456 pages, $28.95
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Chapters |
 Preface
One
accountants portrayed in popular culture
Two
death from overwork
Three
accountants' glamorous world
Four
history of accounting
"Sarbanes-Oxley Blues," words and music written by Headwaters Co-Founder & Chairman Dave Maney
Five
evil taxers
Six
U.S. tax history
Seven
IRS history
Eight
Al Capone, FDR, LBJ, MLK, Watergate
Nine
Sex of a Hippopotamus
Ten
Tax Court
Eleven
tax return publicity
Twelve
famous wealthy people
Notes
Index
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Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith was 26 when in 1994, she married 89-year-old wheelchair-bound billionaire oil tycoon, J. Howard Marshall II. The family explained that Marshall was distraught over the 1991 death of his wife, Bettye, when he met the young woman at a strip joint. Only, it didn't happen quite that way.
Bettye Marshall was diagnosed with early signs of Alzheimer's in 1982. That's when J. Howard hit the strip joints. There, the 77-year-old met 42-year-old Jewell Dianne ("Lady") Walker who was living with a boyfriend while still married to her fourth husband. Over the next nine years, he lavished over $15 million of gifts on her. Lady Walker died suddenly in 1991, a few months before Bettye. Then Marshall learned that she lived with two other lovers
throughout their relationship whom she kept hidden from him.
IRS found out about the gifts that Marshall gave Anna Nicole Smith and Lady Walker, resulting in Tax Court cases that settled without trial. Among the papers in the Tax Court files is the following undated letter, apparently written in 1991, from Marshall to his son:
Dear Pierce
This package relates to a wonderful lady — indeed her nick name is
“Lady.” Without her I don’t quite know how I would have survived these
last nine years. She is intelligent, gracious and beautiful as her picture will
attest. I am sure you will understand where others might not. I would
marry her tomorrow if there was any honorable way. If I predecease you,
as a father who loves you, I charge you to take care of her in any way she
may need — financially and in all ways. I know I can trust you.
Dad
J. Howard Marshall's will failed to provide for his wife. An estate battle ensued between Anna Nicole Smith and Marshall's son, Pierce. If J. Howard intended to provide for Lady Walker, whom he didn't marry, how much more so he would have intended to provide for his wife, Anna Nicole Smith.
You can read a little about Marshall, Smith, and Walker in the Houston Press article, "Daddy's Money."
You can learn about Marshall's stinginess with charities in the Wall Street Journal article, "College Finally Got Alumnus To Pledge; Next Job: Collecting."
But you'll only read about the Tax Court cases, a judge's opinion about the "Billionaire Without Character," and the rest of the story in:
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