Tohono O'odham With Love

"Sometimes I felt like I was being used, and it left a bad taste in my mouth," says Soto. "But I was just as guilty as she was. The only whites I'd ever had sex with were prostitutes, and I couldn't get enough of Anna Nicole. I fell under her spell. I did whatever she asked."

That meant enduring Anna Nicole's singing the un-PC Disney song, "What Made the Red Man Red," from Peter Pan, as they took a bubble bath together. Or complying with her insistence that he perform an "Injun yell," as she called it, when he climaxed. When he told her about the decadent deliciousness of Indian fry bread, she had to sample some. So he and Smith took her limo to the Fry Bread House at Seventh Avenue and Indian School Road. They pigged out on the honey- and sugar-topped fried confections in the car after the driver bought a mess of them for the pair. On the way back to Sanctuary, they gorged themselves, then made love behind the black windows of the limo.

Weeks turned into a month. The 2001 February issue of Playboy featured Anna Nicole on the cover as the "$450,000,000 Playmate." And Smith noticed that her period was late. Soto never used condoms with his voluptuous mistress, trusting in the "rhythm method" of birth control that she swore by. But a home pregnancy test soon revealed that Smith was pregnant with Soto's child, and she was fearful of how Howard K. Stern might react, or how it might affect several lucrative modeling and entertainment contracts coming down the pike, including negotiations with the E! Channel for what would become The Anna Nicole Show. Stern called her constantly to offer updates on business transactions, scheduling, and so forth, or to just keep tabs on her. Now each time the phone rang, Smith seemed rattled, fearful, and annoyed.

Soto suggested an abortion, but Smith was brought up Southern Baptist and would have none of it. She believed abortion was a mortal sin. However, she was afraid the sometimes Svengali-like Stern would force her to abort the fetus. In a panic, she began consuming mass quantities of ice cream, Twinkies, whole pies and cakes. Already, by the time she left for Los Angeles to see her Beverly Hills gynecologist, she'd packed on 10 extra pounds. During the limo ride to Sky Harbor International Airport, she wept mascara-streaking tears, like a much better-looking Tammy Faye Baker. She declared her undying love for Soto, and swore they would be together as soon as circumstances allowed.

"I was stupid and kind of believed her," Soto admits. "But once her flight took off, I felt like something had ended. On the ride to the airport was the first time I saw her take drugs — a handful of Vicodin she washed down with vodka from the limo bar. She never did that while she was at the resort. I told her she had to be careful because of the baby, but she said it was just because plane flights made her nervous. Little did I know."

Anna Nicole Smith's ravenous lust when it came to both sexes was evident both on The Anna Nicole Show and off-camera, if we're to believe the gossipy tell-all pieces that run in the National Enquirer, People, and In Touch. The National Enquirer recently quoted former Smith personal assistant Nathan Collins as stating that "Anna loved sex with both men and women," and he told of Smith picking up male barkeeps, bodyguards and Marines for one-night stands. It's also been written that Smith had her way with more than one Chippendale's dancer while E! was filming an episode of her show in Las Vegas. Her trip afterward to a Sin City strip club with Stern and her then personal assistant, Kimmie, turned into a near-orgy, with Smith fondling the breasts of the nude dancers on camera. She was uninhibited and rapacious. Back in February 2000, the now-defunct New Times L.A. broke the randy tale of Houston lesbian Sandi Powledge and the love shack she kept with Anna Nicole as the white-trash bombshell serviced her octogenarian sugar-daddy-turned-spouse J. Howard Marshall II. And just weeks ago, Zsa Zsa hubby and Smith paramour Prince Frederic von Anhalt claimed in an interview that 20 to 30 men could lay claim to being the father of Anna Nicole's Dannielynn.

But only one man can lay claim to being Marshall Soto's father, and he has boxes of receipts and documents proving his assertion that his son is also the son of Anna Nicole Smith.

Aside from a birth certificate from Burbank's Providence Saint Joseph's Hospital listing Anna Nicole as the mother of one Marshall Black Deer Soto, there are numerous boarding passes for round-trip flights from Phoenix to Burbank. Smith would ensconce Soto at the Safari Inn Motel on Olive Avenue, close by the NBC studio where the Tonight Show's filmed. Being pregnant made her horny for Soto, as she told him. No one else would do.

"I knew we weren't exclusive, that she was having affairs," says Soto. "But I wanted to be with the mother of my child."