This is not a good week to be closely associated with Anna Nicole Smith. First, her doctors and onetime lawyer-lover feel the full weight of the legal system. Now comes word that the late model’s father,Donald Hogan, has died after a battle with lung cancer.

Hogan’s other daughter and Smith’s half-sister, Amy Chapman Hogan, told E! News that “he had a lump in his chest that kept giving him a lot of pain. But for some reason the X-rays didn’t find it. By the time the doctors diagnosed he was in the last stages of lung cancer.