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After reading this i just wanna smack these people
i cant believe virgie arthur is gonna try to have daniel and anna exhumed and moved to moved to texas
some one REALLY needs to slap this lady
maybe if she was like this when anna was alive in trying to see anna or get her off drugs
she would still be alive
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17418082/
Updated: 17 minutes ago
NASSAU, Bahamas - A private plane carrying Anna Nicole Smiths body arrived Friday in the Bahamas, where the former Playboy Playmate and reality TV star will be laid to rest in a beaded gown and tiara after two private funeral ceremonies.
But the legal wrangling that began with her unexpected death at age 39 was unlikely to end with the funeral: Her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, will likely try to get the body out of the Bahamas, said her lawyer, Tom Pirtle. He would not elaborate about possible legal action.
The flight bearing her body left Florida with her casket after authorities escorted a black hearse to Miami International Airport, as news helicopters tracked the procession from the medical examiners office in Fort Lauderdale. Jim Joseffy, managing director of IBC Airways, which operated the flight, confirmed the plane landed in Nassau.
We are not exactly sure what shape it is going to be, Pirtle said Thursday in a telephone interview, just hours after saying Arthur had decided to drop her legal challenges in Florida courts.
Nassau police were already controlling access to the Mount Horeb Baptist Church, where one private ceremony closed to all but 300 guests and camera crews from Entertainment Tonight was planned. The burial was to be at the Lakeview Memorial Gardens, said Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Smiths 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn. A judge gave him control of the remains.
Both services are closed to the public, Milstein said in a statement issued Thursday by a public relations firm. He did not return phone messages left at his office and on his cell phone seeking additional comment.
Smiths Feb. 8 death in a hotel room set off legal disputes in California, Florida and the Bahamas. Her boyfriend, mother and an ex-boyfriend have argued over who should get the body and who should take custody of Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars.
Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward medical examiner, said he will announce Smiths cause of death next week.
This was a complex case, Perper said. It was an unusual case from a medical point of view.
Smith will be buried in a tiara and custom-made, beaded gown next to her 20-year-old son Daniel following an over the top memorial service, said a friend helping to organize the memorial.
The service, with about 300 guests, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and music by a well-known singer whose name organizers were not ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif.
It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off, Simpson said Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. Of course it will be over the top because its Anna Nicole.
The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said. Arthur, boyfriend Howard K. Stern and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will temporarily put aside their differences to attend the services.
Ron Rale, an attorney for Stern, would not disclose any funeral information.
We want her to have a beautiful funeral, something she would have wanted, Rale said by telephone from the Bahamas.
Arthur had wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas, and fought last weeks ruling from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin that gave control of the body to Milstein.
But Stern insisted the former Playboy Playmate wanted to be buried next to Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes last year. Milstein agreed.
On Wednesday, a Florida appeals court upheld Seidlins ruling.
Perper said embalmers would have to take another look at the body to make sure it would be suitable for a viewing. He had told Seidlin during the hearing that she was decomposing. Stern, Arthur and others have already viewed the body at Perpers office, and Simpson said the casket would likely be closed during the ceremony.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy Playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
i cant believe virgie arthur is gonna try to have daniel and anna exhumed and moved to moved to texas
some one REALLY needs to slap this lady
maybe if she was like this when anna was alive in trying to see anna or get her off drugs
she would still be alive
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17418082/
Updated: 17 minutes ago
NASSAU, Bahamas - A private plane carrying Anna Nicole Smiths body arrived Friday in the Bahamas, where the former Playboy Playmate and reality TV star will be laid to rest in a beaded gown and tiara after two private funeral ceremonies.
But the legal wrangling that began with her unexpected death at age 39 was unlikely to end with the funeral: Her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, will likely try to get the body out of the Bahamas, said her lawyer, Tom Pirtle. He would not elaborate about possible legal action.
The flight bearing her body left Florida with her casket after authorities escorted a black hearse to Miami International Airport, as news helicopters tracked the procession from the medical examiners office in Fort Lauderdale. Jim Joseffy, managing director of IBC Airways, which operated the flight, confirmed the plane landed in Nassau.
We are not exactly sure what shape it is going to be, Pirtle said Thursday in a telephone interview, just hours after saying Arthur had decided to drop her legal challenges in Florida courts.
Nassau police were already controlling access to the Mount Horeb Baptist Church, where one private ceremony closed to all but 300 guests and camera crews from Entertainment Tonight was planned. The burial was to be at the Lakeview Memorial Gardens, said Richard Milstein, the court-appointed advocate for Smiths 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn. A judge gave him control of the remains.
Both services are closed to the public, Milstein said in a statement issued Thursday by a public relations firm. He did not return phone messages left at his office and on his cell phone seeking additional comment.
Smiths Feb. 8 death in a hotel room set off legal disputes in California, Florida and the Bahamas. Her boyfriend, mother and an ex-boyfriend have argued over who should get the body and who should take custody of Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars.
Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward medical examiner, said he will announce Smiths cause of death next week.
This was a complex case, Perper said. It was an unusual case from a medical point of view.
Smith will be buried in a tiara and custom-made, beaded gown next to her 20-year-old son Daniel following an over the top memorial service, said a friend helping to organize the memorial.
The service, with about 300 guests, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and music by a well-known singer whose name organizers were not ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif.
It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off, Simpson said Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. Of course it will be over the top because its Anna Nicole.
The burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens will be much more intimate, with about 30 people, he said. Arthur, boyfriend Howard K. Stern and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead will temporarily put aside their differences to attend the services.
Ron Rale, an attorney for Stern, would not disclose any funeral information.
We want her to have a beautiful funeral, something she would have wanted, Rale said by telephone from the Bahamas.
Arthur had wanted to bury Smith in her native Texas, and fought last weeks ruling from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin that gave control of the body to Milstein.
But Stern insisted the former Playboy Playmate wanted to be buried next to Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes last year. Milstein agreed.
On Wednesday, a Florida appeals court upheld Seidlins ruling.
Perper said embalmers would have to take another look at the body to make sure it would be suitable for a viewing. He had told Seidlin during the hearing that she was decomposing. Stern, Arthur and others have already viewed the body at Perpers office, and Simpson said the casket would likely be closed during the ceremony.
Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. The reality TV star and Playboy Playmate had been fighting his family over his estimated $500 million fortune since his death in 1995.
