Would you marry Anna Nicole Smith if someone paid you?

[Dr Bunsen]

Anna Nicole Smith wins round in Supreme Court

By David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON . Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy Playmate and widow of a Texas oil billionaire, won a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court on Monday that clears the way for her to claim as much as $500 million from her late husband's estate.

But the decision does not finally resolve the 11-year-old legal dispute, which has bounced back and forth between the state courts of Texas and the federal courts in California.

The court battle has been fought over who lied and schemed to get shares of the estate of J. Howard Marshall: his son or his widow. Marshall was 89 years old and worth an estimated $1.6 billion in 1994 when he married the 26-year-old former stripper. He died a year later, and the fight was on.

A Texas court backed the oilman's son, E. Pierce Marshall, but a federal bankruptcy judge backed Smith.

In a victory for the widow, the Supreme Court tossed out a decision saying federal judges had no authority to decide a lawsuit she brought against her stepson. She claimed he schemed and forged documents to deprive her of a huge gift her husband promised her before his death.

Despite his loss Monday, Pierce Marshall vowed to fight on. "I will fight to clear my name in California federal court. That is a promise [she] and her lawyers can take to the bank," he said.

So far, both sides have taken plenty of money to their lawyers, not to the bank. Experts in bankruptcy law agreed the battle will drag on.

"There is a long way to go between here and her ability to collect any money judgment against Pierce Marshall," said Craig Goldblatt, a Washington lawyer who filed a court brief on behalf of experts in bankruptcy.

That is because the Supreme Court did not decide whether the Texas court or the federal bankruptcy court in California handed down the first decision. Usually, when judges are dueling over who gets to decide an issue, the first ruling is honored in the end.

After the death of Marshall, his will was probated in a Texas court, which agreed he intended to leave his estate entirely to E. Pierce Marshall.

Meanwhile, in a separate suit brought in a bankruptcy court in Los Angeles, Smith alleged the billionaire's son had . before her husband's death . schemed to deny her what she had been promised. She had filed for bankruptcy for unrelated reasons. She emerged with a judgment that the widow . Vickie Lynn Marshall in court and Anna Nicole Smith on stage . was due $474 million from her late husband's estate.

Since then, the courts have been trying to decide which ruling should be honored: the Texas probate order or the federal bankruptcy decision.

Two years ago, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco threw out Smith's award entirely and said federal judges had no right to intervene in any matter involving a state's probate of an estate.

That ruling threatened to crimp the power of federal courts on several fronts. For example, the Internal Revenue Service often goes to federal court to seek taxes that are owed by an estate. For that reason, the Justice Department entered the case of Marshall v. Marshall on the side of Smith.

On Monday, the Supreme Court called the 9th Circuit's decision a mistake. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Smith had sued over a kind of fraud that deprived her of a gift. She was not contesting the terms of her late husband's will.

But having revived her claim, the court sent the case back to the 9th Circuit. It must decide whether Smith's suit was properly in a bankruptcy court in the first place.

Los Angeles lawyer Kent Richland, who represented Smith, said he was pleased by the Supreme Court's ruling but acknowledged a legal battle remained.

He will argue that the bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles was the first to rule on Smith's claim that she had been cheated, and for that reason, its decision is first.

Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company

[Dr Bunsen]

Anna Nicole Smith is a deeply unattractive woman in my opinion, I really don't know what the fuss is about! Just the thought of her as a pin-up makes me wretch! Yuck...

[globalloon]

don't think I could marry someone for money, especially not a vacuous moo like that

you can't buy happiness

[raverbaby]

Its this sort of conflict that tears families apart. In my area there is a group of landowners that are all related, and have a net worth of probably around 100mil. But after the father of the brothers died, the lump sum of the money and land was given to a younger more responsible brother and in turn this has caused them years of grief and hassle over who the money rightly belongs to, Needless to say a large chunk of what thy are fighting over has been scwandered on legal costs. Its a shame really how dellusions of grandure can tear families apart.

[Raj]

in fact at this rate it will all go in legal costs; maybe they should settle out of court?
:bigsmile: hahaha

[raverbaby]

Its this sort of conflict that tears families apart. In my area there is a group of landowners that are all related, and have a net worth of probably around 100mil. But after the father of the brothers died, the lump sum of the money and land was given to a younger more responsible brother and in turn this has caused them years of grief and hassle over who the money rightly belongs to, Needless to say a large chunk of what thy are fighting over has been scwandered on legal costs. Its a shame really how dellusions of grandure can tear families apart.

Its finally bin setteled out of court and one of them is leaving the country to live away from the others!

[Raj]

Its finally bin setteled out of court and one of them is leaving the country to live away from the others!

sensible move on their part:alien_abd

[Tank Girl]

depends on how much I was being paid!!!!

