Anna Nicole Smith

New photos show Smith in bed with Bahamian immigration minister
New photos show Smith in bed with Bahamian immigration minister - CNN.com

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- A newspaper published two photographs on its front page Monday showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed fully clothed in an embrace with the Bahamian immigration minister, who approved her application for permanent residency.

Immigration Minister Shane Gibson has come under criticism from the political opposition for giving the former Playboy Playmate special treatment in granting Smith -- who died Thursday in Florida -- residency in the Bahamas last year.

The residency application was based on Smith's purported ownership of a waterfront mansion. But G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who once dated Smith, has said he had not given Smith the house as a gift as her lawyers have asserted. Thompson is attempting to reclaim the house.

A representative of Anna Nicole Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, scrambled on Monday to control dissemination of items he said were stolen from the mansion over the weekend before he returned from Florida, including images from a computer taken from the house.

Ron Rale, Stern's spokesman, said in a statement Monday that anyone who disseminates any of the items without his prior written consent "will be held liable to the fullest extent of the law." Rale said police have recovered all the missing property.

Two photographs published on the front page of The Tribune of Nassau show Smith and Gibson looking into each other's eyes with their faces only a couple inches apart while lying on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon. The newspaper said the photographs were taken in Smith's bedroom and that it obtained the pictures Sunday from an unidentified source.

Opposition leader Hubert Ingraham said he was looking into the matter.

"I'm making some inquiries," Ingraham told The Associated Press.

All of Smith's personal items, including the birth certificate of her 5-month-old daughter, whose paternity is being disputed by three men, had been taken from the house, Rale said.

Stern over the weekend reclaimed the Bahamas mansion along with 5-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. They had lived in the gated waterfront estate, known as "Horizons," before Smith died last week.

Stern said he is trying to keep Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, who traveled from the United States and went to the gates of the mansion on Sunday, from seeing Dannielynn.

"She just despised that woman," Stern said, in a video segment broadcast Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"As long as I have one breath left in my body that woman will not see Dannielynn," Stern said.

Arthur told "Good Morning America" that she fears for Dannielynn's safety, pointing out that Stern has been present when Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, died under mysterious circumstances in a Bahamas hospital room while visiting his mother days after Dannielynn was born.

A coroner hired by Smith's family said Daniel died in September from a lethal combination of drugs, including methadone. An inquest into his death is scheduled to begin March 27.

"I do have a problem with her being with Howard Stern," Arthur said. "I had a daughter and I had a grandson. He was there when both of them died. Now I only have a granddaughter left, and now he has her, and I'm afraid for her."

Stern is listed on a birth certificate as Dannielynn's father. But two other men have challenged the claim. (Watch how the two squared off on camera )

A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father. On Friday, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, announced that he had a decade-long affair with Smith and he may be the girl's father.

The New York Daily News has reported that a manuscript it obtained says Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.

Since Marshall's death in 1995, Smith had been waging a court battle over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million, but that was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.

Experts say the decision of who receives custody could determine the child's inheritance
 
She always my favorite no matter what she went through hell! or being idiotic..

RIP Anna!... find the light and fly free..

we all pray for her daughter and he life.. not going through battle like Anna does..

:tears: farawell Anna.. :hug: Dannielynn -- live well!
 
Prince Frederic von Anhalt!!! I know his reputation. Oh yes, he struggle with money issues... No Wonder that he tried to claim Anna's millions... :roll:

That men who claim is father of Anna's daughter AFTER her death... :roll: Why can't they claim BEFORE she died... No Wonder... MONEY.... I won't buy their stories... I beleive that Howard is father of Anna's daughter period.
 
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Prince Frederic von Anhalt!!! I know his reputation. Oh yes, he struggle with money issues... No Wonder that he tried to claim Anna's millions... :roll:

That men who claim is father of Anna's daughter AFTER her death... :roll: Why can't they claim BEFORE she died... No Wonder... MONEY.... I won't buy their stories... I beleive that Howard is father of Anna's daughter period.
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Yes... you got it!

Whoever run after Anna's $ reason they are smell for money!
 
I just read that story and have been watching the story evolve. I am now seeing that they are saying that she died with a 105 degree temperature. She was ill and in despite of that a few days be4 she passed she had slipped in the tub and had hurt herself. She could have been hemorrhaging blood and also fall that ill. Stern's sister stated that she tried to get Anna to go to the dr. but anna did not go because she thought it would bring to much publicity. I dont understand why there is so much war over her daughter in paternity, its sounds like the men just want to be claiming something that was Anna's pride and joy. Also they are now reinvestigating her son Daniel's death. Why can't they find out why she died and then as they do that test the DNA of who is the father. I have one question, could the baby's father be her dead son's? if its none of the men that are battling over her. apparently the diet pill and her antibotics and other drugs that were found could give in to the death. What if Stern killed her with the way he seems to be saying that he left her 2 hours be4 she was found in the state she was by her nurse? If so, then why does he want to be her daughter's father when he could kill her too. This just seems a money battle.

