We do have to give Anna Nicole Smith credit for her (and her lawyers’) perseverance in the quest to inherit her late husbands millions. However, we do seeing this ending up as a losing battle.

Anna Nicole Smith, who has some experience in seducing geezers, will put her skills to the ultimate test Tuesday when her long-running inheritance drama comes before the U.S. Supreme Court. But Ms. Smith is going to Washington.

“She’s really sort of honored and awed that the court agreed to hear her case,” said her appellate lawyer, Kent Richland. “Anybody would feel those kinds of things, but she’s had a life where there’s been a lot of notoriety,” he said. “It should make all of us kind of happy that those kinds of superficial things don’t matter to the court.”

Smith, whose antics in state court are still being chuckled over in Houston, will be sitting in the spectator’s area and won’t actually speak. And she won’t make the mistake of wearing a hot pink outfit with the word “Spoiled” emblazoned in rhinestones on her most famous assets, as she once did on the stand. “She’ll be demurely dressed,” Richland guaranteed.

The would-be Marilyn Monroe has been fighting for nearly a decade to get half the $1.6 billion estate left by her late husband, Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall. She was 26 and he was 89 when they married in 1994. He died of stomach cancer a year later without mentioning her in his will.

Various courts have alternately sided with Smith or Marshall’s son, Pierce, who went to extraordinary – and often sleazy – lengths to cut Smith out of any money. One court awarded her $475 million, mainly because Pierce Marshall had falsified documents.

The Supreme Court will sort out the contradictions between the different courts. No matter what it decides, the case will return to the lower court level and drag on.

It will be interesting to see what Ms. Smith considers as demure.

Anna Nicole Smith goes to Washington [Daily Dish]