Posts with tag "Supreme Court"

Supreme Court Rules Against Anna Nicole Smith Estate

Posted Jun 24th 2011 at 10:01 AM by Marc Schneider

The long, sad, and convoluted saga of Anna Nicole Smith versus the estate of her late husband is over. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Smith's estate, which long-argued that she was promised $300 million dollars from oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall, who married the bombshell model when he was 89 to her 26 years. Marshall's will gave his $1.6 billion fortune to his son, and the high court ...

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Supreme Court to Hear Anna Nicole Smith Case

Posted Sep 28th 2010 at 11:20 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

The Supreme Court will decide whether the estate of Anna Nicole Smith should get part of the fortune left behind by the elderly Texas billionaire whom Smith married in the mid-1990s. The justices on Tuesday decided to reconsider an appeals court ruling against Smith's estate, which wants to capture some of the $1.6 billion estate of her husband, J. Howard Marshall, who died in 1995. Marshall's ...