Smith, then 26, married Texan oil millionaire, J. Howard Marshall in 1994, but the 89-year old groom died a year later. Newly-released FBI files uncover an investigation conducted in 2001 into an alleged murder-for-hire plot which they believed Smith had created to kill Marshall’s son, and thus gain control of her late husband’s wealth.
From the day his father passed until his own death [from natural causes] in 2006, the son, Everett Pierce Marshall, waged a harsh legal war that blocked Anna from gaining her husband’s estate, judged at the time to be over $550-million.
As part of their plans, the FBI searched Anna’s home in July of 2000 and recovered a .357-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver and a stainless-steel knife. Agents then interviewed the model and the new records prove she broke down in tears at their allegations. She then made it clear that a murder would do her no good as a trust held the money, and it could not be released. She also claimed a soured ex-lover had made up the story to mess up her life.
