Celebrity Justice
Anna's Body to Be Held for DNA Testing

A Florida judge has ordered that Anna Nicole Smith's body not be released until a DNA test can be performed, as requested by Anna's potential baby daddy, Larry Birkhead.

This decision echoed a a previous ruling by a Los Angeles judge last week, ordering Florida authorities to keep Smith's body for 10 days. Both Howard K. Stern and Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, argued the decision, claiming that if the body is not embalmed soon, it will not be suitable for viewing or funeral purposes. Birkhead's camp argued that accurate DNA testing would not be possible if the body were released and moved out of state.

Meanwhile, Anna's mother is pulling out all the legal stops to ensure that Stern does not get custody of 5-month-old Dannielynn. This morning, Arthur petitioned a Bahamian court to name her the legal guardian of her granddaughter, and asked the judge for an order that forbids the baby to leave the country.

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61. From CNN Breaking News - - "A judge has ruled Anna Nicole Smith’s body must stay at the medical
examiner’s office until a dispute over her daughter’s paternity is
resolved, but Smith’s body can be embalmed."

Posted at 12:23PM on Feb 14th 2007 by JM

62. go gramma! get that baby!

Posted at 12:26PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Sonja

63. Wake up #13. People grow up and make their own decisions. Anna's decisions were all under drug influences that HKS enabled. Anna's mother was a cop, and raised Danny for 6 years along with all her other children as a single mother. It is easy to say trailer trash, etc, but some people have to work for a living, unlike HKS. The reason you don't see tears is because that Grandma is in survival mode. That woman has lost her grandson, daughter and now is fighting to get that baby away from a crazy man. I'm so tired of reading judgmental posts. If you listen to anyone surrounding Anna, they will say that HKS controlled Anna. She was a drug addict, not a bad person. Do you really think the baby would be better off with HKS? It is crazy to blame parents for every decision a person makes. To place blame solely on her mother is crazy. Her mother NEVER enabled her to do drugs. Period. Think what you may think of her mother, but I am tired of judgmental people who think that "trailer" is an excuse to bash people. Obviously Anna had a lot of money, and that didn't solve any of her problems. Stop judging people on the amount of money they have. KARMA

Posted at 12:26PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Julie

64. Anna Nicole's mother is a pyriah. She is the worst possible kind of mother. Anna hated her. Now this troll wants to bury her poor daughter in Texas! Anna Nicole Smith made specific provisions in that will to be buried next to her son. Everybody knows this. I hate this woman. Anna rest in peace............if you can.

Posted at 1:02PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Paul Kline

65. I hope Anna's mom allows her to be buried next to her son as well....although...I see that entire thing as Howard's control to isolate them all once again.. Howard has planned this entire thing out....He knew he was on his way out..he knows that child is not his...He started lining up all his little ducks because he saw his ten years of being supported by his parents and Anna and her fame..good, bad, or indifferent, going down the tubes....He knew he was gone..He counted on the fact that people would chalk up Anna's dying to drug abuse and NOT question it.....What did she know? What did she mean when she screamed at Howard in the hospital it was Howard's fault?

Two dead people on his watch...Two dead people in how many months? What are the chances that is going to happen? No real tears from Howard either!....Yeah..HIS life is over he cries to his sister? How narcissistic is that? HIS LIFE IS OVER? Does no one see that statement for what it is? There are two dead people on his watch! One was his paycheck.....When he spoke about them marrying what did he say? They were going to make it "legal".....who says that when they are in love...Ooopss......slipped...that's right. Make it legal so HE would be the beneficiary of everything!

There is something going on here that goes far beyond Anna's family in Texas guys...and that is, that we can not fail to acknowledge the paranoia Anna felt from drugs....Mother's and daughters have problems and I think Howard Stern fed her paranoia...Has no one noticed him feeding that..even in interviews and his own drug use and slurred speech...HIS obsession with death...his and hers. "I don't think Anna would have made it without Dannielyn." I don't think I could go on without Dannielynn." Give me a break..

