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Anna Nicole Smith began dating Mark Hatten in 2000, according to TMZ. Smith met Hatten “shortly before the March 2000 Academy Awards,” according to her court testimony, repeated by the Los Angeles Times. Hatten was an “artist” who also worked to promote auto dealerships and Smith said she “began a sexual relationship with him ‘around Oscar time’ that year.”
In a 2017 interview with In Touch, Hatten gave his own account of how he met the former Playmate. Hatten said Smith was best friends with his sister, Jackie Hatten, saying the two women met in 1992. Hatten admitted to being married at the time to another woman, but when they ended things, his sister helped the relationship take off. Hatten and Smith first met at an Italian restaurant and, according to In Touch, he claims that the first time Smith saw Hatten, she said: “Oh my God, I want to have a baby with you!”
While things started out so optimistically between Smith and Hatten, the relationship got rocky really quickly and even involved violence, police calls, and prison time.
Written by: Nicki
