The $300 million Anna Nicole Smith claimed her elderly billionaire husband left her will not go to Smith’s estate, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided.
The court on Friday supported a 2001 Texas verdict and ordered that court decisions about the fate of the money made subsequent to that verdict should be ignored. Smith and oil magnate J. Howard Marshall were married for 14 months before he died in 1994 at age 89,