Anna Nicole Smith Laid to Rest Near Son
Mar 02 3:09 PM US/Eastern
By BEN FOX Associated Press Writer
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Former Playboy Playmate was laid to rest Friday with all the pomp and circumstance of a royal funeral, but litigation surrounding a multi-million-dollar inheritance and the paternity of her baby daughter remain very much alive.
The principals waging a three-way custody battle over 5-month-old Dannielynn Smith's companion Howard K. Stern, her mother Virgie Arthur and former boyfriend Larry Birkhead walked into the white columned church, and for at least a moment their bickering was put aside for the lavish closed casket service.
Smith was then taken to her final resting place in a mahogany coffin draped in a rhinestone-studded pink blanket as police, smartly dressed in white belted tunics and pith helmets, maintained order. Onlookers, mostly Bahamians, spontaneously broke out into the hymn "When Peace Like a River" as the white hearse carrying the 39-year-old blonde bombshell and the rest of the funeral cortege arrived at Lakeview Memorial Gardens.
In a last-minute bid to halt the burial, Arthur sought to have Supreme Court Justice Anita Adams grant her client custody of Smith's body, but the Bahamian judge denied it, according to Lilliemae MacDonald, the justice's secretary. That cleared the way for Smith to be buried next to her 20-year-old son Daniel, who died of apparent drug use in September.
When the onlookers saw Arthur arrive at the cemetery, they booed. They cheered when Birkhead stepped out of his limo. The guests disappeared under a green tent that covered the gravesite amid tight security. Smith was being buried in a tiara and custom-made, beaded gown, said organizer Patrik Simpson ofCalif.
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