Battle rages in Fla court over Anna Nicole’s unburied body
As the court battle continued over possession of Anna Nicole Smith’s body, a medical examiner announced in the Florida that her body was deteriorating rapidly.
Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper was called into the court session yesterday to let the legal counsel, who are battling over her body, know that her body was deteriorating faster than was normal. He said the persons who embalmed her body Saturday had discovered this while performing the procedure and in light of this discovery, her body needed to be examined as soon as possible. In a live broadcast in the Florida court room yesterday, Howard K Stern and Anna Nicole’s estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, went on the stand separately to explain why either he or she should have custody of the body. Mr Stern made a startling revelation to the court yesterday when he said that Anna Nicole always thought she would have died young.
“Anna in a lot of ways thought she was going to die young and thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe,” Mr Stern said to the court room. “She [also] thought she was going to die giving birth to Dannielynn.”
He added that Anna Nicole was adamant about being buried in The Bahamas near her late son, Daniel Smith, who died September 10, 2006 in Doctor’s Hospital.
“She died emotionally when Daniel died,” Mr Stern said. “She had real problems accepting Daniel was gone.
“For the most part, Anna didn’t leave her room [when Daniel died].”
On the other side of the country in California, the paternity case for Anna Nicole’s baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope, also continued with the attorneys for Larry Birkhead, the man who claims to be Dannielynn’s father, trying to force Howard K Stern, the man listed on the birth certificate as the baby’s father, to submit the child for DNA testing.
On Friday the Florida circuit judge Larry Seidlin announced that Anna Nicole had written a will five years ago leaving her estate in the care or her lawyer and companion Howard K Stern to be held for her now-deceased son, Daniel Smith. Even so, it could not be determined yesterday if it was still applicable for Mr Stern to take control of her estate considering Daniel’s death and the recent birth of Anna Nicole’s five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope.
Judge Seidlin also ordered that Anna Nicole’s body be embalmed yesterday. During a court hearing Thursday, he said he was concerned about the time her body would have to wait before being buried as attorneys battled in a Florida Court over whether The Bahamas or Texas should be the final resting place for the late Anna Nicole Smith, who died recently in Florida. The lawyers also argued whether it was necessary to take additional DNA samples from Ms Smith’s body.
By Inderia Saunders
The Nassau Guardian
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frannie said,
February 25, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
I am really hopeing they let the mother take the daughter home and the real father of the son Daniel comes and gets him and takes him back to Texas . I hope the officials investigate Sterns over all of this for he was allowing his pregnant wife to take narcotic during her pregnancy ,ordering them for her and picking them up and then the son dies of drug overdose and he was with Sterns that day ,come on and investigate this guy and get that baby away from him and let her become a ward of the court until this all blows over and the DNA is done .