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.
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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.