Anna Nicole Smith - principle is more important than the money!
Anna Nicole Smith, the ex-topless dancer who married one of wealthiest men in Texas, J. Howard Marshall II, is to get her case heard at the U.S. Supreme Court. She has spent the last 10 years trying to get millions of dollars she claims her late husband promised her.
Smith (real Vickie Lynn Marshall) was originally awarded $475 million following the death of her husband, even though she wasn't mentioned in his will, but this was later reduced to $88.5 million and a further ruling decided she should get nothing.
J. Howard Marshall II died in 1995 and his son has disputed Smith's claim to any of his money. Marshall senior married Smith when he was 89 and she was 26, and he died a year later. They had met 3 years earlier in a Topless Club.