Talk about a windfall! The world's most famous Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith, has been awarded a huge US$449 million in her fight for her late husband's estate.

The busty Anna Nicole, who married billionaire oil baron J.Howard Marshall in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89, has been battling it out with her, er, stepson, 61-year-old Pierce Marshall. Pierce's solicitors argued that while J. Howard may have loved his wife, he never left her any money from his $1.6 billion estate.

But Anna Nicole testified that her husband, who was wheelchair-bound, had promised several times that he would leave her half of his immense wealth. She said the geriatric billionaire was so captivated when he first saw her as she performed a strip routine at a club in Houston, he vowed to give her half of everything he owned, if she agreed to become his wife. "This was one of the ways he wanted to hurry me up and marry me," she told the court. "He loved me, and I loved him."

Not surprisingly, Anna Nicole, whose real name is Vicki Lynn Hogan, is over the moon with the judgement. "I'm so excited," she said, joyfully. "No-one ever took care of me in my whole life, and this man did, and I love him for that."

"I hope it ends up that I get everything that he wanted me to have." No doubt.

Also no surprise is the fact that Pierce Marshall, who is fighting with his older brother, as well, over their father's estate, will appeal the decision. He's called the ruling a "miscarriage of justice that is not supported by the facts."      vote again: "Will you marry an old billionaire for money?"

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