WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal from the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, the late model and TV reality-show star, in the decades-old dispute over an inheritance from her tycoon husband.

The Supreme Court agreed this Tuesday to the request that they hear an appeal from the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, the late actress and Playboy Playmate.

The dispute, which is decades old, involves her tycoon husband’s estate. This is the second time that the case has reached the Supreme Court.

Smith — legally known as Vickie Lynn Marshall — married Texas billionaire Howard Marshall in 1994 after they met at an adult club where she was working. At the time, she was 26 and he 89. Fourteen months later, Marshall died.

Since then, the estate has been in dispute between Marshall’s son Pierce and Smith.

However, Pierce died in 2006, and Smith died in 2007; now her estate and his are battling for Marshall’s inheritance and estate.

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