Anna Nicole Smith : Howard wanted me to inherit
Anna Nicole Smith would never give up fighting in court for the inheritance she claims her late husband wanted her to have.
Anna Nicole Smith has declared, for Contactmusic, she didn’t marry Howard J. Marshall in 1994 for money.She said she wishe Howard J. was still alive today.
"I just wish he were still alive. I'm battling for him. I am doing it for Howard. And I am doing it for my 19-year-old son Daniel", Nicole Smith said.
"I hope justice will prevail. Howard would be proud that I didn't give up", the former Playboy star added.
Anna Nicole Smith made appeal to the Superior Court for a piece of her husband’s estate and is to be heard by the US Superior Court.
Smith has been battling E. Pierce Marshall in court ever since her husband of one year, 89-year-old Texas oil baron J. Howard Marshall II, died in 1995.
In her early 20s, Smith had a variety of low-paying jobs, to support her son Daniel.
When Nicole Smith worked as exotic dancer, she met oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, a frequen client of her work's place. With Marshall’s money, Anna Nicole Smith had cosmetic surgery to increase her breast size.
They were married on June 27, 1994. Then Anna Nicole Smith was 26 year old, while Marshall was 89. By most accounts, Anna Nicole had other boyfriends and was generally indifferent to Marshall, with whom she never lived.
Soon, after J. Howard's death on August 4, 1995, Nicole Smith squared off against his son, E. Pierce Marshall, for half of her late husband's $1.6 billion estate. Although J. Howard was, according to his employees, crazy about her, he did not include her in his trust and will, which he updated weeks after their marriage.
Anna Nicole Smith has since September, 2000, $449,754,134 from Marshall, after judge awarded Smith at Los Angeles.
Pierce appealed, and in July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood vacated that award and ordered Anna Nicole to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce's legal team. In March 2002, she was awarded $88 million.
In December 2004, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the March 2002 decision, saying that Smith is not one of J. Howard Marshall's heirs. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in September of 2005 to hear the appeal of that decision.
Smith's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, told Associated Press that his client planned to be at the Supreme Court early next year, when her case would be heard. "She's very excited. She will be attending arguments — there's no question about that," he said.
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