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[The Faceless Master]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a judgment awarding 1993 Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith (news - web sites) $88 million from the estate of her elderly billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall.

Source: Yahoo! News

happy new year? :lol

 

[DMczaf]

Justice!

 

[Guzim]

There is a God!

 

[Teknopathetic]

Want some money?

Want my baaaaawdy?

 

[Gibbo]

Best news i've heard all day

 

[Maxwell House]

That is AWESOME news!! I hate her with a passion. She is a truly horrible person.

So basically she whored herself out to a wrinkly, sick 80 year old man for NOTHING. :lol

 

[BigJonsson]

Wait

Why couldn't this have happened years ago?!@?

THen she would have never gotten famous by being a stupid spoiled whore

 

[karasu]

that's fucked up. She's wonky enough to have actually cared about the guy despite the immense difference in age.

 

[cubanb]

She's wonky enough to have actually cared about the guy despite the immense difference in age.

you are kidding right? this is a prime example of gold diggers R US

 

[snapty00]

Yup. She's one person I can seriously call a "whore" and not feel a bit of regret. I mean, really. It's like that word was made for her. Whore.

 

[Triumph]

Huh huh. They said "stripped".

 

[Crow357]

I don't know Anna or her life story (I could truly care less), but how does the fact that she got screwed improve your life? Or are you just happy someone got screwed?

 

[cubanb]

I don't know Anna or her life story (I could truly care less), but how does the fact that she got screwed improve your life? Or are you just happy someone got screwed?

maybe because she is the PRIME EXAMPLE of a GOLD DIGGER. that son deserved it more than a former playmate who marries a guy a billion years older than her that happens to have a huge fortune to leave to someone. guys dies 14 months thereafter and she is rich.
come on.
we all know her intentions





not to mention, she got fat and started a shitty reality show

 

[AntoneM]

I don't know Anna or her life story (I could truly care less), but how does the fact that she got screwed improve your life? Or are you just happy someone got screwed?

I am happy some one got screwed. As long as it's not anyone I know, I get screwed all the time (not in the sexual way) so I've become numb to it happening to me, but if you fuck over one of my friends and/or loved ones you'll have a man with nothing to lose to deal with.

 

[Deku Tree]

I doubt that this will be the last lawsuit.

 

[snapty00]

I don't know Anna or her life story (I could truly care less), but how does the fact that she got screwed improve your life? Or are you just happy someone got screwed?

Uh, she didn't get "screwed." She had what was coming to her.

 

[DarienA]

Stern is gonna have a field day with this.

 

[Fresh Prince]

So you're happy that his son gets the money now?
I mean the guy is probably a prick anyway.

 

[Cloudy]

Eh, not that I think she deserves the money or anything but didn't he LEAVE it to her in some kind of will? And if not, if they were married isn't she entitled to her late husband's cash?

How the hell can it be reversed and what kind of precedence does this set?

 

[Crow357]

Ah, ok thanks for the response. Well, like I said, I didn't know anything about the case. If she deserves it then she deserves it.

 

[Rorschach]

:lol Pictures of her moving back to the trailer with no friends (doubt her lawyer will be there when the retainer dries up ) coming soon.

 

[XS+]

Those reveling in this news do know that she's set without the inheritance, right? You do know that, due to appeals, she hasn't been able to touch a dime since the previous judgement went her way, right? Some of you are truly sad.

 

[belgurdo]

:lol Pictures of her moving back to the trailer with no friends (doubt her lawyer will be there when the retainer dries up ) coming soon.

Probably not happening considering she models now that she's lost weight, but I'm still glad that she lost that cash. She knew what she was doing by marrying that guy so I can't pity her

 

[MrPing1000]

Justice! How the hell she managed to get the cash to begin with boggles me since theres NO mention of her in his will. Although if I recall she hasn't been allowed to spend any of it until the case was finally closed, so she still has cash.

Vickie Lynn

:lol white trash

 

[Tazznum1]

While I agree that she didn't deserve anything since I don't think the marrage was consummated. She visited him on a couple of occassions when they were married, but on his death bed she called once. It sucks for the other son who also got nothing.


On a side note, I saw pics of her and she is scary thin.

 

[Mama Smurf]

I haven't followed this at all, but if her husband was a billionaire, how the fuck has the $88 million that she got affected the guy's sons? I mean, even if he "only" has $1 billion, that's not even 10% of his money. Where's the rest?

 

[Baron Aloha]

I don't think she deserves all that money but I do think she's entitled to like $10 million or something like that. She probably made the guy happy in his twilight years. She should get something.

 

[SlickWilly223]

She's looking kind of hot these days, and when I think that I feel so horribly white-trash dirty.

 

[shuri]

BUT WHAT IF WAS TRUE LOOOOOOOVE?!

 

[Shinobi]

I don't know Anna or her life story (I could truly care less), but how does the fact that she got screwed improve your life? Or are you just happy someone got screwed?

I wish it was me that was doing the screwing...ahem.

Chances are she'll start banging the son soon. :lol

 

[Maxwell House]

Those reveling in this news do know that she's set without the inheritance, right? You do know that, due to appeals, she hasn't been able to touch a dime since the previous judgement went her way, right? Some of you are truly sad.

