Stage set for Anna Nicole: The Opera

THE life of Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith is to be turned into an opera. The production, co-written by a creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera, will be staged at the Royal Opera House, London, next year. Smith died in 2007 aged 39.

The actress fought a long battle over the estate of her late husband, an oil tycoon who was 89 when they married.