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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
First off, the yahoo story says she began her battle before he even died. Was he any more incapacaitated when she began her battle than the eight months before when they got married? If so, shouldnt that nullify her claim in the first place? And if not, shouldnt that be proof, on its face, that he did not intend for her to have the money if she was fighting when he was still able to step in? Why woldnt she get it in wrirint if he was still alive? Doesnt add up.

Is the douchbag son arguing Undue Influence or whatever that argument is when someone cant think straight bc they have tits the size of a skull smothering their face and they cant escape bc they are bound to either a bed or a wheelchair?

From a state probate level, how does she have a case? And how did this get kicked to a ninth circuit bankruptcy court? Totally different case? She claimed bankruptcy and somehow brought this old rich guy thing in to that case? What happened here exactly?

Did you read the Houston Press article about her during her marriage?

With passages like these, who wouldn't be rivited by their story?

The old man's last topless dancer mistress had just died during a facelift, and he had discovered in her will another lover. Howard was suing her estate for every penny of all the millions he had given, when he was wheeled into another topless bar to meet another dancer.

Anyhow, the relevant passage is

Anna, as she has said, entered a prolonged period of despair. She tried to fill the void in her life with food. She ate Twinkies and Ho-Hos and Dream Pies, and "everything," she told one magazine, "that wasn't trying to eat me." She overdosed a couple of times. She called Hollywood director Oliver Stone a "fucking asshole," waggled a naked breast at Bruce Willis and threw up at Dolly Parton's feet. Her weight went to well over 200 pounds, and from her Guess? contract, she went to Lane Bryant, and from there, she wound up making a lesbian porno movie. Anna consumed virtually everything she had, except a half-billion-dollar claim to Howard's estate. When she filed for bankruptcy, it became the business of the court to determine her wealth.

She arrived in the Los Angeles courtroom last month looking every bit the beautiful victim of grief. She was slimmer than she had recently been, and her breasts had been restrained behind a conservative blue suit. Hobbled by a back injury, she leaned on her lawyers and dabbed her eyes. Pierce's side seemed at a loss. They tried to portray the widow as a gold digger, but she either wept at their questions or professed not to understand. On several points, she was clear. No, she had not retrieved the old man's ashes; cremation was "really disgusting." Yes, she was faithful to Pawpaw. And though she couldn't remember which day she was married, she was sure it was one of the most important in her life.

"I believed when I married my husband that I was entitled to half of what he had," Anna Nicole testified.

There were charges that Pierce had altered documents to save the fortune. There was testimony that Howard was very happy with Anna and very angry with Pierce for his intrusion. The argument, in essence, was that a deal was a deal. He was rich and she was pretty, and their marriage was no different from many high-society marriages. The rich guy was a lot richer, and the trophy wife was more stacked, that's all. It is for the judge to decide now how much it is worth to be probed by 90-year-oldŠ appendages.

Anna Nicole put on her dark glasses and walked out of the courthouse, past the gathered reporters. Until the judge rules, lawyers wanted to keep her as quiet as possible and wouldn't let her discuss Sandi Powledge. Back in Winnsboro, though, Sandi can tell things are going to be okay for Anna. She used to hope that Anna would come back and get a job like hers -- "butt-wiper" in a nursing home -- and they could live together like a regular lesbian couple. As Sandi admits now, "that'll probably never happen."

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Did you read the Houston Press article about her during her marriage?

With passages like these, who wouldn't be rivited by their story?


Anyhow, the relevant passage is

Gots to love this stuff. Fact is stranger than fiction.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Spanky
Gots to love this stuff. Fact is stranger than fiction.

You can look for the whole opinion by the bankruptcy judge (now overruled), but the best parts are here - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ansjudge1.html

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Is Anna Nicole Smith somehow a better name than Vicky Lynn Marshall?

Seriously.

Sure. If you introduce yourself to a slightly deaf and very nearsighted book shoppe owner on the Upper East Side, he might think you said Anna Devere Smith and give you a nice little discount, and there's nothing wrong with that, nu?

[Spanky]

I am page 560 of Until I Find You. I am having trouble getting through it. I was going to finish tonight but Sidd and Slave have filled my social calender for the evening.

Anyone else reading this? Should we choose something else?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Spanky
I am page 560 of Until I Find You. I am having trouble getting through it. I was going to finish tonight but Sidd and Slave have filled my social calender for the evening.

Anyone else reading this? Should we choose something else?

S&S Procurement, LLC?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
S&S Procurement, LLC?

I was thinking more along the lines of the book Slave suggested about New Amesterdam or the book Ty suggested about England in her darkest days of WWII.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Spanky
I was thinking more along the lines of the book Slave suggested about New Amesterdam or the book Ty suggested about England in her darkest days of WWII.

sigh.

Though, it would be amusing if S&S Procurement, LLC, were actually the title of a book.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
S&S Procurement, LLC?

My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start.

Seriously - is any one else reading Until I Find You? Paigow?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Seriously - is any one else reading Until I Find You? Paigow?

I read the Rabbit books, but those got really tiring. Then I tried reading his short stories, but even one was about these college English professors going through a divorce. I don't think your book club will have traction if you don't pick something people will like.

Try this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...97639?v=glance

Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

• All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.
  
  Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure.

The best novelist writing today.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't think your book club will have traction if you don't pick something people will like.

Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

[Anonymous Fashionista]

Originally posted by Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

I am.


Anon (because a partner saw it on my desk yesterday and commented on it).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

Just announce her book has been cancelled and assign mine. Ty will have read it, and i have already- you'd like it.

Paigow is an enigma- her posts are very high brow and difficult to understand. but her cultural tastes (reality TV, john Updike) are too lowbrow and difficult to ingest. she can't be your book selecter.

[SlaveNoMore]

Spanky
Paigow insisted on this book. I didn't want to do fiction. But now I am getting the feeling I have been suckered.

Once I finish this Benjamin Franklin bio, I intend to read the new Doctorow book "The March"