Anna Nicole Smith gets none of oil fortune

A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith`s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest stop in the 15-year legal battle over the $1.6 billion estate that oil magnate J. Howard Marshall left after his 1995 death at age 90. Smith had married Marshall the previous year.

The appeals court ruled Friday that a Texas jury`s 2001 verdict should be honored because it had heard from all parties during the five-month trial. The jury ruled in favor of Marshall`s son, E. Pierce Marshall.

The appeals court says subsequent federal court decisions that granted Smith various parts of Marshall`s fortune should be ignored.

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