Ach du lieber! Anna Nicole journals fetch $500K

By Stone Martindale Mar 24, 2007, 17:29 GMT

Anna Nicole Smith REUTERS/Chris Kleponis

Even in death the Texas stripper earns the dough.  Anna Nicole Smith's private meanderings in print on sex, men, life, partying and even her dead cat have been sold to a rich German for more than $500,000, an auction house official said.

Smith's handwritten 1992 diary was sold for $282,500 and her 1994 diary went for $230,000 in an eBay auction on Thursday, plus a 20 percent buyer's premium.

CNN reports that the buyer was an anonymous German businessman who planned to sell the information in the diary to various media outlets and then probably will resell them by the end of the year, said Thomas Riccio, a partner in Universal Rarities, the Corona-based auction house that handled the sale.

"He's associated with a news agency" that will sell the information, Riccio said.

The ramblings could be worth more than $1 million alone, including the rights to publish scanned photos of the pages which contain all sorts of grammatical carnage, according to Riccio.

Her 1992 diary consists of 26 entries from January to August while the 1994 one contains about 30 pages from January to July, Riccio said.

"I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex," she says in a 1992 entry.

"She had a pregnancy scare and she didn't know who the father was," Riccio said. "She talks about all the crazy partying she did with her mother ... every day's a new soap opera."  She falls in and out of love but "she seemed to always be in love with her son," he said.

"It was a okay day," she wrote of June 11, 1992. "I had lunch with Howard. Someone ran over my cat yesterday. I was real sad. Clay came over last nite and gave me some sleeping pills."

CNN reports that the journals were offered by a group of investors who bought them from a Los Angeles memorabilia shop owner, who bought them years ago when Smith got rid of them, Riccio said.