[OT] John Roberts First Case: Anna Nicole Smith

By Julie KellerTue - E! Online
Sep 27, 4:13 PM ET

Anna Nicole Smith is moving up in the world...all the way up to the Supreme
Court.

The nation's highest court has agreed to hear the ditzy former Playboy
Playmate's final appeal in the case of her late husband's billion-dollar
estate.

Smith met husband J. Howard Marshall II, an 89-year-old oil tycoon, as a
twentysomething topless dancer in Texas in the early 1990s. The May-December
couple married in 1994, and when he died in 1995, a drawn-out legal battle
over his estate ensued between the buxom blonde and Marshall's son, E.
Pierce Marshall.

In 2002, a California court awarded the TrimSpa spokesmodel a whopping $88.6
million in compensatory and punitive damages for what it called a campaign
of deceit and dishonesty, spearheaded by her would-be stepson, to keep her
away from the estate. (The initial reward of $474 million was knocked down
significantly by the judge.)

Then, an appeals court in Texas overruled the payoff, claiming a California
federal judge didn't have jurisdiction in the case, and dubbed E. Pierce
Marshall the sole heir since Smith was not named in the will. An appeal from
the Smith camp that tried to reinstate the payoff was then denied in
February.

Legal experts assumed the case was over and that the Supreme Court would
refuse to grant Smith and Co. an audience. They were mistaken.

The legal battle has now reached the highest court in the land. Smith's team
is understandably thrilled to get another shot at the cash, while Marshall's
lawyers argued that the appeal should be rejected.

Either way, the justices will probably hear arguments in the case in January
and make a ruling by the end of June.


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