Bahamas is Anna Nicole Smith New “Home”
Category: Relationship, Celebrity News, GossipThe former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas after most of the parties feuding over her corpse reached a deal on Thursday to lay her to rest next to her dead son, Daniel Smith. Choking back tears, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin had earlier placed Smith’s body — rapidly decomposing two weeks after her unexplained death at age 39 in a Florida hotel casino — into the custody of a court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
The guardian, Miami lawyer Richard Milstein, decided on the Bahamas after Seidlin stopped short of issuing the order himself at the end of six days of theatrical and melodramatic court hearings, and then persuaded at least two of the three warring factions to agree to it.
“I’m very grateful that Anna Nicole’s wishes are going to be carried out,” said Smith’s longtime lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, who wanted to have her buried next to her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas, where he died five months ago.Â
Speaking to reporters outside the Fort Lauderdale court where Stern, Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead and Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, fought over the corpse, lawyers for Stern and Birkhead said they could not give any details about the funeral, but hoped it would be private.
The decision appeared to mean the legal tussle over the former topless dancer, famous in life for her bountiful bust, was all but over. But Milstein and Arthur’s attorney said Smith’s estranged mother would appeal, likely delaying the release of the body. -Source: Reuters-
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