Not only did Pierce stop the money from going to the ‘ho’, but to his OTHER SON as well. So Pierce was a money grubbing POS as far as I’m concerned and I’m glad he died before he saw that money too. He denied his own brother his inheritance, the piece of crap that he was.
I had heard that Old Man Marshall knowingly left the other brother out of his will because he had aligned himself with business rivals and tried to push J. Howard out.