Anyhow, RIP Anna Smith
 
Anna Nicole Smith's last film due in May
Anna Nicole Smith's last film due in May - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last movie made by stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, a sci-fi comedy titled "Illegal Aliens," will be released on DVD in May, its distributor said on Tuesday.

The film stars Smith, who died last week in Florida, as one of three aliens who transform themselves into "super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from intergalactic forces of evil," according to press materials from MTI Home Video, which will distribute the movie through DVD outlets.

MTI spokesman Ed Baran described "Illegal Aliens," which is unrated, as a low-budget, deliberately "high-camp" production in which Smith lampoons her own ditsy sex-bomb image.

No release is planned for movie theaters, Baran said.

Filmmakers clearly had no Oscar ambitions for the 93-minute movie, which was shot in September 2005 in Vermont, Los Angeles and New York.

A trailer, posted on the Web site of the production company, Edgewood Studios (www.edgewoodstudios.com), shows Smith's character, Lucy, shouting, "Nobody sticks a missile in Lucy's butt and gets away with it!"

In another scene, she appears tied up to a chair and laments, "Who do I have to screw to get off this movie?"

Smith invested her own money in the project and even took part in scripting her role. Her son, Daniel, who died in the Bahamas in September at age 20, three days after Smith gave birth to her daughter, was credited as an associate producer on the film, Baran said.

"A lot of people really want to make her out to be some idiot but I really don't think that she was," Baran said. "She's poking fun at herself within the film so I think it's pretty damn smart."

The former stripper and Playboy magazine centerfold died Thursday of unknown causes while enmeshed in a paternity suit over her infant daughter and a long-running dispute over the fortune left by an elderly oil tycoon she married in 1994.

Smith, who was 39, previously starred in her own cable TV reality series, "The Anna Nicole Smith Show." She has appeared in a handful of movies, beginning in 1994 with "The Hudsucker Proxy" and the big-screen spoof "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult."

Baran said the timing of distribution of Smith's last film was coincidental to her death, with MTI having submitted it to retailers for sale this coming spring about a week and a half before she died. Smith had planned to take part in a publicity campaign for the film, he said.
 
Claims raise questions about prince
Claims raise questions about prince - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES - Zsa Zsa Gabor once said: "Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended."

Her flamboyant husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, says he did more than just go out. He claims he carried on a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be the father of her baby daughter.

His out-of-left-field assertion has been met largely with disbelief and boosted curiosity about the man who, the British press reports, may have paid a bankrupt princess for his title. He denies those reports.

Von Anhalt is also known for making outrageous statements about the advantages of being rich, laying claim to a German castle and suing Viagra for leaving him unable to have sex unless he takes the drug. He later dropped the case.

Even his age has been questioned. He says he's 59; the German press puts him in his mid 70s.

Since making his claim the day after Smith died, von Anhalt has appeared on a number of news shows. Speaking in a thick German accent and wearing a ring that resembles a crown, he sometimes played it coy and other times gushed with details.

Bonnie Stern, the sister of Howard K. Stern, who is listed as the father of Smith's baby on her birth certificate, calls von Anhalt's assertions "nauseating."

"She didn't even know him," Bonnie Stern says.

Ronald Jason Palmieri, the longtime attorney for Gabor and von Anhalt, says: "I believe the odds of him ending up to be the parent of this child are remote to none."

Palmieri, who isn't working on the paternity matter, also says he spoke with Gabor about the situation.

"She said, 'Ron dahling, do you believe this? It's so embarrassing,'" the lawyer recounts, mimicking Gabor's famous Hungarian accent.

Born Hans Robert Lichtenberg, von Anhalt says he grew up in a poor German family and was abused by his policeman-father and pushed to become a military officer. Over the years he worked as a bank clerk, screenwriter, sauna manager and soccer player.

"I had a very hard childhood," he says, recalling how he sought escape in movies and newspaper articles about Hollywood celebrities, including Gabor, then a sex symbol.

To hear von Anhalt tell it, he gained his royal title through an act of kindness in the late 1950s, when he became good friends with the son of Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt. When her son died in a car accident, von Anhalt comforted the princess.

His own parents dead, he says she adopted him in 1980 and gave him the title of Prince Frederic von Anhalt of Munich, the Duke of Saxony — or Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, as he is also known.

