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Get the hottest celebrity news in pictures, including Sandra Bullock, Ashlee Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith and more. By Janice Morris
Credit: A. MICHAEL/GLOBE; Mitchell Gerber/Corbis (inset)
Updated: Friday Jan 07, 2005 | 04:30 PM EST
BIGGEST FINANCIAL BLOW
Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, 37, was stripped of her $88.5 million inheritance from her late husband, Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall (inset), after a federal appeals court agreed that his son was the sole heir to the oil fortune. Amid all the legal wrangling, Smith, who married the 89-year-old Marshall when she was 26, had never seen a penny of the millions. Her lawyer has vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary.