Actually, that isn't true. She is supposed to be in pretty bad financial straits, having borrowed money against her supposed future windfall, which has now fallen through. She has spent millions on legal fees. She is overextended because she was sure she would get his money. She isn't well off at all.

She will be doing porn in 2-3 years.

And why shouldn't we want her to get nothing? Did you not hear any of the testimony in this case? Anna Nicole Smith is a BITCH, manipulating an old man in a horrible way to get his money. Her real name is Vickie btw. Here is some of the testimony:

Like many witnesses who have testified in this case, Hunt worked for Howard Senior and came to care for and respect a man who she described as a difficult patient. A deeply religious woman who volunteers in a prison ministry, Hunt was an especially effective witness as she contradicted Vickie's version of events during an incident that made nationwide headlines. Attorney Rusty Hardin asked Hunt if Vickie bared her breasts to entice her husband to repeat statements she was instructing him to make into a tape recorder. Vickie denied the incident took place and called Hardin a "pervert" for asking about it.

But Hunt told jurors the incident did happen. She said Vickie asked Howard Senior, "Do you miss me? Do you miss my Rosebuds?" and then lifted her shirt to reveal her breasts. Hunt says Vickie then told her husband, "Now honey I want you to tell the judge that you want your wife to be taken care of." Hunt said Vickie would tell Howard Senior to say something and he would repeat it into the tape recorder.

Vickie's attorney, faced with yet another credible witness calling his client a liar, went back to his familiar theme that Vickie and Howard Senior was just a normal loving couple. Hunt didn't buy it. "I thought he was being coerced," she told Vickie's attorney. Vickie's attorney pressed on asking why the couple wasn't allowed some private time. Hunt told jurors Howard Senior's caregivers considered his wife a threat to his health after another nurse caught Vickie trying to feed her sick husband solid food when he could barely eat. Concerned for Marshall's health, the nurses told Hunt to keep an eye on Vickie when she came to visit. In fact, a log kept at the home notes that Vickie called several times to say she was coming over with solid food, including barbecue, to feed her husband.

Eyvonne Scurlock ran Howard Senior's office and saw him more than any other witness including members of his family. She was one of only a few people who attended Howard Senior's wedding to Vickie and kept a log of Vickie's comings and goings during her marriage to Howard Senior. She also paid Vickie's bills from Howard Senior's personal funds.

Vickie's attorneys claimed Pierce Marshall ordered Scurlock to keep a log of Vickie's comings and going to spy on his father's new wife. But Scurlock testified the log was her idea because she was responsible for trying to find Vickie when her husband tried to reach her and because she became concerned about the way Vickie treated Howard Senior.

The log shows a wife who spent virtually no time with her husband. According to the log, Vickie spent only 17 days with her husband between June 27, 1994 and December 31, 1994. In addition, she did not see her husband at all during the last month of his life.

Like many of the people who knew and cared for Howard Senior, Scurlock said she had a pleasant relationship with Vickie but came to resent the way she abandoned her husband especially when he was ill. "He needed her sitting there holding his hand," Scurlock told jurors.

"It hurt me cause I cared for him," Scurlock said. "If she had just come out there and sat there and held his hand and said I loved you."

Vickie has claimed that she was prevented from seeing her husband but Scurlock testified, "She would have been treated like royalty if she had come to see him. She was his wife. Why didn't she come and take care of the needs of her husband?" she asked.

Scurlock confirmed stories told by previous witnesses of Vickie's insatiable hunger for cash, jewelry and real estate. Vickie told jurors she never had to ask her husband for money. Scurlock told jurors Vickie frequently screamed at her husband demanding cash. She said she once demanded $10,000 be delivered to her within 30 minutes.

Scurlock repeated stories jurors have heard before about monthly six-figure credit card bills, million-dollar jewelry purchases and envelopes filled with cash for Vickie. She described for jurors what happened when Howard Senior wrote a check for close to a million dollars for jewelry for Vickie. Scurlock said Howard Senior could not borrow the funds to cover the check. She said he called Pierce who said, "Good God, dad. What do you want to do?" She testified Pierce asked his father if he wanted to sell assets to cover the check. She said Howard Senior answered, "No," and told Pierce that Vickie would have to return the jewelry.

As the case winds down it has become clear that Vickie, and later her attorneys, developed a fixation on Pierce Marshall as the cause of Vickie's money problems. In fact, witnesses have confirmed repeatedly for jurors that Howard Senior made the final decisions on all his business affairs including the decision that he could no longer afford to fund Vickie's lavish lifestyle.

Witnesses have testified that by 1995, Howard Senior had become tired of his wife's demands and recognized that she would spend or lose anything that he gave her. On the day of his death he would not even accept a phone call from the woman he once called, "the light of my life."

For the second time, a witness broke down in tears while describing how Vickie treated her husband the late J. Howard Marshall II (Howard Senior).

