Dallas Strip Clubs: Defendants in Anna Nicole Smith case face hearing
Smith’s death was a cause celebre as was her life. Last week, The Associated Press reported exclusively on newly released files that showed the FBI investigated a never-substantiated report that Smith plotted to kill her tycoon husband’s son as they battled for his father’s fortune.
Smith’s FBI records say the agency investigated Smith in 2000 and 2001 in a murder-for-hire plot targeting E. Pierce Marshall, who was at the center of a long legal fight to keep the starlet, model and one-time stripper from collecting his father’s oil wealth, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The younger Marshall died three years ago of natural causes.
Smith was 26 when she wed the 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall II, owner of Great Northern Oil Co. They met while she was a topless dancer at a Texas strip club.