The last stripper he gave millions to did just fine with the $$$ and invested them, as he expected ANS to do.
Unfortunately, she didn’t keep her end of the bargain and act like a wife. She brought boyfriends to the house, even to his hospital room. She lived in another state. If he went to visit her in CA, she’d go to her bedroom and ignore him the whole time.
She only saw him 17 days out of the whole first 6 months of their marriage and she never saw him at all once he became deathly ill. Never once in the last month of his life did she visit him and she wouldn’t return his phone calls or those of others made on his behalf.
It was extremely foolish of the old man to dream that ANS would ever be faithful to him! She LOVED Clay and many other men and women in her life and she screwed around on ALL of them too!
She lived at the ranch and had a house in California and was traveling for business extensively (she was still the Guess spokesperson at this time). ANS was attributed with bringing him out of his funk over the death of his mistress and she made him very happy for a period of years. After they were married she wasn’t as attentive and certainly not the model wife...
the question is not whether we “like” her or think she “deserved” the $$$$$. It is WHAT not J. Howard Marshall promised her to induce her to marry him and what Pierce and his lying, scheming attorneys did to block her received that promise.
What cooked Pierce’s goose in Federal court was NEW evidence that was not presented in the probate court case.
ANS’s attorney’s were able to prove that Pierce was lying when he said he DIDN’T know about his fathers wedding until it was over.
As soon as Pierce found out his father was marrying ANS he and the attorneys IMMEDIATELY started draining his fathers assets. They set up a trust and had J.Howard sign it...and then added a new page making it irreversible. He made it impossible for his father to get any money out of his oil company so he could not give Anna any gifts. All of these documents were backdated in order to make it look like they were executed BEFORE the wedding.
Additionally, Pierces lawyers had claimed that they knew nothing about J. Howard wanting to provide for ANS in catchall trust or give her half of his “new community” (amount that his net worth increased during their marriage). HOwever, upon extensive additional discovery including billing statements it was shown that these same attorneys had billed for preparing drafts of possible catchall trusts and corporations that could be set up to provide for ANS.
It doesn’t matter that ANS was terrible with money and didn’t invest wisely. It matters that Pierce secretly ROBBED his father of his assets and blocked his ability to provide for his wife as he wished. Pierce completely controlled the lawyers and paid them off to manipulate and fool the old man. They joked about in private memos even.
It’s disgusting and he needs to punished even if it is posthumously.