On January 24, 1905, J. Howard Marshall was born in Philadelphia. Though he is now mostly recognized for his marriage to Anna Nicole Smith, he was already a billionaire and an incredibly successful businessman before to meeting the model.
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He attended Yale Law School and later rose to the position of assistant dean. During his tenure at the institution, he also served as a business instructor and contributed an article on oil law to the Yale Law Journal, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Marshall was married twice before he started dating Anna Nicole. James Howard Marshall III and E. Pierce Marshall, his sons from his first marriage to Eleanor Pierce, were born in 1931.
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Following their divorce in 1961, Marshall wed Bettye Bohannon that same year. According to PEOPLE, he allegedly started seeing Anna Nicole very soon after his second wife passed away.
J. Howard Marshall cause of death
Marshall battled cancer late in life and passed away in August 1995 as a result of severe pneumonia.
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