Always a sad thing to outlive your (step)son ...

DALLAS (AP) — E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith over his father’s oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.

Marshall died unexpectedly Tuesday evening in the Dallas area from a brief and extremely aggressive infection, the family said in a written statement released through spokesman David Margulies. He declined to provide additional details.

“The family would politely request that their privacy be respected during this extremely difficult time as they grapple with this devastating loss,” the statement said.

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year. Since then, E. Pierce Marshall has been locked in a legal battle over her entitlement to the estate.

 

Somewhere Anna Nicole is getting ripped on pork rhines and a 40

 

Does this help her chances of collecting all that cash since it was the son who was fighting so hard to keep her from getting a penny?

 

That makes tonight different from the other nights how?

 

Well, maybe tonight she's not popping Trimspa pills like they're Pez.

 

I've never heard Anna Nicole referred to in this way before. Who knew?

 

About to piss my pants on that one....

I'll be right back.