What is the most blatant act of gold digging you've ever seen, experienced, or heard? I have a solid contender
The oil tycoon, Howard J. Marshall, met Anna Nicole Smith when she was dancing nude in a club and fell in love with her, and started showering her with gifts. She was 19 at the time. He was much, much older.
He gave her a giant house to stay in and did all these things to win her over. He pursued her for years, and eventually, she signed on to marry him after she’d been parading around in Hollywood for a few years.
Their wedding picture tells the full story.
She was 26 to his 89.
She was a dancer and knew how to play it all up.
He had bad dementia and was out of it, so she could keep him buying this illusion without too much work.
Well, the billionaire tycoon died shortly after they were married, making it seem like she was entitled to all the money. His quick death wasn’t a coincidence, as I’m almost certain she waited until he was on death’s door to go through with the marriage.
But the tycoon’s son, also a savvy businessman, was having zerrrrrroo part of that nonsense and they went to court and she didn’t get any of the money (she’d already blown through $16 million she’d gotten from Marshall over the years).
I’m not saying she should have gotten zero. But she definitely didn’t deserve billions. The old man was compromised.
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