The pair married in 1994 when Smith was 26 and Marshall was 89.

He died just 14 months later.

For years now, Smith has been locked in a legal battle with her 67-year-old son-in-law E. Pierce Marshall III over 1.6 billion in inheritance money.

A state probate court jury returned a verdict in Houston in 2001 that Marshall did not leave any of his estate to Smith. On appeal, a federal bankruptcy judge sided with Smith, before another federal judge reduced the award and a federal appeals court ruled that federal courts should never have gotten involved in the case.

Smith began her career in a Houston strip club.