<p>I thought she did get some money from the billionaire husband, just not as much as she was asking for…
but what a sad case
hopefully there is some money there for her child
also, I’m not sure about the child going to Birkhead…was she ever married to him? He still hasn’t established any parental rights as far as I can tell; so if Anna had made any arrangements for guardianship that would be whoever she chose, for now at least; and that will set the status quo and make it harder for Birkhead to get the child. He may end up with joint custody with the guardian, IF she appointed one. and tha’s a big if.
Should be interesting from a legal standpoint. It’s odd that the baby apparently wasn’t even with her at the hotel</p>
<p>“The $$$ is the lawsuit that was ongoing with her late billionaire husband’s family. He was like 86.”</p>
<p>Yes but the case was decided in favor of the son…not her</p>
<p>The theories of who did it are already over the Internet here is an interesting one that I found.</p>
<p>Howard K. Stern did it.</p>
<p>1.) He has always been around her for the money - good times and bad times. You know he wants his share.
2.) Anna did in fact win the ruling for all that money from her late husband, J. Howard Marshall.
3.) Her son died mysteriously and all of a sudden out of the clear blue of a methadone overdose. Was Daniel Smith just another roadblock for Howard K. Stern to achieve his sick strategy to having all that money to himself?
4.) She dies. Her nurse is in the room with her, yet does not give her CPR, but the bodyguard does instead and 2 minutes later?
5.) She dies on an Indian Reservation Casino/Hotel area, where the authority/jurisdiction is completely different from US government.
6.) Now that she is dead, her estate will go to her daughter…and who is the daughter’s father on the birth certificate? HOWARD K. STERN.</p>
<p>“A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.”</p>
<p>Since the ruling was overturned that money is not hers.</p>
<p>I don’t recall yet if the supreme court has made a final ruling on her case with her step son. I thought I had read the SC overrulled the reversal of the original judgement. I thought it was supposed to return to court.</p>
<p>Anna was such a sad character, just a messed up individual.</p>
<p>“Since the ruling was overturned that money is not hers.”</p>
<p>you have it backwards, the SC reopened it. She originally won, had it overturned. It’s the overturning that was reversed, not the award.</p>
<p>I think the case was still in limbo…no final resolution…so the baby still stands to inherit if the estate pursues it</p>
<p>I agree Howard Stern seems suspicious</p>
<p>she was vulnerable in some ways, but in others not</p>
<p>look at where she started out in life</p>
<p>the girl had moxie, no matter what else you can say that</p>
<p>“you have it backwards, the SC reopened it. She originally won, had it overturned. It’s the overturning that was reversed, not the award.”</p>
<p>Exactly she won and it was overuled. Then the case was reopened but that does not mean that the original verdict was reinstated…</p>
<p>“Exactly she won and it was overuled. Then the case was reopened but that does not mean that the original verdict was reinstated…”</p>
<p>It means the overturning doesn’t hold up either. It will be back in court. Anna’s case was/is going to be a textbook case. That is why the surpreme court was hearing it. They usually don’t get involved in settlement issues.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ANNA_NICOLE_WHY_WE_CARED?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US[/url]”>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ANNA_NICOLE_WHY_WE_CARED?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US</a></p>
<p>If that sleazeball Maury Povich can do a DNA test on his show in 20 minutes, why can’t they figure out which guy is the biodad of Anna’s little girl? They make it all so complicated. Why was she travelling with a private nurse? (at the Hard Rock, no less) I don’t know why I find it interesting in that I never watched her show, but somehow I do. Maybe because she was such an oddity. I can’t believe that Larry King’s show is devoted to her tonight. What’s gotten into him, anyway? Last night he had a woman imprisoned for murdering her Marine husband. He’s turning into a Maury Povich himself!</p>
<p>Anna Nicole is an icon. She is this generation’s Marilyn Monroe or Joan of Arc. With this, she will become a martyr. The mythology reached a zenith in the past year – a son dies in her hospital room, her lawyer and another fight over paternity. You couldn’t make this s*** up. It is so unreal. I wish I had paid more attention when she was alive.</p>
<p>For some reason, her story reminds me of Christina Onassis’. She also died unexpectedly in her late 30’s and left behind a daughter with a large fortune (although in this case maybe no fortune). But they were both into drugs and battled with their weight.
Very sad…</p>
<p>I wasn’t crazy about someone on cable elevating her to “she’s America’s Princess Diana”…not in the same category…never.</p>
<p>I watched an interview with her right after her son died. She was sobbing uncontrollably, and saying she was afraid her son was “stuck” and not getting to the “other side” because they had no family members that had already passed to “help him through”. To “meet him” there. She was worried that he would be scared and alone. She said that thought alone was killing her. They had an unusually tight bond. I suppose it’s possible that the heartache of losing her son could have been enough to kill her. I feel sad that there’s a newborn baby who now has no mother.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>I know no of us get out alive, but for some it’s just a more tragic transition.</p>
<p>People keep saying that she came from “nothing” and all of this which isn’t really true. Her mother was a cop. Anna never went passed 8th grade. I didn’t know that was legal in this country!</p>
<p>“Anna Nicole is an icon. She is this generation’s Marilyn Monroe or Joan of Arc.”</p>
<p>Exactly. And tomorrow the flags in front of the MENSA clubhouses throughout the land will all be at half-staff.</p>
<p>I would like to see a state funeral.</p>
<p>Wonder if it will take as long to lay her to rest as it did for her son :(</p>
<p>The battles will rage with lots of lawyers/parties involved for quite a while - the lines are already being drawn - what a legacy to leave to a small child.</p>
<p>hopefully she has a will or trust set up for her baby…but with all the tumult since the birth of the baby, maybe that didn’t get done…</p>
<p>apparently the suit vs the stepson is at a standstill, with the Federal bankruptcy court that sided with her in CA claiming jurisdiction vs the state court in Tx that sided with him…someone acting for the estate will need to pursue the resolution of that case</p>
<p>I believe that normally the Federal court would have jurisdiction over a state level court, but there will be plenty of legal wrangling before this is resolved</p>