WikiLeaks: Anna Nicole Smith "Enticed" Bahamians
Before her 2007 death, blond bombshell actress Anna Nicole Smith's "sordid affairs" in the Bahamas "enticed" locals and left a lasting effect on the island nation's political landscape.
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In a 2006 confidential cable titled "Hurricane Anna Nicole wreaks havoc in the Bahamas", the U.S. ambassador in Nassau recounted some "titillating details" of the scandals surrounding the former Playboy playmate, the Guardian newspaper of London reported Tuesday evening.
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"Not since Wallis Simpson dethroned a king and moved to Nassau has an American femme fatale so captivated the Bahamian public and dominated local politics than Anna Nicole Smith did during her time on the island," one cable reads.
Smith died of a drug overdose in a Florida hotel room in 2007. A Los Angeles jury in October found Smith's former boyfriend and her psychiatrist guilty of conspiracy after obtaining drugs for her in the last three years of her life.
During her life in the Bahamas, the embassy credited the actress, who starred in the farce "Naked Gun 33 1/3" and her own reality television show, of having a positive effect on the island nation, the Guardian reported.
Pictures of her "in a bedroom embrace" with the Bahamian immigration minister who approved her residency application in one month's time -- much faster than the year the process typically takes -- led to the previously popular official's resignation, the Guardian reported. A cable also said the scandal "revitalized" the local media, the Guardian reported.
"Not since the Category 4 Hurricane Betsy hit the island in 1965," a 2006 cable reads, "has one woman done as much damage in Nassau."
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