Not responsible for her death?...Has no one given any thought to the fact that Anna's baby most likely went through drug withdrawals when she was born? What kind of man allows that if he loves his girlfriend and unborn child? What kind of man doesn't force her into treatment?...He allowed it and he's as guilty as she. Worse....

The guy said he lost his whole life..What life? Where were his friends over the 10 year period. Where are the girlfriends of Howard over 10 years? Where is his life?

His sister states they are close...Well, why is it then that she had only met her niece last week-end.....The child is 5 months old! Spare me the BS.....

He hasn't had a pay check according to his own sister, since 1996! His parents have been supporting him! What kind of a man does that? And what they didn't pay for, he weaseled off of his obsession, Anna Nicole.

He was going to be paid back one way or another...Yup, he was.

Squatting in a house he has no right too....Buying yachts on Anna's dime, while she had a 105 degree temperature and was calling in a doctor to see her...yet he couldn't stay with her...Why?

Why is he on a plane giving an interview for which he whined for over an hour and managed to shed very few tears 36 hours after his beloveds death? Hes the one profiting from all the interviews. I bet he'll be the one to sell photo's in the future. The guy is a loser!

Any one notice in the video shown of the break in.....it was his body guard who pointed out everything that had been taken...And did anyone notice how Howard went straight to the closet to look in exactly the place where he knew things were hidden....

Why can't this guy look into the camera or look anyone in the eyes? The only time he looks into the camera is to accuse someone...This is an ANGRY passive aggressive guy!

An attorney who was speaking for his own sister last night said Howard lost his objectivity when he got involved with his client. He said as well...Anna was Howard's ONLY client!

Good grief...the writing is on the wall here......Everyone is saying the same thing...Is everyone wrong...or could it just possibly be the ONE person, Howard, who is wrong...

I am very concerned for this little girl...being born to a dysfunctional and drug addicted parent...along with all the other dysfunction and questions surrounding the man who has her in his"care" has already pretty much ensured this child to have an unpleasant life and struggles down the road due to nine months of being nourished by drugs...Everyone around her failed her....

Now she is in the hands of a co-dependent man who is as sick, if not sicker, than Anna........

Personally, I think the only reason she left Larry was because he confronted her about her drug usage while pregnant.....By default, because Howard was such a desperate enabler she allowed him in.

Time to stop criticizing Anna...she's dead....This country can cry out for the truth and help a child...I suggest we do it...

Check please!

Posted at 1:11PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Isabella

66. And I certainly hope THE DOGS are OK and being well cared for by a responsible person!
Thanks for your comment, crazy cat lover! Hope you like dogs as well!

Posted at 12:57PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Walter Barbera

67. Here's a thought for everyone.......I think HKS staged the "break-in" of the house in the Bahamas so that:
(1) When they ask him for Anna's Will he can say.....it was stolen (remember...he CLAIMS to be the Executor)
(2) When they ask him for the documents stating he is the legal owner of the home he's in, he can say....gee, it was stolen, too (we all know who legally and rightfully owns that home.....and it's NOT HKS)

Get the picture? Also, what lawyer in his right mind would save/store IMPORTANT
(3) When they ask for the birth certificate, he can say.....OMG! it was stolen, too!!

You get the picture.....also....what lawyer in his right mind would store/save legal documents on the top shelf of a closet???? He stole everything else, too....the pics and everything....to use later when he needs to make more money (off Anna).

Feedback?????

Posted at 12:29PM on Feb 14th 2007 by TK

68. Howard K Stern is as fake as a 3 dollar bill... His interviews with Entertainment Tonight made me want to vomit. Something about that guy really gives me the creeps. I hope that baby ends up with someone else soon. She is such a victim in all this..

