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    Default Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    Wow, I thought this story was over a long time ago.... guess not:

    ANNA NICOLE SMITH, the former Playboy cover girl accused of being America’s most brazen gold-digger, will try to persuade the US Supreme Court next week that she should inherit millions of dollars from her late husband, a Texas billionaire who married her when he was 89 and she was 26.

    The judges of America’s highest court, a more cerebral audience than the stripper-turned-reality TV hostess usually entertains, informed Ms Smith yesterday that they will hear her appeal over the disputed fortune of her late husband, the wheelchair-bound oil tycoon John Howard Marshall II.

    The surgically enhanced Ms Smith has been embroiled in a legal battle for a decade over her late husband’s $1.6 billion estate (£900 million). The tycoon’s son, Pierce Marshall, along with most of America, accuses her of being a shameless gold-digger.

    If the Supreme Court sides with Ms Smith, the 1993 Playmate of the Year stands to gain as much as $474 million, the amount to which a judge in 2000 said she was entitled. Despite her initial victory, subsequent courts have overturned that decision, and Ms Smith, whose life has descended into a vaudevillian spectacle of weight problems and bizarre behaviour in recent years, has not received a cent from her late husband’s estate. The case has provided rich fodder for gossip columnists, but at issue for the judges is the more mundane question of whether federal courts have the right to overrule state probate courts.

    Ms Smith, now 37, met her husband, a crippled, frail billionaire who nevertheless still delighted in the company of buxom women young enough to be his grandchildren, when she was a stripper at a nightclub in Houston. Mr Marshall was a frequent visitor. They married three years later in 1994, with an age difference of 63 years.

    It was a union that produced one of the most startling celebrity photographs of the 1990s: Ms Smith, 26, her chest recently enlarged to an eye-catching 36-inch DD, passionately kissing her betrothed, the grey-skinned, wheelchair-bound Mr Marshall, a man who was to live less than a year.
    MORE: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...801105,00.html
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    Some things you don't know about J. Howard Marshall ...

    For example, ANS was not the first stripper Marshall had as a mistress. In 1982, when he was virtually a young buck of 78, he fell for a Texas stripper named "Lady Walker." He spent about $15 million in gifts and income support for her during their 9 years together. In 1991, Marshall's wife, Betty, died, as well as Lady Walker, who died from complications arising from face lift surgery.

    Although his wife died the same year, Marshall later recalled that the death of Lady Walker was the most tragic event of his life.

    He was devasted by Lady Walker's death and posthumous revelations that she had a long term relationship with another man while she was Marshall's mistress, and basically ready to die when his driver took him to the stip club where ANS worked to cheer him up. His relationship with ANS seemed to bring him back from the brink of death, and he told everyone how happy he was with her and wanted to marry her. Marshall liked strippers A LOT and the pattern with ANS was almost identical to the pattern with Lady Walker, although ANS was a lot better to him than Lady Walker.

    Marshall pursued ANS for three years, during which she rebuffed his proposals. ANS was discovered by Playboy and became national spokesperson and model for Guess Jeans BEFORE she consented to marrying Marshall.

    So it is a myth that ANS was impoverished white trash when she married Marshall. She waited until she became independently at least a little successful before she consented to marriage.
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    Default Re: Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    I absolutely cannot believe that they agreed to hear this case. I think of how many cases are brought to the highest court each year, only to be denied. Hmmmmmm... You would think she would get over it by now, but I guess there is a lot of $$ at stake. As much as I would almost always side with the woman... In this case I hope the kids keep it all. I truthfully can't stand her, not even a little bit. I mean how much of an ass can anyone continue to make of themselves before the pills wear off and you get a reality check???
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    Unless there was a prenup, and assuming that Texas law passes assets to the surviving spouse- why wouldn't she get the money?

    Would this be contested if she has married him as a mousy 26 year old librarian?

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    Default Re: Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    With almost $500 million at stake,I can see why she can't get over it.But then again,it's been 10 years since his passing.
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    Anyone know what grounds she didn't get the money on?

    Just BS? Last I heard, gold digging didn't have a bearing on the execution of a will.

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    Default Re: Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    Gah.. stripper turned reality show hostess?

    Surgically enhanced?

