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09-27-2005 01:24 PM |
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Top court to review Anna Nicole Smith's case.
WASHINGTON - Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is going to the Supreme Court.
Justices said Tuesday they would consider Smith’s appeal over the fortune of her 90-year-old late husband.
The initial $474 million award was reduced to about $89 million, then thrown out altogether by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The appeals court said that a Texas probate court’s decision that the oilman’s son was his sole heir should stand.
The appeals court decision, that federal courts in California never had jurisdiction, erased a lower court finding that she was entitled to compensatory and punitive damages because Marshall’s son tried to keep her from receiving money from his father’s estate.
The Supreme Court filings included only a hint of the nastiness and sleaze from the family fight. The dispute has involved a “a bizarre set of events,” justices were told in a filing by G. Eric Brunstad Jr., a Yale Law School professor who represents Marshall’s son.
Smith, whose real name is Vickie Lynn Marshall, had received more than $6 million in gifts from her late husband, but was not included in his will, justices were told.
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