Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthur has died after a long battle with cancer, DailyMail.com has learned.
The 66-year-old passed away at her home in Montgomery, Texas on Sunday, November 18.
Arthur was the only surviving parent of the famous playmate after her father Donald Hogan, 62, died of lung cancer in 2009.
Anna Nicole, who died of a drug overdose aged 39 in 2007, would have turned 51 this Wednesday.
Her mother spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com last year, in a poignant interview on the tenth anniversary of her daughter's death, revealing she had warned her to be wary of those around her, after her 20-year-old son Daniel died.
She recalled the wild antics of her 'beautiful, funny' child, who she calls by her birth name Vickie Lynn, and who she believes the world never really knew.
Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthur died at her home in Montgomery, Texas on Sunday, November 18 after a long battle with cancer, DailyMail.com has learned
Just last year, the infamous playmate's mother spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com last year, in a poignant interview on the tenth anniversary of her daughter's death
The grandmother broke down as she spoke of the devastating loss of Smith's son, Daniel, who also died of a drug overdose five months before his mother.
Arthur said it was hard to believe that a decade has passed since both their deaths.
'I'll be crying all day,' she said, speaking of of tenth anniversary of Anna Nicole's passing, February 8, 2017.
'I cry on Danny's death day and I cry on Vickie's death day. It is very hard and it brings up such terrible, terrible memories of her death and what happened to her.
'She was very young, very beautiful and very funny when she was Vickie Lynn. People won't know her as Vickie Lynn like we do. Her family knows her because they were raised with her.
'Other people don't, they just know her as Anna Nicole. Vickie Lynn was a great kid and now she's gone.'
She added: 'People say that you get over it but you never get over it. You never forget and you never get over it. God just makes a way for you to accept it.
'I was totally devastated. My little Danny. Totally devastated.
'No one has been charged with Danny's death nor her death. Nobody.'
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967 in Houston, Texas and her parents divorced before her second birthday. Her mother remarried and she grew up with five half-siblings in the small oil and gas town of Mexia, near Dallas.
She dropped out of high school her sophomore year and took a job as a cook at a fried chicken shop where she met her first husband, Billy Wayne Smith. The couple had one son, Daniel Smith, in 1986.
Virgie recalled the wild antics of her 'beautiful, funny' child, who she calls by her birth name Vickie Lynn, and who she believes the world never really knew
Anna Nicole, who died of a drug overdose aged 39 in 2007, would have turned 51 this Wednesday
Arthur looked after Danny for the next six years until Smith's career took off.
She got her big break in 1992, after sending naked pictures to Playboy magazine. She was featured on the cover and became Playmate of the Year in 1993.
But she found the notoriety she desired when in 1991, she met octogenarian billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall while performing at a Houston strip club and embarked on a relationship with him – while still married.
Her mother described Marshall as a 'sweetheart' but admitted that she was shocked by the age difference.
'One time, when we all went to dinner together at his club, he said to me, 'You don't have to worry about Vickie Lynn or Danny, I will take care of them for their whole lives.'
'He was in a wheelchair and he was really old. Vickie and I went to the bathroom, and I said "Vickie, how old is that man?" and she told me. She said, "But momma he helps me."
Smith divorced her first husband in 1993 and a year later, she married Marshall. She was 26 and he was 89.
Her name became synonymous with gold-digger but the Playboy pin-up insisted that she had married Marshall for love.
After 13 months of marriage, Marshall died of natural causes in August 1995.
In the late 90's, Smith was a tabloid staple due to her wild lifestyle and a red-carpet favorite with her buxom blonde looks, low-cut dresses and penchant for flashing paparazzi.
Smith's drug use spiraled out of control and her mother believes the celebrity persona of Anna Nicole began to take over.
'She had a big problem with drugs and the more she took, the more she wanted,' Arthur said.
She also expressed her desire to see her granddaughter, Danielynn Birkhead, Anna Nicole's only daughter - by Larry Birkhead (pictured left - who is now 12 (pictured in 2006)
Arthur said it was hard to believe that a decade has passed since both the death of her daughter and grandson, Daniel Smith, Anna Nicole's first son
'You could tell the difference between Anna Nicole and Vickie Lynn. Anna was very mean, I don't know how to explain her. On drugs, she was a terrible person to be around.'
She added: 'It was hard to approve of anything Vickie did because she was so different from any of my other children.
'She didn't explain things well, I couldn't understand being naked and throwing yourself at men.
Arthur once confronted her daughter over the outlandish stories she told about her apparent penniless upbringing.
'She said, 'Momma, please try and understand. I want to make money and I want to be noticed. So these stories that I tell, momma, but it's not about you, it's about me.'