Howard Senior's driver and traveling companion, Arnold Wyche, joined a growing list of witnesses who are telling jurors that Vickie repeatedly made statements that were untrue during her testimony earlier in the trial. Wyche also described a deteriorating relationship between Howard Senior and his wife that left Howard Senior so angry with Vickie that he would not accept her phone calls.

Wyche said Smith's testimony that she never had to ask her husband for money was untrue. He described a phone call in which Vickie yelled at her husband demanding cash. He quoted Marshal Senior as saying, "'G__damnit, I don't have anymore money, you spent it all."

Cruel Treatment Brings Tears

Wyche described how Vickie humiliated her husband when he asked to be placed in her bed so he could take a nap. "'Arnold, just throw me in bed next to her,'" Wyche said Howard Senior suggested. The incident took place during a trip Howard Senior made to visit Vickie at her home in California. Wyche said Vickie told her husband, "Oh no, Howard, you know you don't get in the bed with me. You pee the bed." He said Howard Senior was deeply embarrassed and sunk down in his wheelchair and dropped his head. Vickie told jurors the incident didn't happen. Wyche, an ex-Marine, broke down in tears shortly after describing Vickie's insensitivity and his elderly employer's embarrassment.

Vickie Was in Bed During Howard Senior's Visits

Vickie also claimed she spent as much time was possible with her husband when he visited California. Wyche told a completely different story. He said Vickie spent virtually all of her time in bed, rarely seeing her husband, even when they were in the same house, and continually making excuses when asked to accompany her husband to dinner. "'Arnold,'" Wyche quoted Howard Senior as saying, "'Where is she? I'm in the same house with her. I still can't find her.'"

Where's My Pin Money

Wyche also contradicted Vickie's claim she never emptied her husband's wallet. He described a scene during the August 1994 visit to California when he wheeled Howard Senior in for a rare and very brief visit with his wife. Wyche said Howard Senior called him back five minutes into the visit and that Vickie demanded her "pin money." He said Howard Senior gave Vickie his wallet which she emptied of between fifteen hundred and three thousand dollars in cash and a blank, signed check.

Vickie's Cooking Makes Husband Ill

Vickie also adamantly denied making her husband ill by feeding him undercooked bacon during a visit he made to California in December 1994. While Vickie's ability to cook is not an issue before the jury, she adamantly denied ever serving her husband undercooked bacon during her testimony. While he has attempted to defend his client's actions in many other instances even Vickie's attorney told jurors, "I guess its no secret Mrs. Marshall's not the best cook in the world." But Wyche told jurors Vickie's insistence her husband eat the undercooked bacon made him sick.

Wyche described the scene in detail. He said Vickie did cook breakfast and served her husband and Wyche bacon that was undercooked and limp. Wyche said Howard Senior didn't want to embarrass his wife so he ate eggs instead but eventually ate a little of the bacon when Vickie insisted. He became ill a short time later.

Despite his illness, Wyche testified, Vickie insisted her 90 year old husband accompany her to a fancy Los Angeles restaurant that evening in the rain. Wyche said that after they got home Vickie tried to get him to leave her husband and go dancing with her. When he refused he said Vickie left with her bodyguard.

Vickie and Bodyguard Sleep at Marshall Home

Vickie's attorney made another valiant but futile attempt to protect his client's reputation when he questioned housekeeper Ada Estes about the night Vickie and her bodyguard spent the night at the Marshall home while her husband was in the hospital. Jurors laughed when Vickie's attorney suggested the bodyguard may have stayed up all night guarding Vickie as an explanation for why only one bed had been slept in upstairs. Estes answered, "I know the bed was slept in and two pillows were messed up." Earlier Estes described a scantily clad Vickie coming to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal and two spoons.

You can read a whole timeline of reports from the court here:

Anna Nicole Smith Court Case

Yeah, what a kind hearted soul. I feel so bad for her. She was so in love with her 90 year old billionaire husband. You could just tell it was genuine. :lol

 

[Tazznum1]

She really has no money. Not saying she will be in a trailer park soon....but...you never know Let's just be happy she can fit into a single wide now.

 

[Desperado]

She's looking kind of hot these days

No...just no.

 

[Shinobi]

I'm not sure hot is the right word...but she's certainly looks doable now. Of course she looked a lot more doable when she was $88 million to the good...

 

[karasu]

you are kidding right? this is a prime example of gold diggers R US

So I take it you believe that the billionaire never took part in anything that was morally questionable? His relationsmith with Smith could have been better than the one he had with his sons, who the crap knows. Either way, seeing some loopy woman lose out on a few mil doesn't make my days any brighter. It also doesn't mean that the money is going to anyone who "deserves" it.

 

[belgurdo]

No...just no.

Actually, she does look fairly decent. Back in the day she looked like a later years Marilyn Monroe (which is why she got popular with Playboy readers) and she's kinda back to that now. Too bad she couldn't have a good personality to go with the body

 

[Particle Physicist]

that's fucked up. She's wonky enough to have actually cared about the guy despite the immense difference in age.

please. his real family didnt get a penny.



oh.. and if anyone thinks this was 'true love' .. the only episode i saw of her show was when she had her assistant try to find her a rich.. old man to go out with/marry .. makes you go hmm...