He acknowledges making millions of dollars by passing the family title to at least 10 other people.

"If someone offers you $2 million, you do it," von Anhalt says.

He says Gabor was as intrigued by the promise of gaining a title as he was about being tied to Hollywood royalty. The two were married in 1987. She now goes by Princess von Anhalt and Duchess of Saxony.

"We didn't marry for love," he says. "It was a friendship, but when you're with someone over a certain time you fall in love."

After Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer in 1989, von Anhalt said the rich were entitled to better treatment.

"They bring the money into Beverly Hills," he said at the time.

In the 1990s, title and celebrity in tow, von Anhalt tried to lay claim to the von Anhalt family castle in Germany. He enticed the town mayor with a personal note from Ronald and Nancy Reagan and sent jewels later found to be glass and aluminum. He says it was Chanel costume jewelry.

Von Anhalt says he and Smith met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

Asked how he managed the alleged affair, he claimed they met in hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, even though he takes care of his 90-year-old wife. She uses a wheelchair after being partially paralyzed in a car accident in 2005.

"You can have an affair in 10 minutes," von Anhalt said.

Then he contradicted himself.

"I never talk about my private life anyway," he said. "They will never know because I don't talk."
 
Police operator's call revealed
The Sun Online - News: Police operator's call revealed

A DRAMATIC tape of a call made to paramedics as centrefold Anna Nicole Smith lay dying was released last night.

In it, a police operator tells medics: “She’s not breathing, she’s not responsive. She’s, um, actually Anna Nicole Smith.”

Cops were called to room 607 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, California, last Thursday.

They were on the scene in six minutes. Anna Nicole was pronounced dead in hospital an hour later.

The tape was released as it was claimed Anna Nicole was admitted to hospital last April as she battled drugs while pregnant with baby daughter Dannielynn.

To hear the full police tape click here

Ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, 34, who claims he is the dad, say they split after she refused to give them up before Dannielynn’s birth.

He said: “I can’t help but thinking, ‘Could I have saved Anna if I was with her?’ It keeps playing out in my head. I watched over her to make sure she was safe . . . I had no control over what she did or anyone else around her did.”

He says her lawyer lover Howard K Stern — who also claims to be the dad and has Dannielynn in his care in the Bahamas — came between them.

Anna Nicole’s pal Jackie Hatten, 34, claims she saw her take several drugs, including Valium and morphine. She said: “She was asleep at the wheel of life.”

Jackie also claimed Anna Nicole did not love Stern, and had told her Birkhead was the father.

She said: “She loved Larry, but Howard didn’t want anyone close to her.”

Stern is refusing to give up the child and yesterday claimed he and Anna Nicole, 39, had planned to marry in two weeks.

Her ex-bodyguard Alexander Denk, meanwhile, is now the FIFTH man claiming to be the baby’s father.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt is another candidate.

It is also said Anna Nicole froze the sperm of her late oil billionaire husband, 89, and may have used it. The father is set to take control of the £240million Dannielynn could inherit from him.
 
Anna Nicole Smith photo shock
Anna Nicole Smith photo shock | Herald Sun

NEW photos of Anna Nicole Smith romantically embracing the Bahamian Immigration Minister have surfaced amid claims she may have received favoured treatment for residency.

The photos were released as the saga of Smith's death continued.
Howard K. Stern, who claims to be the father of her five-month-old daughter, said in an interview he'd never let Dannielynn forget her mother.

But as Mr Stern made his promise, Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said he was now going to court to prove he was the child's real father.

A third man, freelance journalist Larry Birkhead, is also claiming paternity of Dannielynn, who stands to inherit part of a $2 billion estate.

The new photos were splashed across the front of The Tribune newspaper in Nassau, the Bahamas.

It shows her lying on a bed with Bahamian Immigration Minister Shane Gibson.

They are both fully clothed but Smith has her arm around the minister and they are looking into each other's eyes.

Mr Gibson approved the former Playboy Playmate of the Year's application for permanent residency on the island.

The Opposition party has accused Mr Gibson of giving Smith special treatment. The residency application was apparently fast-tracked.

The minister's mother was looking after Dannielynn when Smith, 39, collapsed in a Florida hotel room last Thursday.

An early autopsy failed to pinpoint the cause of death but she was seen partying in a bar in the hours before her collapse.

Investigators found so many bottles of prescription drugs in her hotel room they likened it to

a pharmacy.

Another photo, on celebrity website TNZ.com, reportedly showed the fridge in the Bahamas house stocked with nothing but diet drinks and methadone.

But the Bahamian lawyer for Mr Stern, Wayne Munroe, told the New York Post the photograph was staged.

