Alright Anna Nicole Smith's Case Goes to the Supreme Court
- From: "David Halpern" <photonicbandgap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:58:19 -0700
US Supreme Court or bust for Anna Nicole Smith
Wed Sep 28, 8:45 AM ET
The rollicking tale of Playboy playmate and ex-stripper Anna Nicole Smith
snatched top billing in the staid and sober US Supreme Court, after justices
said they would hear the outrageous reality star's multi-million dollar
inheritance claim.
The case, due to come up early next year, is the culmination of a fierce
legal tussle between Smith and the son of her late billionaire oil magnate
husband Howard Marshall, which has daubed US gossip columns in a trail of
sleaze and scandal.
Marshall died, aged 90 in 1995, four years after meeting the busty
Texas-born bombshell, then a 26-year-old topless dancer working under her
real name Vickie Lynn, in Houston's "Gigi" nightclub.
Smith who has splashed herself across a Playboy centerfold and dubbed her
recent uncensored cable show "America's Guiltiest Pleasure" was awarded an
88.5 million dollar slice of her husband's 1.6 billion dollar estate in
2002.
Her lawyers argue that California's Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
was wrong last year to overturn the stipend on the grounds that the District
court judge who made the huge award had no jurisdiction over the case.
Smith also claims Marshall's son Pierce has maliciously sought to cut her
out of a share of her late husband's wealth.
Pierce in return claims he is his father's sole heir, has branded Smith's
demands "extravagant" and always disputed her earlier claim that his father
promised her half his fortune.
Justices are expected to make a ruling on the case by mid-2006, and must
decide the legal conundrum of how much jurisdiction federal courts hold over
state probate matters.
Smith has carved a reputation as a bawdy, airheaded blonde with a string of
outrageous public appearances and became one of those celebrities simply
famous for being famous.
Her reality show which debuted in 2002, was panned by critics as "a historic
disaster" and a "train wreck" but won cult status as Smith, who at times
seemed barely coherent, blundered from one misadventure to another, with her
prozac-popping poodle Sugar Pie.
Smith appeared on the cover of Playboy in 1992, an appearance that helped
her land a modelling contract with Guess jeans, before she was named the
erotic magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1993.
When Smith won her original 88 million dollar settlement in March 2002, her
lawyer Philip Boesch declared "this is a complete victory for my client, and
I think it's a victory for a husband's love for his wife."
Judge David Carter ruled in the case, in which Smith was often lambasted by
opposing attorneys as a "golddigger", that Marshall was a "sickly" old man
and his bride-to-be was a "vibrant" young woman when they met.
He found that Smith eventually agreed to marriage after being plied with
gifts, though was concerned that wedlock could harm her burgeoning modelling
career.
"Their lives were intertwined in need, driven by greed and lust.
Nevertheless, the court is convinced of his love for her," Carter wrote in
his judgement.
Have not Millions of gun owners waited for 76 years for the U.S. Supreme
Court to hear a 2nd Amendment case?
Yet that trashy bitch (who is incidentally another example of white trash
from Arkansas Re: Bill Clinton) gets her case granted certiorari on how she
can rob an estate of anywhere from $88 Million to $500 Million Dollars.
Jeez talk about Justice and everyone being equal under the law in
America.....
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