Celebrity Justice
Judge Orders More DNA Testing on Anna Nicole

Anna Nicole Smith blows kissA Florida judge demanded today that even more DNA samples be taken from the body of Anna Nicole Smith, amidst concerns of a baby switching plot.

Lawyers for Larry Birkhead, one of the men claiming to be the father of Anna's 5-month old daughter Dannielynn, believes that Smith's DNA is needed to directly connect the Playboy model with Dannielynn so no one could switch the child with another baby.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin has warned all three parties vying for control of the body, Howard K. Stern, Anna's estranged mother Virgie Arthur, and Larry Birkhead, that his decision will take a while as to whom the body will be released. "We're going to have hearings -- as many hearings as we need," Seidlin said yesterday. "This is just a warm-up."

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31. Maybe her mom wants to bury her in TX so she can own the space and make a buck off her gravesite?

Posted at 8:51AM on Feb 16th 2007 by T

32. The fl judge is a freak, Where else would she be buried but beside her son? This is the sickest sh*t ive ever seen, flagrant abuse of power.

Posted at 2:52PM on Feb 15th 2007 by the judge is a freak & so is virgie

33. Good Words Jamie Peters, I defenitly cosign that....this is all too creepy and unorganized and sick and just disrepectful....

Did anyone really care for this woman?

Posted at 2:54PM on Feb 15th 2007 by lynn

34. to jenny and the rest of you ana has done the same thing thats happening to her now that she did to her "first husband" she put on a whole show saying she loved him and blah blah blah what goes around truly comes back around

P.S that still does not make it right and it is ashame also for all of u talking about her and her mother like u know the whole story is amazing Ana stated herself on her reality show the reason she hated her mother was b/c she tried to keep her son when she was raising him.

Posted at 2:54PM on Feb 15th 2007 by iivy

35. If TMZ wants to do some badly needed investigative journalism, then it should start trying to get some answers about that Medical Examiner's head.

WTF is up with that? You literally can't take your eyes off it. But I can't figure out if it's a growth on one side or a dent on the other. Is one side too high, or the other side too low?

Posted at 5:01PM on Feb 15th 2007 by cheri

36. Let them get what they want from her body. She doesn't care now. Get this over with so she can rest in peace. Put her next to her son EVERYONE can agree that is where she would want to be.
Dannielynn is what is important here . You can have a DNA test done now. Why the hell doesn't some one step up for this baby. Why leave her future in limbo? BECAUSE NO ONE NOT ONE OF THESE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THAT CHILD. If they did this would all be over with by now.
If I was the courts the first person that stepped up and would say just give me the baby I don't want the money put it in trust for her All I want is to give her a loving home . They would get Dannielynnn BUT NO ONE HAS SAID THAT.... AND THEY NEVER WILL
I am heartbroken for this child.... And I don't even know her. So many people like me care more about Dannielynn then her own family that is just so sad.

Posted at 4:44PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Cyndy

37. I just saw some of the live proceedings from this hearing-such an air of solemnity and respect prevailed ! NOT! Jokes were flying about-an aura of elite mockery.The judge was so obviously enjoying the attention-made me sick. It was like the Roman soldiers casting lots over Christ's robes. How did they ever select this judge? Is he Judge Judy's cousin? It looks like another Judge Ito in the works... at least he had the good sense to listen to the advice of the coroner-wish they would just cremate the poor woman and let it go.

Posted at 8:44PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Ramona

38. What im wondering is how can a Florida judge appoint a guardian ad litem for a child that is a Bahamian resident? It is apparent that this judge is looking for some publicity, and I have a feeling that before this is over Virgie the whale will wish she had left it alone.

Posted at 3:04PM on Feb 15th 2007 by 20/20

39. This is a travesty all around. Virgie Arthur isn't worth the oxygen she takes up onj this earth and if I were to ever see her I would not hesitate at all to spit directly in her face. The saddest thing of all is that anna nicole fought all her life against the fear of being alone, it seemed that to her, that was a fate worse than death. And now she is lying all alone in a morgue refridgerator while ppl who never really gave a damn about her fight over her corpse.

Posted at 5:49PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Jenna

40. Give the drug whore's bloated corpse to HK$. He can continue to prey on her by selling more pictues. Unfortunately, she is going to look more like reality show Anna than TrimSpa Anna each day that goes by.

Bury her sorry old plastic corpse outside of the US.

Posted at 3:04PM on Feb 15th 2007 by ellen

41. Huh.... didn't know there were TWO Judge Ito's. Just how many people can you GET on a band wagon anyway???

Posted at 3:05PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Delyga

42. #10 YOU MAKE TOTAL SENSE!!!

# 6 your an idiot, you and Howard should be together...Two Dumb Fucks! Do you HONESTLY believe Howard CARED for Anna, Daniel or poor Daniellyne?? Don't you find it at all COINCIDENTAL that Daniel dies and soon later Anna dies, and oops, Howard is the Executor to the will...hmmmmm GROW UP TWIT!

Posted at 4:58PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Jules

43. well all I can say is stern must have something to hide in my opinion if he is the real father he should go head and take the paternity test I believe the reason he doesn't is because number-one he's not the real father and number two there probably going to find a lot of drugs in his system. And I do hope they investigate stern because I think it's awful strange how to different people happen to die around him.

Posted at 9:12AM on Feb 23rd 2007 by j corbin

44. Enough is Enough! Anna was in misery before she died and now the circus her death is causing.......Enough already!

Posted at 3:08PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Harleymom

45. 4. Anna may have been drugged up but she was right to think everyone she had ever known (even ones she didn't know) would stab her in the back. How sad.

Posted at 2:15PM on Feb 15th 2007 by so sad

As someone who was with a drug addict TRYING to sober him up for many years I can tell you from firsthand experience, they think EVERYONE is "betraying" them and "picking on" while it is THEY who are the betrayers, even to themselves, so to your comment I must say that the person that without A DOUBT stabbed ANS in the back the most was Anna herself! They play on people's sympathies with this, "whoa is me, I'm so nice and innocent and everyone is picking on me" act for a reason ya know...it attracts people to them that are easily taken advantage of and gullible and who will believe their schtick. Save you sympathies for her children.

Posted at 3:08PM on Feb 15th 2007 by been there and done that

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