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Vickie Lynn Marshall (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith,[1] was an American model and television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans. She starred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show.
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No one but Anna Nicole has ever testified to J. Howard's verbal promise of a gift. But Carter found that J. Howard had made some preliminary efforts through his lawyers to draw up a new trust for Anna Nicole's benefit. Pierce was worried enough about the situation to send a private investigator to California to make sure Anna Nicole and J. Howard wouldn't draw up a new will while they were there.
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Thirteen months after his marriage to Smith, Marshall died on August 4, 1995, in Houston. the ensuing court battle over his estate, which involved Smith and James Howard Marshall III (both of whom were not mentioned in the will) and E. Pierce Marshall, who was left the bulk of J. Howard Marshall’s assets. The case has resulted in several judicial decisions that have gone for and against Smith, eventually making its way into federal court. At one point Smith was awarded $474 million, and then $89 million, far short of J. Marshall’s $1.6 billion fortune. (At one point, the US Supreme Court was involved, eventually passing a unanimous decision in 2006 that Smith had a right to pursue a share of the estate in federal court).
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Smith claimed J. Howard orally promised her half of his estate if she married him. In September 2000, a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded her $449,754,134. In July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood affirmed the jury findings in the probate case by ruling that Smith was entitled to nothing and ordered Smith to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce's legal team. The conflict between the Texas probate court and California bankruptcy court judgments forced the matter into federal court.[25]
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Anna has been involved in an ongoing battle to inherit part of her late husband’s oil fortune. At the time of their marriage, Anna was just 26 and J. Howard Marshall II was 89. After his death, she was awarded $474 million by a federal judge but the case was later dismissed by a federal appeals court. She continues to battle for a share of the fortune with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall.
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In 1994, Ms. Smith married J. Howard Marshall II, a Texas oil billionaire and former professor of trusts and estates at Yale Law School whom she had met in the course of her dancing career. She was 26; he was 89. Married life for Ms. Smith was a bounteous stream of clothes and jewelry.
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