Anna to be Buried in the Bahamas

A Florida appeals court ruled today and uphold the previous decision ofJudge Larry Seidlin giving custody of the body of Anna Nicole Smith to baby Dannielynn's court-appointed advocate, Richard Milstein. This paves the way for Smith to be buried in the Bahamas next to her son, Daniel.

Justices Barry Stone, Mark Polen and George Shahood of the Fourth District Court of Appeals heard arguments on Wednesday from lawyers representing Virgie Arthur, Howard K. Stern and Dannielynn Smith. Arthur, Smith's mom, wanted the body to be buried in Texas, while the others wanted the body to be buried in the Bahamas.

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1141. Billy, Get in there for your son! Have the mags begin an investigation immediately. Find out what Anna's circle of friends were doing to him. She used Daniel and abused him for financial gain, because he was so pretty and he made her look good for photo spreads; other times he was in boarding schools. Had he been an ugly child, it would have been different!

Who diagnosed Daniel's need for psyche meds? Did he need them or was that the Mafia's way of controlling him too? God forbid, Daniel have a wife and children. The HEIR list would increase .

Many people have termed Texas as "trailer trash". Show them what TRASH really looks like, Billy! California Trash! Don't worry abour political correctness! Call them what they are and how they have to use other people's children just like they used Danny and now begun to use his sister!

The cameras have come after Anna's relatives in droves. Put investigators on Howard and Birkhead. Interrogate their "before Anna" lovelife. Interview their old girlfriends. Do it for the baby! Imagine what a gigolo money handler and a professional photographer will use this new child for the rest of her life! Don't allow another child fall into their hands!

Posted at 10:06AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by nancy moody

1142. Virgie,

Stay strong and full strength ahead! Investigate the Protection of the Mentally ill Code in California. Vicki appeared to have signs of a Dyskinesia associated with some anti-psychotic and anti-depressant meds, before her body had a chance to adjust to them, (especially her mouth movements). Find out any new prescriptions she had begun and how long prior to that interview. There should be a protection code in the law of California for use/abuse of mentally diagnosed people.

What does the law say about a mentally ill person being taken in by the attorney that is supposed to be representing her estate. Find out what other drugs were given her that would have adverse effect when mixed and NOT because someone killed her, but because someone was controlling her.

Find out why she was so physically ill, she had to have someone at her bedside in Fla. Had to be physically helped to the bathroom, physically lifted into a bathtub, waited on hand and foot and medical help was not obtained. Find out why a registered nurse did not call 911. and a paramedic could not figure out how to call 911. Don't accept "natural causes" because there is nothing natural about neglect..

Posted at 10:30AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by nancy moody

1143. Her mother is trying to stop the funeral...again as we speak...a
Narcissist...all for attention...she is making a fool of
herself...every channel..is saying it...and I agree

Posted at 10:49AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by homegirl101

1144. her mother is late for her daughter's funeral...and you want me to believe that she gives a fuk about Anna......now her body is waiting again..outside of a Funeral Home Virgie wants the attention from the media...shows up at the end...after all the hoopala..to get her own attention...
like the girl who comes late for the party...so everyone can notice her dress.......s
Virgie makes me sick

Posted at 11:00AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by homegirl101

1145. Grief or Greed...holding up the funeral..can't you have the service...and fight to put her into the ground...Verigie is not popular with CNN, MSNBC, FOX..all reporting that this is the worst thing a parent could do....holding up the funeral..it's apalling

Posted at 11:06AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by homegirl101

1146. thank god this circus is over!!!!??!!!! if vergie loved anna nicole at all, no matter what their differences, she would have stepped down two weeks ago. as hard as it would have been. poor anna has been gone for three weeks! her soul is already in heaven with daniel. it's just her shell lying in that morgue. whatever anna's reasons were for moving to the bahamas, burying daniel there (i don't think she expected to die so soon), don't matter anymore. she was a resident (no matter what), and what a beautiful place to be layed to rest. maybe it will make it more difficult for their graves to become a dumping sight for all the trash that will no doubt be flocking to the cemetary to take pictures of the headstones!
unlike all the money vergie would make selling her out. she has never denied the things anna said about her. and where's the rest of her family? brother. sister(s). father. she was her mother for the first 29 years? vergie threw anna away a long time ago.
even if hks isn't dannielynn's father, he's the only one that's fought for anna nicole through all of this. i believe he loved her, no matter how dysfuctional their relationship was.
anna, please watch over your baby girl, and help her live the life she deserves to have, being nurtured and loved, and to be kept safe, always.
rip anna nicole and daniel. and bless dannielynn.

Posted at 11:10AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by tag

1147. Well, even FOX NEWS is trashing ET's interviews with Howard & Anna! And Stern Pressures Larry TODAY to sign a deal!!

