The Seminoles will not comment on their investigation, although they initially said there was no indication that Anna Nicole was the victim of crime.

The star arrived at the Hard Rock on February 5 and planned to leave four days later aboard a new yacht, her companion, Howard Stern, was arranging to buy. She was said to be suffering from stomach flu before she was found dead on February 8.

DNA test for Anna Nicole’s daughter - Mar 21 2007
A judge has ordered for a DNA test to be carried out on Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter to identify her father, a lawyer for Smith’s mother said.

Larry Birkhead, an ex-boyfriend of the Playboy playmate who asked the judge to order the test on six-month-old Dannielynn, pumped his fists in the air and jumped up and down as he emerged from the closed hearing.

"I feel great," he said. "It’s been a good day in court for me."

Deborah Rose, a lawyer for Smith’s mother Virgie Arthur, confirmed the judge ordered the test but she and others who attended the hearing declined to describe the proceedings.

Tears as Anna Nicole laid to rest - Mar 3 2007
Tragic Anna Nicole Smith has finally been laid to rest alongside her son Daniel in the Bahamas.

The voluptuous blonde, whose sudden death three weeks ago aged 39 echoed that of her lifelong idol Marilyn Monroe, went to her grave wearing a pink beaded gown and tiara. She was apparently clutching an urn containing her dead oil tycoon husband’s ashes.

But a high-drama soap opera atmosphere followed her in death as in life and her funeral only took place after a judge denied her mother Virgie Arthur’s 11th hour request to take Smith’s body to Texas, Island FM radio reported.

Arthur was booed by the crowd outside as she arrived late for the former Playboy model’s typically flamboyant send-off dominated by her favourite colour.

Nassau’s Mount Horeb Church was festooned with pink peonies, roses, stargazers and white calla lilies. Smith’s mahogany casket was covered with a rhinestone-studded pink blanket trimmed with flowing marabou tassels and ribbons.

The hundred or so mourners, many of whom wore black and pink ribbons, included Guns N’ Roses rocker Slash and Alex Goen, the chief executive of diet company TrimSpa, which Smith endorsed. Country singer Joe Nichols sang I’ll Wait For You and Dolly Parton’s On the Wings of a Dove, said to have been Smith’s favourite country song.

Her close friends Patrik Simpson and Pol Atteu, who designed her handcrafted dress, were also present, but the star’s five-month-old daughter Dannielynn stayed at home.

Around 30 friends and family members attended the intimate graveside service that followed. Each reportedly laid a pink and a red rose on the coffin to symbolise Smith and 20-year-old Daniel, who died in September just three days after Dannielynn was born.

They had also been asked to write a personal note to the star on pink heart-shaped paper and drop it into the grave.

Smith’s partner Howard Stern and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who are embroiled in a legal battle over who fathered her daughter, apparently shook hands and both wept before the funeral started. Birkhead sat behind Stern in the second row. A picture of Smith was looking her most glamorous was displayed next to the coffin.

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