{"id":290031,"date":"2014-01-29T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290031"},"modified":"2014-01-29T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:00:19","slug":"family-wants-texas-billionaire-simmons-will-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290031","title":{"rendered":"Family Wants Texas Billionaire Simmons Will Sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/01\/Harold-Simmons2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/01\/Harold-Simmons2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Harold Simmons2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-290032\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Recently deceased Texas billionaire Harold Simmons&#8217; wife wants his will sealed by a Dallas court. Attorneys for Annette Simmons are expected to argue Wednesday before a Dallas County probate judge to have the will&#8217;s contents blocked from public view. Simmons, who was born in Golden, in Wood County, rose from poverty to head a sprawling corporate empire with interests ranging from energy to nuclear waste dumps. He donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable causes. He was also well-known in the political world for his funding of Republican and conservative campaigns. He bankrolled the 2004 ads questioning Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam War service. Four years later, he funded ads attacking Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Recently deceased Texas billionaire Harold Simmons&#8217; wife wants his will sealed by a Dallas court. Attorneys for Annette Simmons are expected to argue Wednesday before a Dallas County probate judge to have the will&#8217;s contents blocked from public view. Simmons, who was born in Golden, in Wood County, rose from poverty to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=290031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family Wants Texas Billionaire Simmons Will Sealed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 02:59:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290033,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290031\/revisions\/290033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}