Howard K. Stern Plays Hardball With Larry Birkhead
Friday, March 02, 2007

By Roger Friedman

AP

Anna Nicole: Stern Pressures Larry to Sign Deal

Anna Nicole Smith's two baby daddies (I don't know what else to call them) continue to be in a tug-of-war this morning, even as their beloved cash cow is readied for burial.

Overnight, attorney Howard K. Stern — whose hold on the situation is starting to slip — has been strong-arming photographer Larry Birkhead to do a couple of things: keep Birkhead's legal reps out of Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Danniellynn.

Stern, as I told you the other day, has already had one secret meeting with Birkhead in which he cut out the photographer's lawyers.

I'm told that Stern has kept up the pressure on Birkhead, actually presenting him with contracts, sources say, in which Birkhead would join Stern for more exclusive interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."

"Howard wanted Larry to sign so that it looked like everyone was in agreement, and that it wasn't just Howard benefiting from these deals," my source said. "Larry said the baby's guardian should sign the papers for him and the baby, but he wouldn't. So then Larry wouldn't."

At the same time, Stern is trying to negotiate separately with Birkhead, away from his attorneys, to sign a deal by which Stern would continue to be in baby Danniellyn's life and oversee her finances.

Stern, my sources say, is working as quickly as he can to effect these agreements before he has to turn over the baby to Birkhead, her biological father.

Sources say that Birkhead's representatives are considering taking legal action against Stern's side to prevent further communication between the two sides as soon as today.

The problem, sources also say, is that Birkhead — a novice in these games — continues to be intimidated by Stern.

"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," both owned by CBS Paramount Television, have denied paying for interviews. But I'm told their method – it's semantics — is to "license" footage either directly from Stern or through a third party.

Recently, "ET" used Solana Productions of Southern California in such a deal. Neither Solana or anyone from CBS Paramount answered calls yesterday.

Anna Nicole: Dead, and For Sale

Today, Anna Nicole Smith — a ridiculous person who accomplished just about nothing in her life — will be buried in the Bahamas.

There are several wars taking place all over the world, not to mention famines; artists are hard at work, movies are opening, buildings are going up, diseases are being investigated. But hey: Anna Nicole is being buried, and "Entertainment Tonight" will be there for every cheesy second of it.

That's because "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," two half-hour shows syndicated by CBS's Paramount TV, have paid a high price for this honor.

Real insiders (not the kind you have to pay for info) tell me that Paramount TV cut the deal with Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole's lawyer and Svengali, right after her son Daniel died of a methadone overdose in her Bahamian hospital room last September.

Paramount TV has denied this, somewhat passively, so far. But my sources say it they paid Stern around $3 million initially, and that this was renegotiated right after Anna Nicole herself died on February 8th of this year.

Of course, we could believe that Stern — who in court told clueless Florida probate judge Larry Seidlin that he was living off his parents — just loves "ET." Anything's possible.

But the reality is that Anna Nicole's death has proven to be a ratings-sweep godsend.

Linda Bell Blue, the show's executive producer, previously helmed Paramount's ugly tabloid show, "Hard Copy." For years she's had to sit through Mary Hart's tedious, publicist-arranged interviews with low-level TV stars, just waiting for this moment: a huge celebrity death, in a sweeps month, and already contracted for!

As recently as last night, "ET" correspondent Mark Steines was reporting "from inside" Anna Nicole's Bahamas mansion — no mention of the fact that it didn't belong to her, and that the landlord is kicking everyone out.

Steines had "the inside scoop" about the B-list country singer who would serenade Anna Nicole into the next life, the color of her burial gown ("pink!") and what would be inside the coffin (with any luck, Anna Nicole).

Steines performs these interviews — as he has since last Nov. 1, when he had his first "exclusive" after Smith's son, Daniel, died — with a reasonably straight face.

He either knows he's skating on very thin ice and doesn't care, or doesn't get it and is happy to accept the money. In either case, he loses.

As far back as last November, the show's viewers were writing into "ET" forums on the Web asking how much the show had paid for the interviews, and begging them to stop.

On the topix.net forum for the show, a woman named Lana from Andrews, Texas, wrote on Nov. 6: "ET needs to rename their show The Anna Nichole (sic) Show. Every night it is about her. I wonder if there are any viewers that care to hear about her."

On Nov. 6, Dianne from Madison, Wis., wrote: "I think they might have finally driven me away from the show with all this Anna Nicole crap. How much is she paying them?"

The viewers were smarter than the show thought. That didn't stop Blue, Steines and friends.

Nancy from Richardson, Texas, posted this before Smith died on Feb. 8: "Get over her ... I am tired of all of the interviews they are doing with her. She sounds like she is either drunk or high. I have no respect for her and am getting tired of seeing her and all the interviews. She can't even talk without sounding like she is a drunken slut!"

Patti Horton from Altoona, Pa., posted this on Feb. 9: "I can't believe someone from E[T] hasn't questioned Anna Nicole about her drug use. Every night that she is being interviewed it is quite obvious that she is somewhere in la la land. I think they should of (sic) been more persistent in following that path than her new house. Some of the interviews it was all she coud (sic) do to talk. Was this a safe environment for this baby???"

