Stern’s lawyers filed their response. "This case presents the tragic circumstances of Anna Nicole Smith’s untimely death and the sad irony of her estranged birth mother’s efforts to place her in death where she never wanted to be in life," they wrote to the three-judge appellate panel.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin last week gave the custody of Smith’s body to the advocate for Smith’s baby daughter and urged him to have Smith laid to rest next to her son, who died last autumn and is buried in the Bahamas.

In the midst of the court frenzy, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern is living in the Bahamas, where Smith lived with Stern until her death on February 8 at the age of 39.

A judge in the Bahamas, where custody of the little girl is in dispute, scheduled a March hearing in that case.

Stern and two other men claim they are Dannielynn’s father, and Arthur also wants custody. A lawyer for Los Angeles-based photographer Larry Birkhead indicated after that DNA tests were expected, but she would not elaborate.

Anna Nicole to be buried in Bahamas - Feb 23 2007
Tragic former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith will be laid to rest in the Bahamas next to her son, it was announced last night.

The decision came after a ruling in the court battle over the blonde’s body that denied custody to both her partner Howard Stern and her estranged mother Virgie Arthur.

Instead, a weeping Judge Larry Seidlin handed responsibility to the lawyer appointed as the guardian of the late star’s five-month-old daughter Dannielynn - but said he hoped she would be buried in Nassau.

He had been urged to come to a speedy decision in the case amid fears that the starlet’s body was decomposing so quickly that it might soon be unfit for viewing.

The cause of the 39-year-old’s death in a Florida hotel room two weeks ago remains a mystery.

Outside court, Stern stood side-by-side with Anna Nicole’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, his rival in a separate legal fight over who fathered Dannielynn.

Richard Milstein, the lawyer representing the baby’s interests, said the model’s final resting place should be in the Bahamas.

"Our intention is that the burial will take place next to her son Daniel," he said.

The 20-year-old died in September as he visited his mother in the hospital where she had given birth to her daughter just three days earlier.

Judge ’to rule in days on Anna Nicole remains’ - Feb 22 2007
A judge has promised to rule by Friday on who should get custody of former Playboy Anna Nicole Smith’s body, amid fears that her corpse was decomposing so fast an open casket funeral would not be possible.

Anna Nicole’s estranged mother, who is battling the star’s companion Howard Stern over the remains, now also wants to exhume her grandson Daniel from the Bahamas and rebury his body in Texas together with his mother’s.

For the second day the medical examiner called the courtroom in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where bizarre scenes have been playing out, to warn that Anna Nicole’s body was deteriorating faster than expected.

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