Captured: Rarely Seen Images Of Celebrities From The 1990s

The Cold War ended in 1991, and served as a signal of the dramatic cultural transformations to come around the world during that decade. People were excited for the new millennium, even if nobody knew how it would play out, especially with the Y2K chaos.

The following photos of celebrities throughout the 1990s show most stars had their own look and their own story to tell. These photos portray a time before the Internet connected everybody to everything at all times. These rarely seen photos of stars during the last decade before the new millennium will surely bring back feelings of nostalgia. There’s no better way to understand where these celebrities came from and learn new things about them, than by digging through the archives…

Anna Nicole Smith’s Odd Marriage

In a highly scrutinized act, 26-year-old Anna Nicole Smith married 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall in 1994. Smith married the octogenarian billionaire one year before his death. The couple had met in 1991 while she was performing at a strip club in Houston, and they had a two-year affair where Marshall gave Smith lavish gifts while supposedly asking her to marry him multiple times. She finally agreed and the two were wed back in Houston.

It goes without saying that Marshall’s children weren’t happy about Smith getting a cut of the inheritance. At the time, Smith claimed that she and Marshall had an oral agreement that she would receive half of his estate, which was worth approximately $1.6 billion. Since it wasn’t stated in his will, it never came to fruition.