Half a million paid for Anna Nicole Smith diaries

Anna Nicole Smith says she hates sex, just one of the private thoughts revealed in her diaries, which were recently auctioned off and bought by a German businessman.

Two diaries, written in 1992 and 1994, by the late Playboy model were sold at an eBay auction Thursday for more than $500,000 US in total.

Thomas Riccio, a partner in the auction house that handled the sale, said the buyer wished to remain anonymous: "He's associated with a news agency," said Riccio.

Riccio said the buyer will try to sell the information in the diaries as well as rights to publish photos of the pages.

The 39-year-old was found dead Feb. 8 at a hotel in Hollywood, Fla. The cause of her death is expected to be revealed on Monday by Joshua Perper, medical examiner for Florida's Broward County. She was buried in the Bahamas March 2.

Smith's life has been compared to a soap opera. At least three men have laid claim to being the father of her infant daughter.Her dazed appearances, slurred speech and outrageous behaviour on television shows made her tabloid fodder.

Last September, her 20-year-old son Daniel from her first marriage to a high school sweetheart died suddenly while visiting her in the Bahamas after the birth of her daughter.

Riccio says the diaries, full of misspellings, reveal a complicated and confused woman.

'I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex.' Anna Nicole Smith in her 1992 diary

"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."

Smith also writes about Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 and who died 14 months later.

"My husbands very weak. Theres nothing I can do," she wrote. "I want each hour to comfort him with medicines and prayers."

"It was an 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."

The diaries came to light a few years ago after a cleaner discovered them while doing work in a Los Angeles house where Smith had stayed. He sold them to a collector in Hollywood who came forward with the diaries after Smith died.