Anna Nicole Smith broke down in court yesterday when she appeared to defend her inheritance to a portion of her late husband’s fortune. The model/reality TV star was weeping in the back row of the Washington DC courthouse while a lawyer for J Howard Marshall’s son-in-law E Pierce Marshall accused her of being a gold-digger, claiming, “She was abusive to J Howard. She was cruel to him.” Anna Nicole’s legal battle date back eleven years when 89-year-old oil tycoon J Howard died, leaving a fortune of nearly $3 billion behind. [1 March 2006]