Supreme Court rules against Anna Nicole Smith's estate

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the estate of Anna Nicole Smith in its fight to capture some of the $1.6 billion estate left behind by her late Texas billionaire husband.

The high court on Thursday ruled that a bankruptcy court's decision to give the now-deceased actress, model and Playboy Playmate $475 million from the estate of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall was decided incorrectly.

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Smith and Marshall were wed in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the next year.

His will left his estate to his son, E. Pierce Marshall, and nothing to Smith. A California bankruptcy court awarded Smith part of the estate, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a bankruptcy court could not make a decision on an issue outside of bankruptcy law.

The high court agreed, with a vote of 5-4.

Smith died on Feb. 8, 2007, of what was ruled an accidental overdose. She was 39.