once described her son. And by that time, it seems, Billy Wayne Smith’s ex-wife, Anna Nicole had already left him behind. The two weren’t divorced until 1993; about a year and a half later, Anna Nicole married her second husband, the American billionaire businessman, academic, and government official. J. Howard Marshal.

After that, it seemed Billy Smith had only been a blip on the starlet’s radar. Despite still being legally married to her husband, a younger Vickie Lynn Smith didn’t seem too keen on home life. Many journalists highlight that Anna Nicole’s mom took care of baby Daniel while she was working, which leads fans to believe that the young mom had split from her husband long before their actual divorce happened.

The model claimed that the marriage was a “disaster.” and that when they were dating, Billy was nice to her, until they got married and he started becoming possessive. “I wasn’t allowed to go out of the house or go to the store. He was so jealous,” she disclosed.

Details are hard to come by, however, although there are early photos of an awkward Vickie Lynn with Billy and their infant son. Billy Wayne Smith made another appearance in the star’s life, however, when their son Daniel passed away in 2006. Billy Wayne Smith’s son Daniel died in his mother’s hospital room while visiting her at the maternity ward in Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, on September 10, 2006, just three days after she had given birth to his half-sister Dannielynn Birkhead.

 Cyril Wecht, an American forensic pathologist, revealed the 20 years old Daniel Smith accidentally overdosed on methadone and antidepressants. Larry Birkhead also testified at an inquest, stating that security in the house indicated that Billy’s son had stolen his mother’s methadone, actually used drugs with his mother, and lost about twenty pounds before his death.

While Anna Nicole was in the Bahamas with her young daughter, Billy, and his family had a memorial service for Daniel in Mexia, Texas. Daniel was ultimately buried in the Bahamas, however, begging the question of whether she and Billy were in touch then.

Today, Anna Nicole’s ex-husband is 55, and he hasn’t been mentioned since the memorial for Daniel, and he apparently didn’t attend Anna Nicole’s funeral in the Bahamas.

When Anna Nicole Smith passed away in 2007, fans remembered her as a well-loved, eccentric, and troubled star who had married an aging oil tycoon too close to his death after leaving Billy Wayne Smith. Her life and passing were a fascinating subject to anyone who had heard her name or her story.

The model also left behind her daughter Dannielynn, which created a media storm as her true paternity was revealed. Billy Wayne Smith’s ex-wife, Anna Nicole had lied and covered up who her daughter’s father was, though the truth came out after her passing. Billy Wayne Smith who doesn’t want no fame has been living his private life away from the cameras.