A new wrinkle in the life of Anna Nicole Smith has come to life. It turns out that in 2000 and 2001, the FBI spent time investigating the former Playboy Playmate for taking part in a plot to kill her late husband's son, though ultimately dropped the case for lack of evidence.According to files obtained by the Associated Press, the feds were looking into a murder-for-hire plot against E. Pierce Marshall, the son of the Smith's billionaire tycoon husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
Smith and Marshall were in the middle of a sometimes vicious battle over who would inherit the oil man's millions of dollars. Smith met the elderly man while working as a stripper, and married him shortly after. He was 89, she was 26. He died just over a year after their marriage.
According to files, Smith was questioned in 2000, and immediately broke down crying, denying all involvement. However, files also show that police raided her home at some point, and recovered a handgun, steel knife, and an orange and black "Dr. Seuss" hat.
The investigation came to end sometime in 2001, after prosecutors determined there was "insufficient evidence to establish that there was a murder-for-hire plot by Ms. Smith to kill Pierce Marshall." E. Pierce Marshall passed away in 2006 at the age of 67. Anna Nicole Smith passed away from a suspected drug overdose in South Florida a little over one year later.
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