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renaming law school
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isot visionfcBi a North Texas couple, has been
'JiHimed in honor of the benefactors,
v to keepsfeBydministrators at SMU announced
jounreisaMnesday the immediate name
f r sai “' Joge to the Dedman School of Law.
• H.n f l »' aw sc,1 ° o1 alumnus Robert H.
h C ? e ?# man Sr., the billionaire founder
ce Now !■, c ^ a ‘ rman °f ClubCorp, has
mtire nn'l® e cumul ative gifts and pledges
ly ” u )the university with his wife, Nan-
a greater ^ am ‘*y-
on will ensiB he move t0 rename the law
tusofBor 'k ( SMU administrators said,
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at the saint Wy made in April 1997.
be a differr § he Dedmans’ pledge, the largest
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in this anas i| nia te Anna Nicole Smith told jurors she was “penni-
tndsior,taB- | n ear iy 1995 as pjgr a iii n g husband’s son took con-
il of family finances and systematically cut her off, yet
Igflc records are telling another story.
.. Jestitying in the 4 1/2-month-old inheritance trial over
1 ^ toward Marshall ll’s fortune, the 33-year-old
laiSOSpOBl*^ s tepson E. Pierce Marshall was handling his
, f ther’s affairs as early as December 1994, months be-
d* 1 ofalldM^ 16 formaI| y lo °^ guardianship of the 90-year-old
e,, .° |ll 1 millionaire.
is si p sa j c ) j t was pierce Marshall’s influence that limited
p Jiash and gifts flowing from the wheelchair-bound oil
Tp : Jn to his wife, then a fashion model and B-movie ac-
to reach Dot® - t0 ^ tabloid television shows in early 1995 —
ffhe jury this week — that she was so broke her dec
eit v was cut off in her New York mid Los Angeles homes,
gut Rusty Hardin, an attorney for Pierce Marshall,
"“ided Smith through page after page of bank records
^Kday, showing she was solvent and cashing checks for
Sof thousands of dollars in 1995.
i At one point. Smith denied paying a I louston attorney
helped her mount a legal challenge to Pierce Mar-
guardianship, then hack tracked when 1 lard in pro
single gift in school history, launched
a fund-raising effort called the Cam
paign for SMU, which has already
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Making the school
more affordable will
help us attract even'
better students, who
will increase the law
school's ranking.”
— Robert Dedman
donor
surpassed $450 million.
“Robert and Nancy Dedman’s
commitment to SMU through the
years has been truly extraordinary,”
said SMU President R. Gerald Turner.
The Dedman family added $5
million to the $ 15 million for the law
school as a challenge grant. The cur
rent total earmarked for the Dedman
School of Law is $20 million, with
the challenge grant expected to in
crease that total to $25 million in
three years.
Dedman said Dallas needs a top-
tier law school.
“Getting the funds quicker will
enable the school to attract and re
tain even better faculty,” he said.
“Making the school more afford
able will help us to attract even bet
ter students, who will increase the
law school’s ranking and who will
serve as leaders throughout the
Metroplex and the world.”
Two of the university’s six de
gree-granting schools now bear the
Dedman name.
ocuments defy playmate’s
testimony of being penniless
duced a check with her signature. She also denied meet
ing with the attorney in February 1995, while her hus
band was hospitalized for pneumonia, even though a de
tailed bill showed otherwise.
“It must be a mistake,” she said.
Smith also said some family members and at least
one personal aide were authorized to draw on her ac
count. One of those checks, for satellite tefevision ser
vice, was dated one day after her husband died in Au
gust 1995 and was made out for “two-thousand eight
hundred ninety” dollars. Smith said the check was in
the aide’s handwriting.
Hardin and Smith also bickered about the disposition
of her husband’s repiains, which she unsuccessfully
tried to prevent from being cremated. She scolded the
attorney for questioning whether the one-time industry
giant shared her desire of being interred in Marilyn
Monroe’s crypt.
“It’s a Marilyn Monroe issue with me,” Smith said.
“And my husband wanted to be buried with me.”
Smith, who met Howard Marshall II while she was
dancing in a Houston strip club, was 26 and he was 89
when they married in 1994. He died the next year of age-
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