Arthur denied that she and her daughter were estranged in the years before she died.
'We were never estranged, I didn't even know that word until I heard it on TV,' Arthur said.
'She always called, she might not have come to see me but she called and she wrote me letters, she sent me pictures of her and Danny. I went down there and visited her a couple of times in California.'
Smith announced she was pregnant in 2006, kicking off a paternity battle when four of her alleged lovers came forward claiming they could be the father: Smith's boyfriend, photographer Larry Birkhead; her lawyer Howard K Stern; a previous boyfriend Mark Hatten and, most bizarrely, Zsa Gabor's husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, who claimed to have had a ten-year affair with her.
'A lot of men stood up and said it could have been theirs,' her mother said.
While pregnant, Smith moved to the Bahamas with Birkhead, her entourage and her lawyer – and later partner – Howard K. Stern. She exchanged vows with Stern at a commitment ceremony in the Caribbean.
Anna Nicole found the notoriety she desired when in 1991, she met octogenarian billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall
Smith gave birth to daughter Dannielynn on September 7, 2006.
Arthur said: 'She was a beautiful little girl and Vickie always wanted a girl. When Danny was born, she was a little disappointed because he wasn't a girl.
Three days after Dannielynn's birth, Smith's happiness was destroyed by the shocking death of her 20-year-old son Daniel who died in her hospital room.
The 20-year-old suffered an accidental overdose of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro. During his funeral, a distraught Smith even tried to jump in his coffin. Many of those close to her believe that her beloved son's death set her on a disastrous path of unfettered drug use.
Arthur found out about her daughter's death on TV while recuperating from an illness at home.
'I was recovering from an aneurysm and I still didn't have all my senses correctly,' she said. 'When I saw it on TV that she had died, I couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it.
'My husband and son came running in to keep me from seeing it but I had already seen it.
'I said, it's a lie. It didn't really happen. It didn't. Danny's gone and now Vickie's gone? And I told her to be ever so careful about her friends that were about her - because they are not all friends.'
Various court cases followed her death as those close to her battled over her burial place and the paternity of her daughter.
Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel, and mom, Virgie Arthur. Virgie raised Daniel for the first eight years of his life
Daniel suffered an accidental overdose of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro. During his funeral, a distraught Smith even tried to jump in his coffin
At the time of the birth, Smith had insisted the child's father was Howard Stern and had his name placed on the birth certificate. Birkhead took Dannielynn to live with him in Louisville, Kentucky where he raises her alone.
Arthur says that although Birkhead has called to tell her about her granddaughter and sent pictures, she has been unable to see her. She begged Birkhead to allow Smith's family to build relationships with the ten-year-old, who she hasn't seen since 2010.
She said: 'I want to be part of Dannielynn's life. She is my daughter's child and the only one left in that line of lives. Vickie's daddy is dead, her husband is dead and her first husband is dead, his parents are dead. They have all passed away.
'[Dannielynn] never has got to know any of them. It's not fair to her not to know her mother's side of the family.
She told Birkhead: 'She needs to know and one day, she will. One day, you will have problems with her and she'll find where we're at and she will come to find us to talk about her mother.
'That's something you need to know, one day, she'll come look for her mother's people. Although you've never let us be a part of her life, we're still here. And one day she will come to find us.'
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ShareShe added: 'Vickie Lynn was very curious and Dannielynn will be too. Every daughter wants to know their mother.'
Virgie worked as a sheriff's deputy in Houston, Texas, where her daughter shot to fame as a Playboy centerfold
Anna Nicole Smith and mom Virgie Arthur
Birkhead told Inside Edition last week that he had no rift with Arthur. He said: 'I've never talked about that before, but I get hurt by that headline. Anna's mom has seen Dannielynn, she's seen her a few times. I say that only because I want the story to stop.
'If Anna's mom wants to see Dannielynn, she knows how to get a hold of me and she can call me anytime.'
Arthur is desperate to share memories with Dannielynn of how much her mother loved her.
'I would tell her how much I love her and how much her mother loved her even before she was born,' Arthur said.
'She bought her clothes and toys and anything that a little baby girl could wear, she had it. She anticipated having that baby.'
The grandmother appealed to her granddaughter directly.
'Dannielynn - meemaw loves you with all her heart. You have a lot of your momma in you and you have a lot of family here in Texas - uncles and aunts and cousins that you've never got to see.
'I hope that one day you will come find us, baby, and you can see how your momma lived and what fun she was. You can meet her brother, David, and her other brother, Donald Jr, and see what a great family she has. And that's who she grew up with.'
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