14 DAY TRIAL // Late glamor model and actress Anna Nicole Smith was subject to an FBI investigation for plotting to kill the son of her late husband in order to stop him from standing in the way of getting the money she was supposed to get thanks to her husband’s will, it has emerged. According to the Examiner, the investigation lasted approximately one year and eventually had to be dropped for lack of evidence.
It seems Smith was determined to have E. Pierce Marshall killed because he kept fighting her in court over the money left by his father and her husband. Smith had married millionaire J. Howard Marshall when she was 26 and he was 89 after meeting in a club where she was working. He died about one year into the marriage and, until her final hour, she constantly fought for part of his impressive estate. Understandably, Pierce Marshall opposed her, as he believed the money should go to his own family.
The FBI began to investigate Smith on the suspicion of plotting the murder of Pierce Marshall in 2000. Her house was repeatedly raided and she was questioned multiple times, documents just revealed indicate, but she always maintained she was innocent. “The FBI investigation halted in 2001, after prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence ‘…to establish that there was a murder-for-hire plot by Ms. Smith to kill Pierce Marshall.’ The son passed away at the age of 67 in 2006.” the Examiner writes. Anna Nicole Smith too died one year later from overdose.
However, in what is an even more surprising turn of events, one of Anna Nicole Smith’s lovers, Mark “Hollywood” Hatten, has also stepped forward to claim that, indeed, she did want Pierce Marshall dead. Even more, he says in a phone interview with TMZ, she had specifically asked him countless times to kill Marshall, offering him motive to do so and even providing him with a weapon.
Hatten claims that, at the time, he went to Marshall’s attorneys and told them of the scheme because Smith only worked at it when she was heavily under the influence of drugs. They, in turn, alerted the FBI. However, the Bureau did not believe Hatten and chose to close the investigation, he says in the same interview.