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Thread #98829 Message #1964587
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
12-Feb-07 - 02:00 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Anna Nicole Smith buys the farm
Subject: RE: Obit: Anna Nicole Smith buys the farm
As far as Mr. Gabor, I suspect that his royal behindness has an elderly wife whose property is entailed to her children. Maybe he is looking for the next feathered nest.
The news this evening tells more drama, at her home in the Bahamas. The ABC story is under "entertainment," not some of the other possible headings. Adding insult to injury, it appears that the housekeeper has made off with some pricey objects d'art and equipment.
NASSAU, Bahamas Feb 12, 2007 (AP)— Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month-old daughter and the baby's purported father have reclaimed the Bahamas mansion where they lived before the former Playboy Playmate died last week, Smith's lawyer said.
Not only is the paternity of Smith's baby who could inherit a fortune from Smith's late husband in dispute, but so is the Bahamas mansion where Smith had been living.
Smith, who died in Florida on Thursday, had claimed that a U.S. developer and former boyfriend, G. Ben Thompson, gave her the house. But Thompson said he had only loaned it to Smith and on Friday had the locks changed.
Smith's lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern one of three men who claims to be the baby's father had the locks changed again and on Sunday was once again at the gated waterfront estate, known as "Horizons."
The baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was also there, attorney Wayne Munroe told The Associated Press. An AP Television News reporter saw Stern's mother enter the white house, as well. Another AP reporter saw Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, at the gates, but she did not go inside.
Munroe said he has filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment, drawings and paintings allegedly taken from the home, and authorities interviewed the housekeeper. Police said Sunday they are investigating.
Munroe said the house now belongs to Stern, Smith's companion.
"Right now, Howard is very happy to be reunited with Dannielynn but extremely angry that somebody had the gall to break into Anna's residence," Stern's spokesman, Ron Rale, said Sunday by telephone from Los Angeles.
Smith's ownership of the mansion was the basis of her claim to residency in the Bahamas. In a lawsuit, Smith asked a court to recognize her as the owner and reject Thompson's claim on the house in the exclusive neighborhood. The island chain's Supreme Court has scheduled a Feb. 26 hearing on the matter, Munroe said.
Munroe said the process of authenticating Smith's will could take from a year to 18 months and he declined to name the executor. He said he has not been advised of funeral plans, but that he expected Smith would be buried in the Bahamas alongside Daniel Smith, her 20-year-old son who died here in September.
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