Anna Nicole's diaries up for auction

Anna Nicole Smith's diaries are set to go under the hammer again - just weeks after a German businessman paid $500,000 (€374,000) at auction for the journals.

The unnamed buyer purchased the diaries and other mementos during an eBay Internet auction and he already thinks he can turn his acquisition into a money spinner by re-selling the items in Dallas, Texas - Smith's native state - later this month.

The two diaries, written in 1992 and 1994, were originally claimed by Anna Nicole's former neighbour when he noticed the tragic model's mother throwing memorabilia out as trash.

The journals feature Smith's recollections of her first meetings with bosses at Guess Jeans, where she signed her first major contract, and expressions of love towards her then-husband, oil tycoon J Howard Marshall, who died in 1995.