LA court orders Anna Nicole's body preserved
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DANIA BEACH, Florida  - A California judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the remains of former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith but ordered her body preserved until a February 20 hearing in the paternity case surrounding her baby.
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Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother asked a Florida appeals court on Monday to overturn last week's court ruling that would allow the burial of the former Playboy Playmate in the Bahamas.
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Anna Nicole Smith's body must be held for DNA testing in the paternity dispute involving the former Playboy Playmate's partner, her 5-month old daughter and another man, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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An autopsy will be conducted Friday to help determine why Anna Nicole Smith died, officials said. Late Thursday, police carried bags of evidence out of the hotel where she was found unconscious. Also, one of the men involved in a paternity dispute over Smith's baby daughter is seeking a DNA sample, and a hearing is set for Friday morning.
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Former Playboy pinup Anna Nicole Smith was laid to rest in the Bahamas on Friday as a flock of doves flew skyward, following a three-week battle for her corpse and amid legal wrangling over her 5-month-old baby.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that the body of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old baby daughter.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - Former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas after most of the parties feuding over her corpse reached a deal on Thursday to lay her to rest next to her dead son.
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A Florida appeals court Wednesday upheld a judge's ruling that allowed Anna Nicole Smith to be buried in the Bahamas, agreeing evidence supports that's what the former Playboy Playmate wanted.
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The Anna Nicole Smith hearings bounced back to Florida on Wednesday, where an appeals court was considering a request by the Playboy model's mother to let her bury her daughter in Texas.
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith said in a 2001 will that her estate should be given to her longtime companion to hold in trust for her son, who has died, according to a copy released Friday. The document said Howard K.
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Judge Larry Seidlin granted custody of the body to a guardian of Anna Nicole Smithâs infant daughter.
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NASSAU, Bahamas  - Anna Nicole Smith tried   frantically to revive her 20-year-old son even after he had   been pronounced dead at the Bahamas hospital where the former   Playboy centerfold had given birth to a baby girl days before,   her attorney said on Wednesday.
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While a medical examiner in Florida says Anna Nicole Smith's body is decomposing so rapidly that a public viewing may not be possible, the funeral director handling the still-unburied corpse of James Brown says the soul singer is looking good.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her baby daughter had already been obtained.
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A Texas judge ordered that a hair that could exonerate a man executed for a 1989 murder be preserved for possible DNA testing, a legal reform group said on Monday.
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A judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on the body of Anna Nicole Smith as part of a paternity suit involving her infant daughter, but he ordered that the body be preserved until a hearing in 10 days, attorneys said.
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Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, alongside her son, it was announced Thursday after a tearful judge left the decision up to the attorney for the model's baby daughter.