No honestly she is hiddeous and portrays such a negative image of women (i go off to burn my bra.....(again)) :rant:

[Tank Girl]

also money and death........................
My 'so called w*nker' of an 'uncle' Fred (who I've seen ? 3 times in my life),
didn't speak to his brother Bern for 37 years, and unfortunatley when Bern died (and hadn't left a will) Fred crept out of the woodwork and took his share of the inheritance (as it was by law shared between the surviving siblings)
utter words fail to describe my contempt for this person, well words I am able to post on this site......and he even took advantage of my aunt (who is unwell) and secured Berns house key and started 'nicking' stuff out the house ...:rant: :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
I hope some Karma kick's him in the ass!!

sorry!!! rant over

[PHARTY]

Anna Nicole Smith wins round in Supreme Court

By David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON . Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy Playmate and widow of a Texas oil billionaire, won a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court on Monday that clears the way for her to claim as much as $500 million from her late husband's estate.

But the decision does not finally resolve the 11-year-old legal dispute, which has bounced back and forth between the state courts of Texas and the federal courts in California.

The court battle has been fought over who lied and schemed to get shares of the estate of J. Howard Marshall: his son or his widow. Marshall was 89 years old and worth an estimated $1.6 billion in 1994 when he married the 26-year-old former stripper. He died a year later, and the fight was on.

A Texas court backed the oilman's son, E. Pierce Marshall, but a federal bankruptcy judge backed Smith.

In a victory for the widow, the Supreme Court tossed out a decision saying federal judges had no authority to decide a lawsuit she brought against her stepson. She claimed he schemed and forged documents to deprive her of a huge gift her husband promised her before his death.

Despite his loss Monday, Pierce Marshall vowed to fight on. "I will fight to clear my name in California federal court. That is a promise [she] and her lawyers can take to the bank," he said.

So far, both sides have taken plenty of money to their lawyers, not to the bank. Experts in bankruptcy law agreed the battle will drag on.

"There is a long way to go between here and her ability to collect any money judgment against Pierce Marshall," said Craig Goldblatt, a Washington lawyer who filed a court brief on behalf of experts in bankruptcy.

That is because the Supreme Court did not decide whether the Texas court or the federal bankruptcy court in California handed down the first decision. Usually, when judges are dueling over who gets to decide an issue, the first ruling is honored in the end.

After the death of Marshall, his will was probated in a Texas court, which agreed he intended to leave his estate entirely to E. Pierce Marshall.

Meanwhile, in a separate suit brought in a bankruptcy court in Los Angeles, Smith alleged the billionaire's son had . before her husband's death . schemed to deny her what she had been promised. She had filed for bankruptcy for unrelated reasons. She emerged with a judgment that the widow . Vickie Lynn Marshall in court and Anna Nicole Smith on stage . was due $474 million from her late husband's estate.

Since then, the courts have been trying to decide which ruling should be honored: the Texas probate order or the federal bankruptcy decision.

Two years ago, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco threw out Smith's award entirely and said federal judges had no right to intervene in any matter involving a state's probate of an estate.

That ruling threatened to crimp the power of federal courts on several fronts. For example, the Internal Revenue Service often goes to federal court to seek taxes that are owed by an estate. For that reason, the Justice Department entered the case of Marshall v. Marshall on the side of Smith.

On Monday, the Supreme Court called the 9th Circuit's decision a mistake. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Smith had sued over a kind of fraud that deprived her of a gift. She was not contesting the terms of her late husband's will.

But having revived her claim, the court sent the case back to the 9th Circuit. It must decide whether Smith's suit was properly in a bankruptcy court in the first place.

Los Angeles lawyer Kent Richland, who represented Smith, said he was pleased by the Supreme Court's ruling but acknowledged a legal battle remained.

He will argue that the bankruptcy judge in Los Angeles was the first to rule on Smith's claim that she had been cheated, and for that reason, its decision is first.

Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times CompanyI was married 2 Anna Nichol Smith once but I wasnt well endowed enough 4 her ............in the bank account department:groucho:

[PHARTY]

About that last post by my good self.. I was lying!.....................I have a MASSIVE BANK ACCOUNT!!!:wink:

[darkstar]

Anna Nicole Smith is a deeply unattractive woman in my opinion, I really don't know what the fuss is about! Just the thought of her as a pin-up makes me wretch! Yuck...


she is indeed a pig ....

[General Lighting]

well it seems like noone can now as she's brown bread...

[Dr Bunsen]

I just heard. How strange! Do you think she died of shame after reading this thread?

[quietRIOT]

...i think its really sad ...just read she died ....she s just had a baby a few months ago ...an her son died aged 20 a few months ago ...tragic .....money cant buy happiness people aint that da truth ....:group_hug :crazy_dru

[Dr Bunsen]

Anna Nicole Smith timeline

1993: Smith is named Playmate of the Year and officially becomes divorced from Billy Wayne.

