Anna Nicole Smith: FBI Investigated Murder Plot

National Ledger
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By Samantha Lawton
Oct 10, 2009
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Tragic Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith was investigated by the FBI over a plot to kill her tycoon husband's son, it has emerged. Newly-released files show the famously curvy blonde who was battling E Pierce Marshall over his late father's oil fortune, was probed by investigators in 2000 and 2001 over an apparent murder-for-hire plot.
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According to the FBI files, a revolver was recovered from Smith's home during the investigation, as well as a three-and-a-half-inch knife. Ultimately, prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence to charge Smith, who died in 2007 from a drugs overdose.
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E Pierce Marshall has also since died. During an interview with agents on July 3, 2000, "Smith began crying and denied ever making such plans," a report said. "Smith adamantly denied ever contemplating such a crime," an agent wrote. Smith's estate attorney has expressed surprise at the allegations, while representatives for Marshall's estate would not comment.
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Anna Nicole Smith's FBI records, obtained by The Associated Press, say the agency investigated Smith in 2000 and 2001 in a murder-for-hire plot that targeted E. Pierce Marshall. He had long fought Smith from collecting his father's oil wealth, valued in the hundreds of millions. Pierce Marshall died three years ago of an aggressive infection.
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It would be hard for this writer, to imagine Anna planning to kill him. She certainly had her vices, but was a gentle soul beneath the glitz and glamour.
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In May, 2006, Anna Nicole had won a ruling by the Supreme Court that said she had a right to pursue an inheritance from the late J Howard Marshall in federal court. That was good news, she could see the fight coming to an end, but through the court, not by killing Pierce.
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Anna Nicole was in South Carolina and Florida (back and forth) with Ben Thompson, Ford Shelley and his family when Pierce died in Houston, Texas on June 23, 2006. Ford had flown to California in early June, 2006 to escort her to South Carolina, where she stayed until Stern, who had stayed in California, came to fetch her in mid July, and by October the live-in lawyer and Smith were in the Bahamas on Ben's dime.
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Howard does not escape my suspicion or scrutiny. By all accounts, Howard K Stern never left Anna's side and beginning in about 1996 gradually gained control of her assets, legal affairs and eventually her life. Why did that change right after the judgement from the Supreme Court?
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I would really like to know where Stern was and what he was doing after Anna Nicole went to South Carolina with Ford Shelley. Especially on June 23, 2006, when E. Pierce Marshall died unexpectedly of an odd aggressive infection. He says he was working on the Supreme Court case. I do not believe him.
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Now I wonder why The Associated Press requested the file. It was reportedly heavily blacked out in some areas, which gives me hope that someone in the media, law enforcement or the district attorneys office is also interested in where Stern was on June 23. We already know that he doesn't mind being "loose" with medications.
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