In October 1991, 86-year-old billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall was wheeled into a Houston strip club, where he met 23-year-old aspiring model,👇👇
Anna Nicole Smith. Smitten instantly, he gave her $1,000 the next day and said, “Don’t go to work, my Lady Love. You never have to go back.”
From there, he lavished her with gifts — a red Mercedes, a Marilyn Monroe bungalow, and over $1 million in jewelry. After she rose to fame as a Playboy model, they married in 1994. Just 14 months later, Marshall died — and the whirlwind love story became a tabloid legend.