1994: Smith marries J. Howard Marshall in Houston. He is 89; she is 26. She lands her first film role as Zsa-Zsa in "The Hudsucker Proxy."

1995: Marshall dies 14 months after their marriage. Within weeks Smith squares off against Marshall's son E. Pierce Marshall in court, claiming Marshall promised her half of his $1.6 billion estate.

2002: After some failed attempts at acting ("To the Limit," 1995, "Skyscraper," 1997), Smith follows in the footsteps of "The Osbournes" and gets her own reality television show: "The Anna Nicole Smith Show."

2004: "The Anna Nicole Smith Show" stops filming due to "creative differences." The show universally was panned by critics, but developed a cult following.

2003: Smith becomes the spokeswoman for TrimSpa and allegedly loses 69 pounds using the drug.

June 2006: Smith announces her pregnancy on her website but does not identify the father. Her longtime lawyer Howard K. Stern and her ex-boyfriend photographer Larry Birkhead both claim paternity.

September 2006: Smith's daughter Daniellyn is born at Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas. Three days later Smith's son Daniel is found dead in his mother's hospital room. Eighteen days after Daniel's death Smith exchanges rings with Stern at an informal "commitment ceremony" on a ship in the Bahamas.

Feb. 8, 2007: Smith collapses at the Florida Hard Rock Casino. According to reports, fire crews and emergency personnel performed CPR on Smith and insert a tube down her throat.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-spinoffs-smithtimeline8feb08,0,7036989.htmlstory

[Angel]

R.I.P

Anna Nicole Smith :hopeless:

Terrible news for her family :group_hug

[hedmekanik]

Hmmm. Spooky, seeing as she's popped her stilleto's.
What a surreal life, though.

[cheeseweasel]

I'd still marry her for the right price.

[Dr Bunsen]

Potential fathers seem to be lining up including her now long dead 90 year old husband...

[General Lighting]

Potential fathers seem to be lining up including her now long dead 90 year old husband...

is that because the kid inherits her money? interesting case of karma coming back round if thats so...

[Dr Bunsen]

It looks that way...

[Angel]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1250946,00.html

A third man has claimed he might be the father of the late glamour model Anna Nicole Smith's baby.


Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, is set to step into a paternity battle for five-month-old Dannielyn.


Two other men have already laid claim to the little girl, who could inherit £270m.


Both Smith's partner Howard Stern, who is named on the birth certificate, and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead insist they are Dannielyn's father.


Meanwhile, an initial post-mortem examination into the former Playboy model's death has not revealed what killed her.


However, doctors said there was no evidence that either crime or drugs were involved in the 39-year-old's sudden death.


Smith was found unconscious at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, in Florida, by her private nurse on Thursday afternoon.


Her bodyguard and paramedics battled in vain to revive her, and she was later pronounced dead.


It was a shocking end to her traumatic life, which most recently saw her son Daniel, 20, dying three days after Dannielyn was born.


Dannielyn could inherit a fortune, if her mother's court fight over her late oil tycoon husband's estate is continued in her name.


Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who has been married to 90-year-old Gabor for more than 20 years, claimed he and Smith had been having an affair since the 1990s.

[Dr Bunsen]

I can't believe it's not Methadone!

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith was popping at least 10 different kinds of pills when she died in a Florida hotel - and had undergone at least two breast surgeries since giving birth five months ago, an explosive new report said yesterday.

The voluptuous diva became "very tired, very weak" after the last breast surgery and may have died from interactions among the numerous medications she took to ease the pain, MSNBC's Rita Cosby reported.

Used containers of pills littered Smith's bedside table at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, where the 39-year-old pinup died Thursday, Cosby said.

Authorities are still puzzling over exactly what killed the former Playboy centerfold model just five months after she gave birth to Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

But her iconic 42-26-38 body could have been stressed from at least two recent boob jobs, including one augmentation and another procedure designed to repair one of many previous operations, MSNBC said.



Even as the coroner probed Smith's death, her brash lawyer-boyfriend moved into the opulent mansion in the Bahamas where she had lived.

Attorney Howard K. Stern, who also claims to be Dannielynn's father, rolled into the sprawling waterfront estate called Horizons with the baby in tow.

Smith had claimed ex-boyfriend Ben Thompson gave her the house. But .Thompson said he had only lent it to Smith - and during the weekend had the locks changed.