Posted at 12:29PM on Feb 14th 2007 by military spouse

69. ANNA'S MOTHER RAISED DANNY! HE TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT KID UNTIL HKS CAME INTO THE PICTURE! ANNA CALLED HER MOTHER TO GREIVE AFTER HIS DEATH - SHE OBVIOUSLY STILL LOVED HER MOTHER AND KEW HER MOTHER LOVED HER GRANDCHILD. AND WHEN THE AUDIOTAPES (SEVERAL) COME OUT WITH ANNA SPEAKING TO HER MOTHER AND HOWARD SHOUTING / SLAMMING THINGS AROUND INCLUDING THE PHONE DOWN - WE'LL THEN SEE THE TRUE SIDE OF THIS MAN. I REALLY WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP PAYING THIS MAN AND HIS FAMILY (SISTER ETC) $$$ FOR INTERVIEWS RIGHT AFTER ANNA'S DEATH - WHERE'S THE MOURNING ???? CAN YOU BE ANY MORE OBVIOUS WHEN YOU TAKE A MILLION DOLLARS RIGHT AFTER YOUR LOVED ONES DEATH! HE'S BEEN HOLDING ONTO HER PREGNENCY PHOTOS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS (HUMMM WONDER WHY SO LONG) THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN OFFERED 1/2 A MILLION FOR! BET HE KNEW THE'D BE WORTH MORE IN THE NEAR FURURE! HE HAS A BAHAMIAN ATTORNEY - THIS IS GOOD ! THINKS HE'LL BARICADE HIMSELF, TRY AND TAKE THE HOUSE, STASH AND SPEND ANNA'S MONEY AND RIDE OUT THE DNA TEST AS LONG AS HE CAN. PEOPLE WILL ALSO TESTIFY TO HIM GIVING DANIEL THE METH IN THE HOSP. ! WHILE ANNA WAS GROGGY FROM HER MEDS, SHE HAD TO SEE SOMETHING AS SEVERAL PEOPLE WI;LL TESTIFY HEARING HER SCREAM TO HOWARD - "YOU DID THIS" AND YES, ANNA'S MOTHER WARNED HER AFTER DANIELS DEATH TO" BE CARFUL, YOU MIGHT BE NEXT" REFERING TO THIS MURDERING BASTARD - MURDERING ATTORNEY (NEVER TRIED A CASE IN HIS LIFE) WHO HAD THIS VULNERABLE FAMILY OVER SO MANY YEARS UNDER HIS CONTROL! GRANDMA NEEDS TO TAKE HER GRANDCHILD AND HOWARD NEEDS TO HANG !

Posted at 2:28PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Sharon

70. ok so on ET tonight we'll see what Anna thought about her mother.....no respect for death. And her sister is publishing a book. All of them just want one thing: money.
May she be burried in Bahamas...and may the Lord keep this woman--Arthur, away...she is devil ! In this case blood doen't count !
SORRY, YOU PEOPLE ARE LIKE PARANOIAC ! I really feel for Howard. And if Larry really loved Anna, since the beginning he would have just ask ed for visitation rights, not for legal and physical custody. But he did everything his lawyer asked him to do...hold himself out as the father by buying gifts for christmas......What a pity. The only thing which stroke me is that the baby and Lary have the same mark on their face, close to their nose....I do feel for Howard.

Mau the lord strenghen Howard in this battle.