TV show Entertainment Tonight last night aired footage of its interview with Mr Stern, filmed less than 48 hours after Smith's death.

He said he just wanted Smith to be with (son) Daniel: "I hope they're happy . . . she was such a wonderful person."

Son Daniel died in September from a drug overdose and Mr Stern said she couldn't accept it.

He also sobbed: "Anna was my whole world, every minute of every day. She was my best friend. My lover."

Mr Stern said he would fight for custody.
 
Anna Nicole still scandalous in death
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A Bahamas newspaper published two photographs on its front page today showing Anna Nicole Smith lying in bed fully clothed in a romantic embrace with the Bahamian immigration minister who approved her application for permanent residency.

Opposition politicians accuse Shane Gibson of giving special treatment to the former Playboy Playmate who died under mysterious circumstances in Florida on Thursday local time. Smith was awarded residency in the Bahamas last year.

The residency application was based on Smith's ownership claim of a waterfront mansion. But G Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer who used to date Smith, is disputing claims that he gave her the house and is attempting to reclaim the property.

Two photographs published on the front page of The Tribune of Nassau show Smith and Gibson looking into each other's eyes with their faces only a few centimetres apart while lying on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon.

The newspaper said the photographs were taken in Smith's bedroom and it obtained the pictures yesterday from an unidentified source.

Opposition Leader Hubert Ingraham said he was looking into the matter.

Smith's partner, lawyer Howard K Stern, reclaimed the Bahamas mansion over the weekend and is staying there with five-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. They had lived in the gated waterfront estate, known as Horizons, before the former Playboy Playmate died last week.

Stern is listed on a birth certificate as Dannielynn's father. But two other men have challenged the claim.

A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father, and on Friday, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, announced he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may be the girl's father.

The New York Daily News has reported a manuscript it obtained says Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.

Since Marshall's death in 1995, Smith had been waging a court battle over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $US474 million (about $A600 million), but that was later overturned. But in May, the US Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.

Experts say the decision of who receives custody could determine the child's inheritance.
 
Anna Nicole filmed in bed with politician
Anna Nicole filmed in bed with politician | Herald Sun

PICTURES of a bedroom romp involving Anna Nicole Smith and the politician who approved her bid to live in the Bahamas have been splashed on newspaper front pages today, amid fresh revelations about her lifestyle.

The latest snippet from celebrity-watchers is that Smith's fridge at her Bahamas home contained only the powerful narcotic methadone and cans of the diet drink Slim-Fast.

A celebrity news website, tmz.com, said it had obtained photographs which revealed the contents of the fridge in the home's bedroom.

Meanwhile, photos published on the front page of The Tribune of Nassau show Smith pictured with Bahamian immigration minister Shane Gibson, who awarded her permanent residency.

While the pair are clothed, the Associated Press reports they are "looking into each other's eyes with their faces only a few centimetres apart while lying on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon".

Mr Gibson has come under fire from political opponents for allegedly giving Smith special treatment.

Smith died after collapsing in a Florida casino hotel room last Friday at the age of 39.

She had long battled addiction to prescription drugs, which she frequently combined with large quantities of alcohol.

Methadone was found in the system of her son, Daniel, whose drug-related death at the age of 20 five months ago is still being investigated in the Bahamas.

Originally developed by Nazi scientists, the drug - now frequently prescribed as a powerful painkiller - has been involved in an increasing number of overdose deaths in the US in recent years.

Medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to almost 3000 deaths in the US in 2003 - an almost 400 per cent increase since 1999. Most deaths involved methadone being mixed with mind-altering psychiatric drugs, which were also found in Daniel Smith's system.

Meanwhile, the battle for custody of Smith's heir, five-month-old Dannielynn, has intensified.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, told the Associated Press today he would launch a legal case this week.

"I'm going to make the DNA test," he was quoted as saying. "If the court rules in my favour, I will go to the Bahamas and pick up the child."

Smith's lawyer and boyfriend Howard Stern, who's name is on the birth certificate, earlier denounced Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, who arrived in the Bahamas demanding to see her granddaughter.

Mr Stern, who sold an interview of his grieving over Smith to a US television show, said Smith had wanted nothing to do with her mother.

"As long as I have a breath in my body, that woman will not see Dannielynn," Mr Stern said. "She has no right. She can't take Anna's baby."

Ms Arthur and another daughter, Donna Hogan - who has written a scathing tell-all book about Smith - have reportedly thrown in their lot with paparazzo Larry Birkhead.

Birkhead said he had a two-year relationship with Smith and was with her when she went to the doctor and saw the baby with an ultrasound machine.

Estranged relatives of Smith see Mr Stern as a Svengali-like character and some even believe he was somehow involved in Daniel Smith's death.

