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Nicole Smith estate appeals ruling

Published Saturday, Apr 10 2010, 10:13 BST | By Aaron Broverman
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Estate lawyers for Anna Nicole Smith have appealed the ruling that shut the deceased model out of her former husband J. Howard Marshall's oil fortune.

According to The AP, the appeal filed yesterday seeks a full review of the judgement and continues a case that has outlived both parties.

In a March 19 ruling, the court sided with a Houston jury that decided in 2001 that the tycoon never intended to leave any of his $1.6 billion estate to Smith.

Marshall's will originally gave most of his estate to his son, E. Pierce Marshall.

David Margulies, a spokesman for the Marshall family, said that they will continue to defend its case with the "same vigour and resolve it has in the past as this case hopefully nears an end".

Smith and Marshall married in 1994. He was 89 and she was 26
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