Posted at 12:45PM on Feb 14th 2007 by michelle

71. Anna's mom raised Daniel the first 6 years of his life. If she was so bad/abusive why did Anna leave her "beloved" son Daniel with her while she stripping for 7 + years?
Virgie has retired after 28 years as a sheriff's deputy so she must be somewhat stable to keep a job for so long.
The reason for the dispute between Anna & her mother? HOWARD K. $TERN! Audio tapes will confirm that I hear VERY soon!
It appears anyone who cared about ANS was basically "ran off" by this bastard.
Play her w/ drugs so she is easier to deal with.
Geez, how could he control her & manipulate her of she had people around?
Anna had relationships w/ her family/friends until HK$ on the scene.
All of these people were distanced from ANS so that HK$ could finally get her to fall in love w/ his creepy ass. Who were the only ones "allowed" around ANS?
HK$ (aka Howard K. Stern, Howard Killed the Smiths) - PSYCHO
The weird TrimSpa couple - gonna have them around to make some moolah
Shane Gibson - Immigration dude - gotta get that permanent residency - I find it kinda weird that he attended her baby shower, was on her bed hugging her, etc.
Bonnie $tern - HK$'s sister now popping up - Gee Whiz! Who would benefit from Howard getting rich? Hell, I never even knew he had a family until ANS died. I guess I just thought slugs were found under rocks & didn't have parents.
Now we are told by dear ole sis that her & her parents have been w/ little DannieLynn since ANS died. According to her THAT was the FIRST time any of them had even saw the baby! IF it was HK$'s baby hadn't they already went to see their niece & grandbaby...supposedly HK$'s first child? Obviously money wasn't an issue since HK$'s parents paid his bills!Yeah, right!!! IF Howard K. "Killer" $tern even THOUGHT he was the real daddy he would have ran all the way to the courthouse & swabbed his own damn mouth. He was OBSESSED w/ getting her money!
BTW Dear ole sis...IF Howard NEVER gave AN$ any drugs then WTF was his name on the prescription drugs?????

Posted at 2:25PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Brenda Kline

72. First of all after weighing all the pros and cons of this situation, I strongly feel that she was "controlled" by Mr Stern from the git go. He never wanted anyone close to her, family, friends ect. because it was not to his advantage.
Money makes people do weird things and sometimes bad things that they would never even think of unless they were desperate for it. Did Mr Stern have a gambling or drug problem that is yet to come out? Clearly Anna has been in trouble for years and to me evidentally the walls came tumbling down for Mr. Stern with this baby now to content with. If he thought it was his or could be legally then get the son out of the way and he would be clear to secure the Fortune that Anna was waiting to receive. Now who do you think would manage that for her? Pretty Boy of course. AND if he was so concerned and loved her so then why as sick as she was was he out using her money to buy this boat instead of being by her side? He is a SICK individual who if nothing elsed used his position with her to get exactly what he wanted. I fully believe with all of my heat that he druged her and kept her that way for his own benefit. Wonder who he was in it with. Daniels death he is responsible for too and someone needs to look into it. I am worried about the safety of Larry Birkhead and Annas mother. Mr. Stern it seems will stop at nothing to have his way. He may not have shot them with a gun but murder comes in all forms. He is responsible and he must face the concequences. THe baby is the one who needs to be out of his grasp and into a safe and secure enviroment. He may "Luv" her like he loved Anna and her son. Look where that got them>>>>> I hope the officals take this matter and do something before its too late AGAIN>..

Posted at 3:48PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Diva

73. I just hope if her mother gets custody, she feeds her a decent diet. Have you seen her size and the rest of the family? Can we say corn fed?

Posted at 1:16AM on Feb 15th 2007 by free fall

74. YOU SILLY PEOPLE WHO SAY BRAD AND ANGELINA SHOULD GET THE BABY, HOW STUPID. THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN, AND ARE PLANNING ON HAVING MORE.
WHEN ANS WAS PREGNANT SHE TOOK DRUGS THE WHOLE 9 MONTHS. I JUST PRAY THE BABY WILL BE NORMAL. THEY NEED TO GET THE BABY AWAY FROM OLD HOWARD BEFORE HE KILLS HER TOO.

Posted at 12:44PM on Feb 14th 2007 by JENNIFER

75. THIS IS TO YOU LARRY BIRKHEAD

Youre an a**hole .... YOU DONT NEED THE BODY FOR DNA... The ME when doing an autopsy gets all the dna you can possibly want... Let that woman be at peace next to her son... HKS you to are an ass too. Let this woman be.. She's rotting in a morgue while you a**holes decide who should keep the money.. Money is not going to buy you happiness A-holes

Posted at 12:39PM on Feb 14th 2007 by JAF

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