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Anna Nicole Smith's heirs will get nothing
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than $300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant to leave her after he died.
The ruling came in a 15-year legal battle that started in a sleepy Houston probate court and stretched all the way to the U.S Supreme Court.
It initially pitted Smith against the son of J. Howard Marshall over the $1.6 billion estate the oil tycoon left after his 1995 death at age 90. J. Howard Marshall had wed Smith the year before when she was 26.
Marshall's son E. Pierce Marshall died in 2006 and Smith perished after a drug overdose in 2008. Their heirs and lawyers kept up the legal fight that included one ruling awarding Smith $474 million.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/court-anna-nicole-smith-gets-none-of-oil-fortune/37749?nc
I wonder if the woman who wrote that screed knows that Johns get arrested all the time and the prostitutes walk. It is the officers discretion on who gets popped and usualy if you have a clean record and they have had no contact with a subject they will give a person a pass.
Prostitution and trafficking - the anatomy of a moral panic
The sex trafficking story is a model of misinformation. It began to take shape in the mid 1990s, when the collapse of economies in the old Warsaw Pact countries saw the working flats of London flooded with young women from eastern Europe. Soon, there were rumours and media reports that attached a new word to these women. They had been "trafficked".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated
"Nor has there been a determination concerning the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Kate has failed to account for in violation of the arbitratorandrsquo;s order," Heller says in a statement
I had to think about that and after letting it mellow on the mind a bit I felt the remark was a little sexist. (Not that I'm not guilty of sexism myself.) Why couldn't a woman do that?