Birkhead's lawyer in Los Angeles, Debra Opri, said she feared Mr Stern would try to switch babies during a court-mandated DNA sampling procedure which must be done by February 20 so a paternity ruling can be made.

Sadly, Dannielynn has become something of a winning lottery ticket because of the possibility she could inherit up to $US500 million ($650 million) from the estate of Smith's late husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. Marshall's other heirs have vowed to fight to stop Smith's estate from getting any of the $US1.6 billion fortune Marshall left behind.
 
Anna Nicole Smith death tape released
Anna Nicole Smith death tape released | The World | The Australian

ANNA Nicole Smith was unresponsive and not breathing when an Indian tribe's police department requested help from paramedics, according to a tape released today.
Audio: The 911 call
In the 31-second call, the Seminole tribal police department asked paramedics for help in assisting Smith, who was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on the tribe's reservation in Hollywood, Florida.

"She's not breathing, and she's not responsive. She's, um, actually Anna Nicole Smith," the woman from the Seminole Police is heard saying in asking for help in Room 607.

"Oh, OK," a woman at the Hollywood Police Department responds.

Officials say they were on the scene six minutes after the call. Smith, a former Playboy playmate, model and reality TV character, was pronounced dead about an hour later at a hospital.

Hollywood Police Capt. Tony Rode, who played the tape for the media, referred all questions to the Seminole Police Department, which did not immediately respond to a call for comment.

"This investigation belongs to the Seminole Police Department," Mr Rode said. "You are looking at the extent of our role."

The initial emergency call to the Seminole Police was not released; the Seminoles are a sovereign Indian nation and not subject to state open government laws.

Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, wasn't with her when she died, but he had been there that morning, and he knew she was very sick, his sister, Bonnie Stern, said. Smith had been running a fever, and a nurse was "icing her down" earlier that day, she said.

"When he left her, she was sleeping," Bonnie Stern said.

Howard Stern had been gone only about two hours when news reached him that Smith was dead, his sister said.

Bonnie Stern, who recently travelled from her Beverly Hills home to the Bahamas to comfort her brother, said he had tried to get Smith to visit a doctor but Smith had refused because she was afraid that it would draw publicity.

"They had plans to get a yacht and to buy an engagement ring. They were going to get married February 27. It was going to be a real marriage," she said.

Asked what she thought caused Smith's death, Bonnie Stern said: "Her immunity was so low. She was so depressed. She kept getting sick and her body just probably broke down."

Smith had never recovered from the loss of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who died in the Bahamas in September while visiting his mother and newborn half-sister at a hospital, friends said. She had also spent a decade battling in court over the estate of her late husband, the 90-year-old Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

Alex Goen, the founder and CEO of TrimSpa, knew Smith well from working with her as a company spokesmodel and said she suffered from social anxiety, as well, even after years in the celebrity spotlight.

"She was clearly incredibly misunderstood," Mr Goen told CBS's "The Early Show" today.

Smith had gone through drug rehabilitation in the past, and her mother, Vergie Arthur, has blamed drugs for her daughter's death.

Smith had met Mr Stern in 1996 when she was referred to his law firm, Bonnie Stern said.

"He started doing her legal work and then he became her confidant. They became best friends and then he fell in love with her," she said.

Mr Stern, 38, is listed on a birth certificate as the father of Smith's baby girl. He said in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight" that he is the executor of a will drafted for Smith that will leave everything to the little girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

Another man, Larry Birkhead, also claims to be the father, and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, recently said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and might be the baby's father. Prince Von Anhalt said yesterday that he plans to file a paternity challenge in court and wants a DNA test.

Birkhead told New York's Daily News that he and Smith had meticulously planned for the birth of the child, but that after they broke up he was pushed to the side.

"Howard has never liked me and he never wanted me and Anna to be together," Birkhead, 34, told the Daily News. "After she got pregnant, things went quickly downhill because of his difference of opinion on several matters."

Birkhead recounted how he had tried to save Smith from her risky lifestyle. He said Smith left him because of his attempts to intervene. The couple split early last northern summer.

"I watched over her to make sure she was safe, and once I was basically pushed to the side," he said, "I had no control over what she did or anyone else around her did."

Bonnie Stern said "there were times of some intimacy" between Birkhead and Smith, but said, "Larry Birkhead was not her boyfriend."
 
Anna Nicole Smith May Finally Be Able To Be Buried
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Anna Nicole Smith is a step closer to being able to rest in peace.

A Los Angeles judge is agreeing to end the hold on Smith's body, which has been in place since the day after she died.

