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5 unusual facts about E. Pierce Marshall


E. Pierce Marshall

Teamed with SCCA racers Dave Faust and Kirby Goodman, Marshall drove a Chevrolet Malibu with the 9C1 Police Patrol Package and a 350 cubic inch LT-1 Z-28 Chevrolet Camaro engine, finishing 13th in a field of 47 competitors, completing the run from Darien, Connecticut to Redondo Beach, California in 36 hours, 51 minutes.

According to a Dallas Morning News article, he was a very private man, but became known due to defending the long-running legal dispute from his father's third wife, Anna Nicole Smith.

In a February 9, 2007 interview with Fox News Channel's John Gibson, Rusty Hardin, the family's attorney, said that the family would wait until Smith's immediate affairs in the wake of her sudden death are disclosed before discussing the status of litigation.

In 2012, Bloomberg discovered that Marshall's widow, Elaine Tettemer Marshall, is the 4th richest woman in the United States with an estimated net worth of $12.7 billion.

J. Howard Marshall III

He was disinherited by his father, J. Howard Marshall II, after siding with William Koch in Koch's attempt to take over Koch Industries, Inc. from his brother, Charles Koch; Marshall II, who was a board member of the company, and his other son, E. Pierce Marshall, supported Charles.



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