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Battle for the Body: Stern, Birkhead Arrive In Court

Larry Birkhead & Howard K. SternHoward K. Stern and Larry Birkhead, the two men who claim to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, are in the Florida courtroom of Judge Larry K. Seidlin right now to determine what will happen to Smith's body.

At 9:37 AM, Howard K. Stern entered the courtroom and took a seat just a few feet away from Larry Birkhead. Smith's mother Virgie Arthur is in the courtroom as well, and warmly embraced Birkhead before the beginning of the hearing. Anna Nicole's father Don Hogan also made a surprise appearance in court.

Judge Seidlin addressed Stern and Birkhead and said, "I expected both of you to show."

To watch the hearing unfold live, click here to watch a live feed from Miami affiliate WTVJ.

Update 1:00 p.m. ET: Court has recessed for lunch. The hearing will reconvene at 2:30 p.m. ET.

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46. BRING DANIEL HOME!!!

Virgie Arthur can address all the concerns about Anna Nicole being buried with her son, Daniel. Bring Daniel home to be buried next to Anna in Texas.

There is no reason whatsoever for Daniel to be buried in the Bahamas now that his mother is deceased.

Posted at 12:03PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Patty O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

47. 4. #1, I agree with you. Regardless of how we may feel about how Anna Nicole lived her life or who we may think the father is or isn't or should be. EVERY WOMAN who is a MOTHER would want to be NEAR HER BELOVED CHILD. She's a mom and we ALL know she loved her boy dearly. She needs to be with her son.

Posted at 9:58AM on Feb 20th 2007 by Fergie
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Grow up, they both are DEAD, GONE, you make it sound like if bodies are buried together they can have tea parties.

What is left of their bodies the bugs will take care of even that so quit treating this like they were alive.
This has nothing to do with her body that they chopped off the top of her head and yanked her brains out, gutted her and is nothing but a blob or rotting body.

She had her son rot for like 40 days before it was buried, she demanded half the ashes from the sugar daddy and then never waited 5 years ! to even go get that so screw her the slut, she belongs in a garbage can for this is all about her life MONEY, cheating and blackmail so quit with they need to be buried next to each other for the son's body still can be brought back to the USA and then what fight again where her body should be.

Posted at 12:30PM on Feb 20th 2007 by JR

48. That evil bastard Stern hasn't even got the guts to look up while he is being questioned! I don't believe ONE thing he says about what ANNA wanted, or ANYTHING ELSE! He is a lying bag of shit, we only have HIS word for what Anna wanted, and you can see from everything else what a liar he is. Also, that judge is the biggest joke of all. What the hell is his problem? Now he's bitching that he's hungry and wants to go to lunch? Jesus, get this idiot off the case NOW!

Posted at 12:36PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Howard is a murderer

49. i think this proves it
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4427358201227890862

Posted at 12:47PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Howard

50. why isn't the video talked about in court? It should be shown in private to the judge, but maybe he's seen it. Hugh Hefner bought the crypt next to Monroe for Anna. So the burial plot shopping are all bull.

Posted at 1:02PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Granny

51. Why do you people assume that if Virgie buries Anna in Texas that she would not have Daniel buried there as well. The Bahamas is the place he died, and HKS knew that he and Anna had the governement officials in their back pockets there, so this is where they resided at the time and also where Daniel's death wouldn't fully be srutinized. Virgie loved her grandson and would most assuredly have Daniels body brought to Texas and buried alongside his mother.

And to the posters who keep stating that Anna hated her mother, she didn't start this hate until HKS came into the picture... They may have had their differences but Virgie is still her mother.

Posted at 1:39PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Celebrity Status...Unknown

52. This is so sad, this woman was beyond helping herself for quite some time, and the people around her stood there and watched her descend into madness and death.
The bottom line is that when you love a person, you do everything possible to save them. But everyone was afraid in her inner circle, the fear was that they would be cut off and out from her money. People have a better opportunity to take from someone who is in this condition.

ANS was a sad and pathic figure, but she was not loved by HKS. She traded in sex and fame to get what she wanted and this is what happens. She made her choices, choose her inner circle of friends, and in the end paid the ultimate price for herself, and her son . Hopefully someone will win the daughter and raise her in a different world than the one her mother lived in.

Posted at 1:58PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Candy

53. It's pretty obvious a normal common-sensed American. Anna Nicole and Howard K. Stern were in a common-law type of marriage. I think that Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell didn't even have a commitment type ceremony. That should say a lot that Anna & Howard were serious enough to have a commitment ceremony and that a wedding was in their immediate future. Larry is nothing more than a sperm donor. Obviously Anna never wanted him to be a daddy to her baby. It sounds like Howard K. Stern needed to attend some AA type of sessions to accept the problems of his girlfriend. Instead, there were always pictures of him behind her or at times looked like he was trying to reason with her. You cannot fault someone who does not know what to do to control someone else with an addiction problem. As for Anna's biological mother, Anna doesn't want to have anything to do with her - she needs to get out of this circus and come to terms with what she did to turn her daughter away. As a mother, you do not ever publicly humiliate your child!! The estrangement is noone else's fault but Anna and her mom.

Posted at 2:30PM on Feb 20th 2007 by Tootz

54. Larry Birkhead is nothing more than a cock roach, and his lawyer needs a total makeover, that old bag is so ugly she's scary, yeah I'm talking about you Debra Opri, dam your ugly as hell, and not the brightest pea in the pod.

Posted at 12:03AM on Feb 21st 2007 by Sonya

55. The fact of the matter is, it doesnt matter WHERE Anna is buried, or if Daniel is buried with her, if you are considering Dannielynn getting to "visit" her mother and brother. These are people she practically never met and she wont remember. Part of me thinks that if HKS get to bury her in the Bahamas (which I am sure that goverment would LOVE, because of all the morbid gawking "tourists" which would flood there) he will make some huge gawdy spectacle, for money. Some kind of memorial, maybe a museum or something, displaying a deathmask or something. But part of me thinks Virgie will do the same thing, maybe not right away, but eventually. I dont think either of these people is fit to be trusted with her remains.

Posted at 12:22AM on Feb 21st 2007 by diva

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