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death is so tragic, and yet, so beautiful.
death is so tragic, and yet, so beautiful.
I'll stay seated and salute.
If not, a hairdryer and some vaseline will do the trick.
Dying young sucks ass.
The M.E. is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
He also had an odd shaped head.
What this story needs is some . . . Zsa Zsa!
Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband: I could be Smith baby's father
POSTED: 4:58 p.m. EST, February 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father.
The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father.
"If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead.
Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years.
Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2002.
Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
"She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he said. "She wanted to be a princess."
He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife.
But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/09/pr....ap/index.html
She's still dead, right?
for all we know I could by smiths babys father
But Zsa Zsa is alive. Ironic, no?
are you kidding? hey, grrreeeat comparison. you must be a nascar fan
where did it state in anna nicoles job description that she had to poison her body endlessly with weight-loss and pain pills? people who see my comments as classless are just as dumb as anna nicole was
It's like a frigging episode of Lost with all the plot twists...
The New York Daily News has reported that a manuscript it obtained says Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.
Annnnnd.....add this to the mix. Anna wasn't faithful to Trim Spa, baby!
http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/11/annas-...and-slim-fast/
Okay, the movie has got to be coming: who will be the cast?
Courtney Love?
How did we go three days without an update?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/15/sm...ing/index.html
In court: Who will bury Anna Nicole Smith?
POSTED: 4:51 p.m. EST, February 15, 2007
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried in the Bahamas, next to her son, and bought a burial plot there, according to attorneys for her longtime companion, Howard K. Stern.
Smith's estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, wants to take the body home to Texas to be buried with family members.
The two sides faced off in Broward County Circuit Court on Thursday at a probate hearing that bounced from custody of the body to DNA sampling to whether a baby can be considered next of kin under Florida law.
With several attorneys arguing loudly around a conference table, Judge Larry Seidlin tried to sort through a tangle of legal arguments and competing interests.
Sitting around the table or on the phone were lawyers representing Smith, Stern, and Smith's former lover Larry Birkhead. Also at the table were Smith's mother and her attorneys.
The lawyers sniped at the opposing parties, and at each other.
"The woman sitting across from me was estranged from her daughter. I have people who loved her," sniffed Krista Barth, attorney for Stern. "She stands here today to take her to Texas and put her in the ground all alone. It's sad and it's sick."
Retorted Arthur's lawyer, Stephen Tunstall: "Counsel is trying to trash my client in some kind of emotional appeal. My client is her mother. She wants to take her back to Texas to be buried with the rest of the family. She has the right."
And so it went, all day long and, from the looks of things, for many more days to come. The judge worked hard to keep things on track.
"We're trying to balance the rights and respect of the body with the legal issues," Seidlin said.
Some progress was made: The judge appointed a guardian, Miami attorney Richard Milstein, to protect the interests of Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. He also appointed an administrator, Shane Kelley, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer, to sort through the competing interests and recommend who will bury Smith, and where.
An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
Smith's body is being kept under refrigeration at the medical examiner's office in Dania Beach. She is likely to be embalmed there as early as Friday. But any decision about releasing her body for burial isn't likely until next week at the earliest.
Who's the father?
Birkhead and Stern each claim to be the father of Smith's nearly 6-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. Stern's name is on the birth certificate.
Seidlin repeated several times that the most important issue to his court was the welfare of the baby. He also stressed the importance of maintaining dignity.
"We want to preserve the beauty and model figure of Ms. Smith," he said. "Beauty was important to her, as you all have indicated to me, and we want her to look beautiful when she is placed in her final resting place."
Smith, 39, died February 8 after she was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, Florida.
Among the issues the attorneys wrangled over was whether Stern had legal standing to determine a burial place, or even to take part in the proceedings; and who was Smith's next-of-kin under Florida law.
Tunstall, the attorney for Smith's mother, argued that Dannielynn did not qualify because a child must be over 18 to be legally considered next-of-kin. (Watch CNN's Jeff Toobin try to untangle the legal mess)
Dannielynn was in the Bahamas on Thursday with Stern, attorney Barth said. A restraining order keeps the child from leaving the Bahamas, and Stern is with her, she said.
The Associated Press reported that police on Thursday entered the oceanfront home that Smith and Stern shared. (Full story)
Judge OK's additional DNA sample
One of the most contentious issues before the judge was the collection of DNA from Smith's body to help establish paternity, and to reinforce that Smith is the mother.
Birkhead's attorneys were seeking an additional DNA sample for use in a California paternity suit that began before Smith's death.
Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper performed Smith's autopsy with his associate, and about six medical specialists, including a toxicologist, were present when three DNA samples were collected, Perper said.
Perper went into detail, after an attorney for Birkhead pressed him about the integrity of the chain of evidence. Karen Haas wanted to know what had been done to prevent tampering.
She wanted more blood taken right away -- with at least one attorney present. After nearly three hours of discussion, Seidlin authorized Perper to take a DNA swab from inside Smith's cheek, but allowed no attorneys to be present.
Perper assured Haas that the samples are locked in a refrigerator, and only one doctor has a key. When asked, he said he had no problem allowing a DNA expert to review the samples.
The medical examiner said his office also collected from Smith several vials of blood, a piece of bone with bone marrow inside, and hair samples.
"We did an extremely vast array of tests. There is no reason to keep the body at the time," he said. "We have taken all the sampling necessary."
Copyright 2007 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.
The hits just keep coming
THE former nanny for Anna Nicole Smith has accused the dead Playboy Playmate of starving her baby and engaging in frequent daytime sex with the Bahamian Immigration Minister, Shane Gibson.
In a sworn affidavit that surfaced on Wednesday, Quethlie Alexis, a Haitian employed at the Nassau house where Smith had lived since September, alleges Smith cut the baby's food intake from 3 ounces (85 grams) every three hours to 2.5 ounces.
"[She] was obsessed with making her baby sexy … I was absolutely instructed to underfeed the baby," says Ms Alexis, 37.
The nanny said the infant, Dannielynn, kept a wild and unpredictable routine, while her mother was too busy sleeping due to mood-altering substances to bond with her child.
Dannielynn was "badly underweight", failing to thrive and subject to the extreme mood swings of her mother, the affidavit alleges.
Fired in November by a furious Smith for misplacing a washing machine manual, Ms Alexis recounts daily visits by Mr Gibson from September through November and the pair spending hours in her room.
She said the minister was "completely infatuated" with the billionaire's widow, and the personal relationship enabled the immediate processing of Smith's residency papers for the Bahamas. In the December affidavit, the nanny notes her own work visa renewal had been stalled for months.
Ms Alexis also said Smith twice tried to commit suicide, once by drinking the contents of a liquid "sleeping aid" that put her into an "unrousable coma" within 48 hours.
Shortly after she awoke and was very ill, her lawyer/companion, Howard Stern, and a bodyguard put her to sit in a patio chair by the pool, Ms Alexis says.
But this soon led to Smith trying to drown herself and having to be dragged from the pool by Mr Stern who, Ms Alexis says, told Smith: "If anything happens to you, I would go to jail."
On Wednesday a Bahamian court ordered Mr Stern not to take Dannielynn out of the country.
A Los Angeles judge has lifted an order that kept the former model's body from being buried, saying sufficient DNA required for a legal battle over her daughter was obtained during the autopsy.
In Florida, Judge Larry Seldin meanwhile failed to reach a decision on the fate of Smith's body, and who, as next of kin, could remove it. A hearing has been scheduled for Thursday to consider a request to release the body to Mr Stern, who wants to bury her in the Bahamas.
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