After getting a court order in his favor, Stern promptly changed the locks again yesterday and called the cops to file a report about missing computer equipment, drawings and paintings that he said were snatched.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/496865p-418675c.html

[n.r.g]

i think its awful for her baby to loose ur brother and mother so soon in life and i think anna,s whole life is pretty tragic and no doubt she will now been seen as a marlyn type figure and that poor baby has to live with that stigma 4 life love her or hate her u,d have to have a heart of stone not to pity the baby in all this and i also think anna was more to be pityed then laughed at in life

[Raj]

Not only that but the baby will grow up being loved for her potential financial value not herself - no one deserves that :(

[marcusblanc]

to be fair nrg, Marilyn had talent, beauty, and shagged the kennedys, Anna Nicol had no talent, was kinda pretty, and shagged a (rich)pensioner! No comparison....

I think they both had boob jobs, tho. Yuk!

[marcusblanc]

Oh, in answer to the question, only if we get a move on...:groucho:

[Angel]

Found this in the San Fransisco Chronicle

She took a lot of drugs :hopeless:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/27/MNG9LOSGST1.DTL
An accidental prescription drug overdose killed Anna Nicole Smith last month, the medical examiner who performed her autopsy said Monday.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner, said he found traces of many drugs in Smith's body, including muscle relaxants, pain relievers such as methadone and several anti-anxiety medicines.

He described her cause of death as combined drug intoxication, the primary drug being the potent sedative chloral hydrate.

That drug also contributed to the 1962 overdose death of Smith's idol Marilyn Monroe.

An intestinal flu and a bacterial infection, possibly from an injection with a contaminated needle, were contributing factors, Perper said at a news conference in Dania Beach. No illegal drugs were found in her system.

A private nurse found the former Playboy centerfold, model and reality television star, unconscious on Feb. 8 in her suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.

After several resuscitation attempts, she was pronounced dead that afternoon at a nearby hospital.

Smith was 39 and still mourning her son, Daniel, 20, who died from a lethal drug combination last September, days after Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn.

Perper ruled out suicide as a cause. He said that according to her friends, Smith was in "outstanding general spirits" in the days preceding her trip from the Bahamas to South Florida for what was to be a four-night stay.

Before leaving the Bahamas on Feb. 5, she even had a dance lesson in preparation for a music video and an event for TrimSpa, a diet supplement she was paid to promote.

Chief Charlie Tiger of the Seminole Police Department said police found no apparent signs of foul play. The medical examiner also ruled Smith's death probably was not a suicide because people who take their own lives typically use much more lethal drugs than chloral hydrate.

Rather, he said, Smith might have been simply unaware that the sedative could be fatal in combination with multiple other prescriptions she was taking in normal doses for anxiety, depression and insomnia.

Perper would not identify the doctors who prescribed the various medications, saying it was a private matter. But he said that on the night she arrived in South Florida, Smith had a fever of 105, probably due to the infection she had from injecting "longevity drugs" -- a combination of vitamin B12, immunoglobulins and human growth hormone -- into her buttocks.

Smith refused to go to the emergency room that night; instead, she broke her fever in an ice bath, took antibiotics and flu medicine and went to sleep. She regained her strength over the next few days, Perper said, but kept taking chloral hydrate, a drug that was popular in the 19th century but is rarely prescribed these days, to get to sleep at night.

"When many drugs act together," he said, "they may often have unpredictable and dangerous effects."

After Smith's death, a court fight raged in Broward County over who should have control of her remains -- her companion at the time of her death, Howard K. Stern, or her mother. A judge ultimately gave custody of her body to the court-appointed guardian for her infant daughter, who had Smith buried next to her son in the Bahamas.

Court battles persist over who Dannielynn's biological father is and whether she is entitled to part of the estate of Smith's former husband, a Texas oil billionaire who died in 1995.

Drugs found in autopsy The following drugs were found in Anna Nicole Smith's body during the autopsy, according to the Broward County medical examiner:

Brand name (drug) indication
-- Ativan (lorazepam): anti-anxiety medication
-- Cipro (ciprofloxacin): antibiotic
-- Klonopin (clonazepam): anti-seizure medicine also used to treat anxiety
-- Methadone: strong painkiller, often used to suppress withdrawal from heroin
-- Noctec (chloral hydrate): sedative and sleeping medication
-- Robaxin (methocarbamol): muscle relaxant
-- Soma (meprobamate): muscle relaxant
-- Topamax (topiramate): anti-seizure medication also used to treat migraines
-- Tylenol (acetaminophen): pain reliever
-- Valium (diazepam): anti-anxiety medication, also used as a sedative and to treat seizures
She had also taken these around the time of her death, according to interviews and other evidence gathered by the medical examiner:
-- Benadryl (diphenhydramine): antihistamine
-- Human growth hormone: touted as a muscle-building, weight-reducing agent
-- Nicorette (nicotine polacrilex): used to quit smoking
-- Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate): anti-viral medicine
-- Vitamin B12: helps formation of red blood cells