It's part of the battle between two of the men claiming to be the father of Smith's baby. Larry Birkhead asked for the hold last week, so a DNA sample could be taken from Smith.

Wednesday, though, the judge says the DNA was preserved during the autopsy. So he's agreeing to end the hold -- a request that came from Howard K. Stern, the man listed on the baby's birth certificate.

Now, lawyers in Florida will have to ask a judge to free Smith's body for burial. That judge had earlier ordered the morgue to keep the body, because of the hold that had been ordered in California.
 
Anna Nicole's Last Wishes
Anna Nicole's Last Wishes, Partner Says She Wanted To Be Buried Near Son, Estate Goes To Daughter - The ShowBuzz

(CBS) As the battle for possession of Anna Nicole Smith's remains heats up, her partner Howard K. Stern says that she wished to be buried next to her son Daniel who died on Sept. 10 and that her estate will go to her daughter, Dannielynn.

"After Daniel died, we had this discussion. I know what Anna wants. I am going to carry those (wishes) out," Stern told "Entertainment Tonight."

"She wanted to be near Daniel and she wanted (Howard) to have the baby that is theirs," Stern's sister Bonnie Stern confirmed.

According to TMZ, Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, has retained counsel to obtain Smith's body.

Bonnie Stern says that Smith would "turn over in her grave" if her body was released to her mother.

Smith claimed that her mother abused her.

"You want to hear all the things she did to me? All the beatings and whippings? That's my mother," Smith said in an interview airing on ET Wednesday. "That's my mom."

Stern said that the division of Smith's estate, which could include an award in her battle for a portion of her ex-husband J. Howard Marshall II's millions, is detailed in a will executed in 2001.

"Everything went to her son, Daniel," said Stern. "But now because Daniel is gone, and Dannielynn is her only child… everything goes to Dannielynn. Everything. I am named as the executor."
 
Stern: Anna And I Were Planning A Wedding
Stern: Anna And I Were Planning A Wedding, In First Interview, Partner Howard K. Stern Said They Were To Wed In Two Weeks - The ShowBuzz

(CBS/AP) Howard K. Stern says that he and Anna Nicole Smith were planning to wed in a top-secret ceremony this month. The couple exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in September, but it was not a legal wedding.

"We were going to make everything legally binding in less than two weeks," he told "The Insider" and "Entertainment Tonight" on a private jet bound for the Bahamas this weekend. "I can't even talk about it."

Stern said he was so overcome with grief after Smith's death Thursday in Hollywood, Fla., that he spent 36 hours in a row lying in bed in his hotel room.

He said he only got out of bed so he could be reunited in the Bahamas with Smith's 5-month-old baby, Dannielynn. Stern is listed as the father on the baby's birth certificate, but two other men have claimed paternity

"I have to be strong," said a tearful Stern. "For Dannielynn and to protect Anna. (Dannielynn) is the only reason why I'm still on this earth. Anna was my whole world. Every minute of every day she was my best friend, my lover."

Stern vowed that he will fight to keep custody of Dannielynn.

"They aren't going to take my baby. They are not going to take Anna's baby, never," Stern said.

Stern was not with the former Playboy playmate when she died but he knew she was very sick, his sister says.

Stern had told his sister that Smith was running a fever of 105 degrees shortly before her death on Thursday, and that a nurse was "icing her down" earlier that day at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

"When he left her, she was sleeping," Bonnie Stern said.

He had been gone only about two hours when news reached him that Smith was dead, she said. A private nurse had called the emergency dispatcher after finding the former model unresponsive.

Smith's former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a suit claiming he is the father of Dannielynn, and Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said Monday he will also file a claim of paternity.

Meanwhile, the New York Daily News reported Saturday that a manuscript written by Smith's half-sister, Donna Hogan, says Smith may have used the frozen sperm of her late husband, 90-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall II, to impregnate herself.

Stern told "Entertainment Tonight" that he's fighting to keep Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, from gaining custody of the baby.

"Anna, she despised that woman," Stern said. "Despised that woman."

Asked if he had a message for Smith's fans, Stern said that he would want them to pray for her.

"I want them to pray that she is safe. And she is happy with Daniel. That's it," he said. "I just want her to be with Daniel and I hope now that they are happy. I just hope that, wherever she is, that she doesn't have that. After everything that she's been dragged through here in this life, it wasn't fair. She's such a wonderful person."
 
Judge: OK to Release Anna Nicole's Body
Judge: OK to Release Anna Nicole's Body | Anna Nicole Smith : People.com

Anna Nicole Smith's body can be released, a California judge said on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Florida Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda, citing a California court's order for DNA testing on Smith, ruled that the former Playmate's body should be held as part of the ongoing custody battle over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. A Los Angeles judge subsequently rescinded the DNA order, which opens the way for the body to be released.

