ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: Former "Playboy" playmate Anna Nicole Smith may soon be a megamillionaire. She's been awarded nearly $450 million from the estate of her late billionaire husband. But her court battle is not over yet. Reporter Joe Vasquez of CNN affiliate KPRC has reaction from Anna Nicole Smith.</s>JOE VASQUEZ, KPRC REPORTER (voice-over): Former "Playboy" playmate Anna Nicole Smith talked to me by speaker phone after hearing a judge in Los Angeles had awarded her nearly half a billion dollars.</s>ANNA NICOLE SMITH, FMR. "PLAYBOY" PLAYMATE: Oh my gosh, this is wonderful news. But I don't know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow.</s>VASQUEZ: She's referring to her case in a Houston probate court where she's suing to try and get half of her late husband's estate. She says her husband, Texas oil baron J. Howard Marshall, had promised her half of his estate, estimated to be worth has much as $1.6 billion. But Marshall's will left it all to the younger of his two sons.</s>SMITH: No one ever took care of me my whole life. And this man did and I loved him for that.</s>SMITH: Smith had also filed for bankruptcy in a Los Angeles federal court, but one of her husband's sons, Pierce Marshall, sued her in that same court. Smith then countersued, and now that federal judge has decided in Anna Nicole's Smith's favor, saying Pierce Marshall, quote, "tortuously deprived Smith of her expectancy of an inheritance." The judge awarded Smith more than $449 million. At this point, it still unclear what kind of impact the Los Angeles ruling will have on the Houston proceedings.</s>SMITH: Well, I hope it ends up, you know, like my husband wanted it to. I hope it ends up that I get everything that he wanted me to have.</s>HALL: That report from Joe Vasquez of our affiliate KPRC.
Anna Nicole Smith Wins $450M From Late Billionaire Husband's Estate