The Story Behind J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith J. Howard Marshall II was a billionaire oil executive, lawyer, and academic who had built a massive fortune through investments in the petroleum industry, including early ties to Koch Industries. Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan) was working as a stripper in Houston, Texas, in the early 1990s when the two met in 1991 at a club called Gigi’s. Marshall was in his 80s at the time, recently widowed and reportedly lonely. Smith was in her early 20s, struggling financially and raising a young son. According to both of...
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