Anna Nicole Smith Body Held for DNA Test
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By MATT SEDENSKY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - 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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Authorities issued a death certificate for the son of Anna Nicole Smith but left the cause of death undetermined pending toxicology tests, a lawyer for the former reality TV star's family said Thursday.
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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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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 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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Custody of the body of former centerfold Anna Nicole Smith was awarded Thursday to the guardian for her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. In a rare show of unity representatives for the various parties who had fought for the body said Smith would be buried in the Bahamas.
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A Los Angeles judge on Friday  refused to order an emergency DNA test on the remains of Anna  Nicole Smith but ordered that her body be preserved until a  February 20 hearing in the paternity case surrounding her baby.
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Anna Nicole Smith frantically tried to revive her stricken son and had to be sedated after he died, her attorney said Wednesday. Authorities termed the death "suspicious" and said criminal charges could be filed.
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Photographer Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, tells Us Weekly magazine that, no matter what a national TV audience was told Tuesday night, he's the real father of the reality TV star's newborn girl. And he's seeking a DNA test to prove it.
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A pathologist probing the death of   model Anna Nicole Smith's son said on Thursday that since the   cause has been found, the case can be closed without holding a   planned inquest in the Bahamas next month.
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Anna Nicole Smith &#151; dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket &#151; was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.
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The body of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith was moved from a Florida morgue on Friday for a final journey to the Bahamas for burial, a Reuters eyewitness said.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A judge in Florida made public Anna Nicole Smith's 5-year-old will on Friday and gave the go-ahead for the former Playboy playmate to be embalmed.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday lifted an order that kept former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's body from being buried, saying that sufficient DNA required for a legal battle over her infant daughter was obtained during the autopsy.
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DANIA BEACH, Florida  - An autopsy on former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith on Friday did not immediately determine the cause of death, a Florida medical examiner said.
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NASSAU, Bahamas  - A coroner's inquest will be   held in the Bahamas next month into the "suspicious" death of   Daniel Smith, the 20-year-old son of reality TV star and former   Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith, Bahamian authorities said   on Wednesday.
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Prince Frederic von Anhalt said Monday he plans to file a paternity challenge to gain custody of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter, even if it costs him his marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor. "If the court rules in my favor, I will go to the Bahamas and pick up the child," he said, noting that he would ask for a DNA test.