Anna Nicole Smith
- Profession: Model
- Place/Date of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA, 28 November 2020
- Date of Death: 08 February 2021
Earlier this week a court in the
A custody hearing between Birkhead and Arthur has been postponed until next week.
Birkhead: No need for court battle - April 12 2007
Larry Birkhead - the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter - has said there’s no need to share legal custody of the child now DNA tests have proved he’s the dad.
A judge in the
Anna Nicole’s partner Howard Stern, who has been caring for the baby since the starlet’s death in February, said yesterday he wouldn’t fight for custody.
However, a lawyer for the former Playboy Playmate’s mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might.
Larry today said he didn’t want another legal fight and revealed he has no intention of sharing custody.
He and some relatives visited Dannielynn at the home Stern shared with Anna Nicole several hours after the DNA test results were announced yesterday, Entertainment Tonight reported.
He changed his daughter’s nappy for the first time and fed her apple sauce with some coaching from Stern, the programme reported.
Who will get custody of Anna’s baby? - April 11 2007
The custody dispute over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby enters its next round in the
Howard Stern, who has been caring for baby Dannielynn since Anna’s sudden death in February, said he wouldn’t fight for custody, but a lawyer for the tragic former model’s mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might.
Stern said he loved the baby despite the DNA results and would support Birkhead.
"I’m obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed," he said, adding of Birkhead: "I’m going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody."
Larry, who broke up with Anna before she moved to the
"I told you so!" Birkhead said, announcing the DNA test results upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: "My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon."
The court’s DNA expert, Dr Michael Baird, confirmed it.
Just seven months old, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern stands to inherit a fortune if the legal battles her mother left her ever get resolved.
The baby could potentially inherit millions from the estate of Anna’s late husband, Howard Marshall.
’Birkhead is father of Anna’s baby’ - April 11 2007
DNA analysis has proved that Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead is the father of her baby daughter, an expert in genetic evidence has said.
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Although she had aspirations to become ’the next Marilyn Monroe’, Vickie began working at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken where she met her first husband, Billy Wayne Smith. They married when Vickie was just seventeen. The next year she gave birth to their son Daniel and in 1987 seperated from her husband, finding work as an exotic dancer in Houston.
Whilst working as a stripper she met elderly millionaire J. Howard Marshall, with whom she began a relationship despite the sixty three year age gap. In 1994 the couple married amid much tabloid excitement. Marshall died thirteen months later, leaving nothing to his young wife.
In the interim Vickie, now going by the name Anna Nicole Smith, appeared on the front cover of Playboy, being made Playmate of the Year by Hugh Hefner. She bagged a deal with Guess?, replacing supermodel Claudia Schiffer and finding herself a household name. Meanwhile Anna Nicole battled Marshall’s sons in the courts for her share of her late husbands millions, however she was eventually bankrupted and ordered to pay $1million dollars in fees. She was again given the right to fight for her entitlement following the death of her stepson.
Anna Nicole’s acting career was much less publicised than her marriage, although she appeared in high profile films The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3. Her bigger roles came in smaller films such as To The Limit and Skyscraper and on television, appearing as herself in wacky reality TV series The Anna Nicole Show. She later apeared in Be Cool and Wasabi Tuna.
On September 7 2006 Anna Nicole gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, claiming the father was her lawyer Howard K Stern, although her ex boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, claimed the child as his. Three days later her son, Daniel, died of an apparent drug overdose while visiting his mother and half sister in hospital. Later that same month Anna Nicole and Howard K Stern exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas.
On February 8 2007, the day after a date for a paternity test on her daughter had been set, Anna Nicole collapsed at a hotel in Florida and later died. An autopsy has yet to determine the cause of death.
updated February 2007
October 2007