    Umm, okay.. but who cares? More than half the strippers who work regularly are as they so politely put it " surgically enhanced " one way or another.. This is just another bag on the chick that use to be a stripper. Anna Nicole Smith is dumb. Bless her heart. Perhaps she can't help it or perhaps it's an act and then we ( the people who believe she is dumb ) have been led on a very well planed out trail of .. well, dumbness. Highly unlikely but hey.. stranger things have happened. She took so many wonderful chances and just - screwed them all up into something worthless.

    At least she did okay with Trim Spa, then again, if her track record is evidence. She will screw that up to. My two cents worth.

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    Default Re: Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    It will be interesting to see what issues the SCourt believes that need to be addressed. There is a LOT of variance in state laws regarding inheritance. Possibly some important issues will be fixed. It is not Anna's plight herself; it is about the relevant laws.

    I could not hold a conversation with Anna, given the opportunity. Plus she is no longer of stripper quality....if that's what anyone is thinking.
    I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.

    Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.

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    Default Re: Stripper's claim to tycoon's £900m fortune reaches the highest court

    Legally speaking, the argument in question concerns Texas state inheritance law, and the rights of an executor of a will (the tycoon's son) to deviate from the wishes of the person who wrote the will - or to make decisions affecting the inheritance of potential heirs in the absence of specific provisions in that will.

    Real World wise, the press coverage angle will make this case the most popular in many years - with the 'Anna Nicole's huge assets' jokes and cleavage shots already catching major air time.

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    Ha ha, ANS is a gold-digger, but that guy had quite a personal history himself.



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    I'm waiting for stant's slant on this. I thought his sons once offered her 10 million or so to go away. If she does win, imagine all the gold-digger men who will be going after her. ...and i'll be happy to audition as a PL in the strip club scene of the TV/HBO version of ANS's life.
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    I thought his sons once offered her 10 million or so to go away
    Actually, I think it was six million ... which boils down to about a million dollars per month that she was married to the Fortune 500 Fossil !

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    Quote Originally Posted by threlayer
    It will be interesting to see what issues the SCourt believes that need to be addressed. There is a LOT of variance in state laws regarding inheritance. Possibly some important issues will be fixed. It is not Anna's plight herself; it is about the relevant laws....
    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    Legally speaking, the argument in question concerns Texas state inheritance law, and the rights of an executor of a will (the tycoon's son) to deviate from the wishes of the person who wrote the will - or to make decisions affecting the inheritance of potential heirs in the absence of specific provisions in that will....
    Umm, actually, none of the above. The Court took the case to decide the narrow issue of the scope of the so-called "probate exception" to Federal Jurisdiction. By way of background, ANS filed a probate proceeding in Texas State Court before the old man was even dead, asserting that court had jurisdiction and making all the same claims she latyer prevailed upon in Federal Bankruptcy Court in California. However, before that case couyld even go to trial (FYI - the old man had died in the interim), ANS, claiming to be a resident of California, filed a bankruptcy petition in Federal Bankruptcy Court in California, making the same claims in that court as she had made in the Texas State Court. Before the Texas State Court suit could go to trial, the bankruptcy court ruled in her favor. The Texas suit then wen t to trial, and ANS withdrew. The Texas jury zeroed her, and a probate judgment was entered against her in Texas State Court. On appeal, the bankruptcy judgment was set aside for lack of evidence and remanded. On remand, went from 474M to 88M. On appeal from that judgment, 9th Circuit ruled neither Bankruptcy Court nor U.S. District Court in California had jurisdiction to hear a Texas State probate matter, and that Texas Court's ruling controlled. ANS petitioned U.S. Supreme Court for cert and they granted her petition.

    The question is: "Why?" The 9th Circuit's ruling was widely presumed to be the end of the case, as it appeared to be both consistent with prior case law and fundamentally correct in all respects. However, cert courts don't generally grant to say "yep, that's right....." In any event, wherever they're going with this one thing's for sure: they won't be delving into the intracacies of Texas Probate law and/or trying to sort out the conflicting factual findings of the three courts below - their review will be limited to the issue of when, and under what circumstances it's appropriate for a Federal Court to decline to apply the "probate exception" and proceed to decide such matters in Federal Court.
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