Who is this Anna Nichole Smith

I guess some one famous died recently, some blond woman named Anna Nichole Smith. I have never hear of her before, but I guess she must of been important because for two weeks straight it has been nothing but stories about her death and her two suitors fighting over who will get the body and the money. For some reason I just don't care, even if she had found a way to cure blindness, AIDS, and delivered peace to the world when she was alive.