A Florida medical examiner said there was no evidence the former Playboy Playmate's death was a crime. Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, suggested on the ABC program "Good Morning America," that drugs had played a role in the death of her daughter. In 1994, she married oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, when she was 26 and he was 89. Marshall, who was worth $1.6 billion, died 14 months later and Smith spent much of the following decade battling his family over the estate. Marshall's family called her a gold digger. But the tangled legal fight is unresolved. A California court awarded her $474 million but another court cut the award to $88 million and an appeals court then ruled she was entitled to nothing. The U.S. Supreme Court last May overturned that ruling and gave Smith another chance to pursue Marshall's fortune.
