Entertainment Tonight is reporting that ANNA NICOLE SMITH went to the Ninth Circuit Federal Courthouse in San Francisco to mediate with a federal judge and the family of her late billionaire husband, J. HOWARD MARSHALL II, over her share of the vast fortune he left behind. The amount is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the first time she has left her home in the Bahamas for the States since the death of her son DANIEL and the birth of her daughter, DANNIELYNN. Wearing a black suit and dark sunglasses to the proceeding, Anna Nicole was accompanied by her attorney, HOWARD K. STERN, and she arrived by cab just before 10 a.m. PST. Marshall, who was six decades Anna Nicole’s senior, died in 1995 and did not include her in his will. She contends that her late husband intended to provide for her through a gift in the form of a special trust. The case has battled back and forth for years. Last February, Anna Nicole appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court, which determined that she had the right to pursue her case. Anna Nicole told ET in an exclusive interview in her Bahamian home last month that her late husband seems to be watching over her, saying, "Howard [K. Stern] is the sweetest, nicest person I’ve ever met in my life besides my husband, J. Howard Marshall II. It’s like my husband sent him to me." After Marshall’s death, she told ET, "I speak to him daily. It’s spiritual thing, you know, I talk to God, I talk to my husband. They talk to each other and they keep me straight."
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I hope they bring her back to LA before she heads back to the Bahamamas so Larry Birkhead can confirm he is the father!
