Anna Nicole Clips

Posts Tagged ‘Billionaire J. Howard Marshall II’

Author: Traci Love

Last month, April 2010, the appeals court officials in Los Angeles turned down a request to reconsider their decision not to award ANNA NICOLE SMITH money from her late husband’s, J. Marshall Howard’s estate. The ruling was that Dannielynn Birkhead (now 3 1/2 yrs. old) is not entitled to oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall’s money ($1.6 billion estate).

Marshall willed his estate to his son, E. Pierce Marshall, which launched a ferocious legal battle over the family fortune. Lawyers have kept the fire going even after Pierce Marshall’s death in 2006 and Anna’s death in 2007. It is still continuing, although losing steam quickly.

Anna had always maintained that her late husband promised her the money during their 14-month marriage, which ended with the 89 yr. old’s death in 1995 from natural causes.

The lawyers filed papers at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California requesting the judges reverse the ruling or they will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
____________

On a personal note I truly believe that this lawsuit was the demise of Anna. It was the one motivating factor for all parties concerned in the roller coaster life she led. It picked up speed & ended with a huge crash. I believe that had she not had this potential money looming over her head and as a dangling carrot in front of unscrupulous lawyers, etc., she would have led a much different life.

She had the means to earn a fantastic living and she didn’t need that money (as grand as it might have been to have). It became her “mission”, undauntingly she pursued it with every ounce of her energy and she got blindsided by it. Just my opinion you understand, but one I share with millions.

I went surfing on Youtube to find some good video of Anna. I ran across this video which actually has quite a bit of footage of her and Larry Birkhead. She is with Howard as well at the 2nd half of this, but upon watching it I get a sense of what was going on.

I love the music in this. It starts with J. Howard Marshall II, Anna’s 2nd husband. Then moves into Larry with most pics with Howard actually in the background. I didn’t catch that at first. I think Larry was more a part of Anna’s life then I had previously believed.

In the pictures of Howard & Anna, at least in this one video, I don’t get the overwhelming sense of love. It just seems like a friendly relationship. The mock wedding in The Bahamas, Anna obviously was “not all there.” It was just for show and nothing more. She looked like she was made to do it, not into it at all. Like a show, which she was famous for, but in this particular role she was NOT convincing.

I stand corrected, in one area — the one small snippet at 1:47 in the video, with Daniel, it was totally and undeniably believable. Her love for him shined through like a flicker of flame on a prism. It permeated and enveloped everyone in it’s path.

Watch the video and see if you get the same impression. This is after all, simply my impression, not anything more.

Author: Traci Love

Anna met J. Howard Marshall II, a Texas billionaire who made his money in the oil business, while working in a strip club in Houston. He became one of her “regulars” lavishing her with gifts on a regular basis. They became friends and oddly enough lovers. Their 63 year difference in age didn’t seem to make much difference. During the four years that they knew each other Marshall asked her numerous times to marry him. It was only after she had made a name for herself at age 26 that she finally agreed.

Anna says she saved Marshall’s life one day when he stopped breathing. She quickly went to his rescue and resuscitated him after calling everyone she knew for help. It scared her immensely but she kept it together enough to help him out. If she had really been just after his money wouldn’t she have just let him go?

She say’s they had sex before their marriage and during as well as performing her “wifely duties”. There had always been speculation on that fact and Anna answered it publicly in interviews. That was viewed as a very odd relationship for most people and the fact that she loved him enough to “perform” for him made it seem more bizarre. I guess it is hard to image that sort of thing when the person you are envisioning it with is old enough to be your grandfather or even great-grandfather huh?

According to Anna’s half-sister Donna Hogan she felt that Marshall was Anna’s security blanket, basically. Her opinion of their marriage was that he made her sister feel secure, safe and well-taken care of. That is a very common reason for a woman to get married, there is nothing out of the ordinary here. I would venture to say that is probably the most common reason of all!