Anna Nicole Smith
It\’s not an astronaut in diapers, but the stripper vixen of the Supreme Court has died, a victim of her own whirlwind. She collapsed and was then pronounced
DOA at a Florida hospital.
Just last night I was looking at one of the entertainment shows, looking for stories for my radio show\’s \”lighter side of the news\” topics, when I came upon an interview with Smith. Her speech was slurred and her eyes were blinking at half speed. She was clearly heavily drugged. It was horrible to watch.
The outcome doesn\’t surprise anyone, I\’m certain.
In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the head
of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune worth at least
$400 million.He died in 1995, setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall,
over whether she had a right to his estate.A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million in a complicated
legal twist that began after she declared bankruptcy. That was later overturned.But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved
another day in court in her battle with her former stepson.The justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with
her case despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall was the sole heir
to the estate.Then, the stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight
would continue.Daniel Smith died Sept. 10 in his mother\’s hospital room in the Bahamas,
just days after she gave birth to a daughter.An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he had
methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. Low levels of
the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, Wecht said.Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter
of dispute.
As MSNBC goes all Anna all the time (until Keith, one can hope), consider this a shameful media thread…
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