"California has no need for the body of Anna Nicole," James Neavitt, an attorney for Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, told the Associated Press.

However, Smith's body will remain at least one more night in the medical examiner's office in Florida after a judge there postponed a ruling Wednesday on a request from Stern, to have the body released to him for burial.

The probate hearing on Stern's request will resume at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

Earlier in the day, attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, 34, one of a few men claiming to be the baby's father, had petitioned a Florida court to uphold the earlier California ruling for DNA tests. However, his lawyer Debra Opri, issued a statement saying they would not fight the release of the body.

"Based upon the determination of our lab this weekend that we had sufficient DNA samples, we notified both parties we have no problem with the release of the body of Anna Nicole Smith," Opri said in a statement Wednesday. "We are satisfied at this point that a Florida court will turn over the DNA samples necessary to satisfy the California courts paternity test order."

Broward County's medical examiner, Joshua Perper, has warned that Smith's remains are decomposing and should be released as soon as possible.

It's not clear who it will take charge of Smith's body once it's released.

Stern has said he wants to carry out Smith's wishes to be buried in the Bahamas near her son Daniel, who died last fall. Smith's estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, also has said she wants to obtain the body, for possible burial in Smith's native Texas.

Ron Rale, the attorney who had represented Smith in the paternity court battle, said: "According to Anna's wishes, it (the body) should be released to Howard Stern, not to Vergie. No one should go about touching Anna Nicole."

In an earlier court development in the Bahamas, Stern was ordered not to take Smith's daughter Dannielynn from the country, a judge ruled Tuesday after hearing pleas from the late centerfold's mother.

Justice Stephen Isaacs granted Arthur's request for an injunction against Stern's taking Dannielynn out of the country after the grandmother stated that she fears for the baby's safety should she be placed in the care of Anna Nicole's partner.

Though Stern is listed as the father on Dannielynn's birth certificate, Arthur believes that the father is really photographer Larry Birkhead, who has a lawsuit pending in which he claims paternity. A hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday.

"I'd like to see the baby," Arthur told New York's Daily News. "I'd like to see Larry have the child."

Stern has said that he'll never let Anna Nicole's mother have the baby. "Anna, she just despised that woman," he told Entertainment Tonight. "As long as I have one breath left in my body, that woman will not see Dannielynn."

Meanwhile, the Bahamian official who was photographed cavorting on a bed with Anna Nicole is denying that his friendship with the former Playmate influenced his decision to grant her residency on the Caribbean island.

The Tribune of Nassau published front-page photos on Monday of Smith embracing Immigration Minister Shane Gibson in a bed, both fully clothed. The images were allegedly taken from a computer stolen from Smith's waterfront residence, according to Stern. He told Entertainment Tonight that he had photographed the pair.
 
Anna Nicole Smith's body lies in legal limbo
Anna Nicole Smith's body lies in legal limbo - CNN.com

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- Judges on both coasts weighed in Wednesday on what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's body amid the custody dispute over her infant daughter, moving closer to releasing the former Playboy Playmate's body for burial.

A Florida judge, citing a California court's order last week for DNA testing on Smith's body, ordered a morgue not to release it.

A Los Angeles judge, however, quickly lifted a request that the body be held. (Watch CNN's Jeff Toobin try to untangle the legal mess )

"California has no need for the body of Anna Nicole," said James Neavitt, an attorney for Howard K. Stern, one of several men claiming paternity of 5-month-old Dannielynn.

Neavitt said Florida officials who performed the autopsy on Smith have preserved her DNA.

Attorneys for Stern went back to Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda in Florida to ask that the body be released.

Korda had ordered the body held for 10 days after a brief meeting in his chambers Wednesday morning with attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the baby's father.

Paternity suit
Birkhead asked the Florida court Tuesday to enforce the California court order for DNA testing filed Friday, the day after Smith died. Nancy Hass, an attorney for Birkhead, said the Birkhead camp feared that accurate DNA testing would not be possible if the body were released and moved out of state.

Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, and Stern had been opposing last week's decision by the Los Angeles judge, fearing that if the body is not embalmed, even though it is refrigerated, it will not be suitable for viewing or funeral purposes.

"We would just want ... to proceed with a proper burial," Ron Rale, the attorney who had represented Smith in the California paternity battle, said before the hearing in Los Angeles.

"No one should go about touching Anna Nicole," Rale said.

Krista Barth, another lawyer for Stern, said Smith made it clear she wanted to be buried in the Bahamas, where her son is buried, and condemned what she said were Arthur's efforts to bury her daughter's body in Texas.

