Girls gone wild dominate celebrity headlines in 2007

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A crop of girls gone wild dominated the celebrity headlines this year but the death of former Playmate Anna-Nicole Smith loomed over them all like a platinum-blonde cautionary tale.

Pop-music stars, Hollywood actresses, the talented and the talent-less all found themselves in the news for the wrong reasons in 2007, when the theory that there is no such thing as bad publicity was severely tested.

Smith's death from an accidental drug overdose in a Florida hotel room in February at the age of 39 sparked a worldwide media frenzy, even if no-one could explain precisely why.

Famed for her marriage to an octogenarian oil tycoon in 1994, Smith once appeared to be on the road to supermodel status after she replaced Claudia Schiffer as a Guess...