Anna Nicole's lawyer to appeal inheritence decision

Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer has vowed to continue fighting for rights to money left in the will of her late husband J Howard Marshall.

Last week the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overturned a decision by a lower California federal court awarding the former stripper more than $88m (€66.7m) from Marshall's businessman son E Pierce Marshall.

But Smith's lawyer Howard K Stern has pledged to make a request for the full appeals court to rehear the case and will appeal to the US Supreme Court if necessary.

Stern says the court "on a legal technicality, reversed the judgments of two federal courts that found massive fraud and other wrongdoing by E Pierce Marshall by which he deprived (Smith) of the property that her husband intended her to have."

The model-turned-reality-star was 26 when she married the 89-year-old Marshall in 1994. He died less than a year later.