9th Circuit: No Oil Millions for Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate
will get none of the more than $300 million the late
model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant
to leave her after he died. The ruling came in a 15-year legal battle
that started in a sleepy Houston probate court and stretched all the way
to the U.S. Supreme Court. It initially pitted Smith against the son of
J. Howard Marshall over the $1.6 billion estate the oil tycoon left
after his 1995 death.