"I think we all know Anna wants to be next to Daniel, and anything else is a tragedy," Barth said.

A Bahamian judge issued an injunction Tuesday preventing the baby from being taken out of the country until the custody case is resolved. Arthur wants to be named guardian of her granddaughter and sought the order because she feared Stern would take the child from the Bahamas, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Arthur has said she fears for the baby's safety, noting Stern was present when Smith died and when Smith's son died in the Bahamas in September, three days after Dannielynn was born. Stern has said Smith hated her mother.

Prompt release of body urged
As the dispute unfolded in court, Broward County medical examiner Joshua Perper filed an affidavit Tuesday urging the prompt release of the body, warning that "any further delay would result in destructive changes to the body."

Susan Brown, who with Hass represented Birkhead at Wednesday's hearing in Florida, said she did not object to Smith being embalmed.

Perper said the model's body will remain refrigerated until he receives a judge's order.

Smith, 39, died February 8 after collapsing at a hotel. She was the widow of billionaire J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family for years over his fortune. (Watch authorities play the 911 tape )

Daniellynn could inherit millions from her mother's estate.

Rale is executor of Smith's estate. He and Stern, a co-executor, are authorized to make funeral arrangements.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of the actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, has said he had a decade-long affair with Smith and may also be the father. He said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge and wants a DNA test.

A hearing was set for next Tuesday in Los Angeles to consider whether DNA from Smith can be used in the paternity case.
 
DVD release for Smith's last film
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | DVD release for Smith's last film

The last film made by model and actress Anna Nicole Smith is to be released in the US on DVD in May, distributors say.
Illegal Aliens, a low-budget, high-camp comedy was partly financed by Smith, a former Playboy model.

She stars as one of three aliens who become "super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from intergalactic forces of evil", says a press release.

Smith died of unknown causes in Florida last week after being found unconscious in a hotel. She was 39.

A paternity row has erupted over her five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, with three men claiming to be the father of the child.

Smith married Texas oil billionaire J Howard Marshall II in 1994, not long after being named Playboy's Playmate of the Year. She was 26 and he was 89.

He died 14 months later, setting the stage for a battle over his estate that pitted Smith against Mr Marshall's son.

The case has not yet been resolved, even though Marshall's son died last year.

Smith's own son Daniel died in September, leaving her daughter as her only surviving offspring.

Film role

Shot in September 2005, Illegal Aliens was Smith's last film project. She had previously featured in The Hudsucker Proxy and the third Naked Gun movie.

A spokesperson for MTI Home Video, which is distributing the film, said the timing of its release had nothing to do with the former model's death.

The company had submitted the DVD to retailers for sale about a week and a half before she died, he said, and Smith had planned to take part in a publicity campaign for the film.
 
Police operator's call revealed
The Sun Online - News: Police operator's call revealed

A DRAMATIC tape of a call made to paramedics as centrefold Anna Nicole Smith lay dying was released last night.

In it, a police operator tells medics: “She’s not breathing, she’s not responsive. She’s, um, actually Anna Nicole Smith.”

Cops were called to room 607 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, California, last Thursday.

They were on the scene in six minutes. Anna Nicole was pronounced dead in hospital an hour later.

The tape was released as it was claimed Anna Nicole was admitted to hospital last April as she battled drugs while pregnant with baby daughter Dannielynn.

Her body is to be held for DNA testing in the paternity dispute, a judge ruled.

Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda granted the request in a brief meeting in his chambers with attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the baby’s father.

To hear the full police tape click here

Ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, 34, who claims he is the dad, say they split after she refused to give them up before Dannielynn’s birth.

He said: “I can’t help but thinking, ‘Could I have saved Anna if I was with her?’ It keeps playing out in my head. I watched over her to make sure she was safe . . . I had no control over what she did or anyone else around her did.”

He says her lawyer lover Howard K Stern — who also claims to be the dad and has Dannielynn in his care in the Bahamas — came between them.

Anna Nicole’s pal Jackie Hatten, 34, claims she saw her take several drugs, including Valium and morphine. She said: “She was asleep at the wheel of life.”

Jackie also claimed Anna Nicole did not love Stern, and had told her Birkhead was the father.

She said: “She loved Larry, but Howard didn’t want anyone close to her.”

Stern is refusing to give up the child and yesterday claimed he and Anna Nicole, 39, had planned to marry in two weeks.

Her ex-bodyguard Alexander Denk, meanwhile, is now the FIFTH man claiming to be the baby’s father.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt is another candidate.

It is also said Anna Nicole froze the sperm of her late oil billionaire husband, 89, and may have used it. The father is set to take control of the £240million Dannielynn could inherit from him.
 
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