Steines, of course, has a blog on the "ET" Web site. It's a hoot.

On Feb. 9, the day after Smith died, he posted: "When the news broke of Anna's death ... I immediately boarded a plane to Florida along with Khristine Eroshevich, Anna's close confidant…"

Steines acts like Eroshevich is just a pal, maybe another Playboy model. In fact, she was the model's psychiatrist, and someone who has yet to be heard from.

Eroshevich's few comments — including that she oversaw an ice bath for a dying Smith — have been limited to ... Steines, who despite his "inside" sources has not been able to secure Eroshevich for a real interview about these people and their drug use.

I doubt that will happen until Stern's usefulness has passed and his agreements with "ET" have expired.

Steines must feel a long way away from the two Emmys he received years ago in local news at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.

Posted at 12:33PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Briggs

1148. The whole bunch is a crop of loosers - God help that baby, that is if it's in God's help to protect her from such rejects of society. That means the judges, ANS, HKS and the rest of the people that are a waste of flesh that would even give custody of the remains to a child and disobey all the laws within the FLA system. If I ever meet up with HKS I would spit in his fact and ANS had to room to talk about her mother the way she did, she had sources available on the abuse and he showed no better parenting than her mother.
Absolute crock! This country has gone to hell in a handbasket - damn liberals!

Posted at 12:39PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by ksbabyboomer

1149. It's the principle of the thing, Billy!

Don't worry about the cable show opinions! Many of those opininated mouth pieces rode OJ Simpson to fame!

You are better than Stern, Birkhead and Co.. You don't need a fake tan, silk ties and hairspray. They're sissies! They allow other men to crawl in their bed. Expose them!

Vicki used Mr. Marshall's money to alienate Daniel from you. Now, you can use Mr. Marshall's money to help rescue this baby and bring your son home. The money is there and drawing interest! Ask the Marshall's to help you. Mr. Marshall should not be buried half in the Bahamas and half in Texas! He was an American citizen as was Daniel.

Ignore the criticism: You and Vergie did not tolerate Vicki's behaviour so you are labeled DESERTERS and those who tolerated her are labeled ENABLERS. Ignore the psycho-babble, put the blame on Vicki and bring Daniel home!

Posted at 1:03PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by nancy moody

1150. watch her on et anna herself said she was raped

Posted at 1:08PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by cathy

1151. watch her on et anna herself said she was raped

Posted at 1:08PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by cathy

1152. I have been saying all along........Anna would not have bought a plot next to her son if she didn't want to be buried there. Her mother has not had a relationship with her daughter for a long time. I think EVERYONE just wants to be in the limelight! What difference does it make where she is buried. Her body is just a shell now. Her spirit is what matters! Just get her in the ground before she falls apart! Let her REST IN PEACE~~~~~next to her son~~~~

Posted at 1:20PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Becka

1153. I feel really bad for Anna's mother. She raised Anna's son Daniel for several years while Anna was off living her life. If she was such a horrible parent why did Anna leave her beloved Daniel with her for those years? Why did Anna call her mother when Daniel died? Her mother didn't tell her what she wanted to hear when Daniel died, she told her the truth that she had exposed Daniel to an unhealthy environment and too many drugs. it was Sterns chance to move in and destroy their relationship just as he's managed to do with all of her friends. Why do you think he paraded her on ET with that story about hating her Mom, and anyone with any sense could tell how messed up she was during that interview. I feel bad for Anna too but lets face it, she was no perfect mother, and probably wasn't the model child either. I agree Anna would want to be buried beside of her son, however her son, had no control over where he was buried and as it appears Anna didn't either. She was drugged and manipulated. The right thing to do would be to bring Daniel home and bury them both in California. Bodies are moved everyday and it's not the end of the world to move one. It really makes me ill everytime I see Stern and the supposedly body gaurd on ET. They sure are cashing in at Anna's expense and dignity and her family's grief, and he's negotiating with the baby. Someone please do something about this man.

Posted at 3:24PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Tanya

1154. There is a LOVELY cartoon to summarize all the court Case and who was happy and who was sad :>

http://aruljohn.com

Posted at 4:33PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by kris morgan

1155. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN RIP ANNA NICOLE GO BE WITH YOUR SON AND I HOPE HOWARD DONT GET A DAMN PENNY CAUSE I THINK HE IS A GOLD DIGGER AND I HOPE THE BABY GETS TO BE WITH HER REAL DAD WHO EVER THAT MAY BE AND THAT NO ONE CAN HAVE THE MONEY BUT HER IF SHE GETS ANY UNTIL SHE TURNS 18 BUT THEN NO ONE MIGHT NOT WANT HER DAMN THIS STORY IS SO SAD!!!!!!

Posted at 4:49PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by LAURIE

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