Anna Nicole Smith Estate Denied Inheritance to Oil Fortune

(HMG) – T0 be frank about it, it looks like Anna Nicole Smith’ slept with an old man for nothing.  Her estate was denied any portion from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Friday.

Marshall had given Smith $6 million in gifts but didn’t make additional provisions for her in his will.  But the former playboy Playmate and reality TV star claimed Marshall promised her $300 million US from his estate.

She met the oil tycoon at a strip club and was married to him for a little over a year before he died at age 90.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest stop in the 15-year legal battle over the $1.6 billion estate that oil magnate J. Howard Marshall left after his 1995 death.

Smith, who died in 2007 of a prescription drug overdose at age 39, had been fighting his family over the estate for almost 15 years, and some lower courts backed her claim to part of his estate.

Dannielynn Hope, the daughter Smith had in 2006, is heir to Anna Nicole Smith’s estate. She is being raised by Larry Birkhead, who was declared her father after a paternity case was resolved through the courts.