See Why Vanity’s Ex Husband Just Got Sentenced To 3 Life Terms In Prison

Posted On : January 26, 2016

Denise "Vanity" Matthews with her then husband, Anthony Smith good with their marriage though. Here is what was reported by GQ Magazine about their tumultuous relationship:

After reading an article about the young Raider, Denise Matthews, a.k.a. Vanity, now a born-again Christian, arranged a meeting with Anthony, eight years her junior. Three days later she proposed to him, and one month after they met, he made her his second wife. (He’d had a brief marriage to a young actress a few years earlier.) But this new marriage, too, quickly turned to dust, recalls Dwayne Simon, a friend of Anthony’s from that time. Dwayne remembers one uncomfortable team-family breakfast before a Raiders game when Denise said or did something that made Anthony furious. “He grabbed her by the arm, made her sit down,” says Dwayne, a producer with the L.A. Posse and Def Jam who arranged music for Raiders games. “She tried to get up, but he snatched her back down: ‘Get down!’ I was really scared for Vanity. I thought he was going to break her friggin’ arm.”

At the same time, Smith was telling one of his rich-white-businessman friends that he had helped Denise get a kidney. (Her body was hard hit from years of drug use before she swore off that life and turned to God.) What a good guy. What an angry one. Was one of those Anthonys more true than the other? Or had he just become a violent man who knew how to shine?

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It’s a good thing Vanity got away from Anthony before things escalated to the point of no return.

After he and Vanity divorced, Anthony married his third and current wife, attorney Theresa White. Theresa had previously supported Anthony in his past trials, but in his most recent murder trials, there was no one there for Anthony, except his defense attorney. The families and children of the murder victims were in the court rooom in full effect though. Friends and family of Anthony Smith reported in the past that he’d changed a lot and had isolated most of them from his life and befriended gangsters instead.

He is now serving three life terms without the possibility of parole and his attorneys say they plan to appeal the decision.

Denise “Vanity” Matthews has turned her life around and is now an evangelist, who still has serious health issues stemming from her past drug addictions.

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