Anna Nicole Smith's Houston Home Hits The Market. My own Reflections on the Blonde Bombshell after Covering Her.

                                                             

                                                               

Anna Nicole Smith’s Houston home hit the market for $2.8 million.

House details on the link:

http://www.chron.com/homes/article/Former-home-of-Anna-Nicole-Smith-hits-market-for-11243429.php?ipid=ntk

The blonde bombshell model and actress, who catapulted to fame though Guess ads and a Playboy centerfold, was equally as well known for her marriage to a Houston billionaire 63 years her senior. She bought the suburban house in the Cypress area for almost $600,000. It was recorded in J. Howard Marshall’s name in the Harris County Appraisal District’s records during the time that she owned it.

When J. Howard Marshall died at the age of 90, a little more than one year after their marriage, the oil tycoon’s young bride was not mentioned in his will. Neither was one of his sons. So the two, who were not exactly friends before his death, both sued to get what they felt was their share of the money.

It was on the stand in downtown Houston, Texas where Anna Nicole stated what was probably her most famous quote defending her money problems and her need for J. Howard Marshall’s money. She said, “It’s very expensive to be me!”

As a television reporter in Houston at the time, I was assigned to cover the trial. I hadn’t given her much thought before the case came up and was curious to see if the hype I had heard would stand up. In person, Anna Nicole Smith had the same star quality that shone through from her pictures. Star quality is a funny thing. Some people come to life in photos and look better on camera than they do in real life and some people have more star quality in person than they do on camera. But Anna Nicole captured that essence in both. It wasn’t that she had a Je Ne Sais Quoi. Anna Nicole had more *POW* than all the Batman comics combined. She was impossible to miss.

But, of course, the expression “pretty is as pretty does” comes into play.  According to sad testimony about her relationship with her sometimes wheelchair bound husband, it was clear that Anna Nicole wasn’t exactly sympathetic to his health issues. The wealthy octogenarian may have pursued the 26-year-old Houston dancer, but the marriage was sometimes (or often as the Marshall family said) a case of “be careful what you wish for.”

As Shakespeare wrote: "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

According to the Houston Chronicle, the listing agent says the couple who bought the home after Anna Nicole Smith owned it raised their family there and are selling the ten acre estate to downsize now.