Anna Nicole murdered by lover, lawyers prove
Thursday,
February
22,
2007
Anna
Nicole
Smith
was
murdered
by
her
lover
Howard
K.
Stern,
lawyers
claimed
yesterday.
The
accusation
was
made
during
a
Florida
court
hearing
to
determine
where
the
former
Playboy
Playmate
will
be
buried.
Stern,
Anna
Nicole's
former
lover
Larry
Birkhead
and
the
late
model's
mother,
Virgie
Arthur,
attended
the
hearing
which
descended
into
chaos
when
Stern's
lawyer
Krista
Barth
accused
Birkhead's
attorney
Debra
Opri
of
claiming
her
client
had
killed
Anna
Nicole.
Barth
fumed:
"Miss
Opri
just
made
a
statement
to
my
client
that
he
actually
killed
Miss
Smith.
I
have
to
protect
him."
Judge Larry Seidlin cut dead the accusation, saying the matter of her burial needed to be resolved as Anna Nicole's remains were decomposing faster than expected. After taking a phone call from Joshua Perper, the county's chief medical examiner, Seidlin said: "Time is of the essence. I'm running out of clock." He demanded a clean legal fight from all sides and said he intends to reach a decision by Friday regarding her resting place. The custody battle for the model's body is between Stern - who claims she wanted to be buried in the Bahamas - and Arthur, who wants her daughter to be laid to rest in Texas. Judge Seidlin offered to take over jurisdiction of the ongoing paternity case between Stern and Birkhead, who both claim to be father to Anna Nicole' s five-month-old daughter Dannielynn.
He said it would help with the burial issue if he knew who the father was. His offer was declined. Meanwhile, evidence has emerged that Anna Nicole's will - which left everything to her dead son Daniel - was faxed at 2.18am on 03.02.07, six days before she died. It lists a phone number with the initials RAR - believed to be Ron A. Rale, Stern's lawyer.
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