Anna Nicole-Smith to be turned into opera

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Anna Nicole-Smith to be turned into opera

384852044_165aa145cf The lurid and tragic life of busty Texan, Anna Nicole-Smith, is to be made into a Covent Garden opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, ready for 2011. The former Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken worker and strip club dancer entered the world’s consciousness when she married the 89-year-old gazillionaire type, J Howard Marshall, at the tender age of 26. “It is not going to be a horrible, sleazy evening,” Elaine Padmore, Covent Garden’s director of opera told the Guardian. “It is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad.”Following his death, Smith fought her way through the courts for what she argued was her inheritance. Then she scored a reality TV show; became extremely overweight; had liposuction; gave birth to a daughter of uncertain paternity; lost her son to a methadone overdose and five months later was dead herself