May Anna Nicole Smith - Finally Rest in Peace!

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, February 28, 2007

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. Virgie Arthur needs to accept this and move on!!

The starlet’s estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, challenged last week’s ruling by Judge Larry Seidlin, who gave control of the body to an advocate for Smith’s 5-month-old daughter. Arthur wanted to bury the starlet in her native Texas.

But Smith’s boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, had argued that she had wanted to be buried in the Bahamas next to her 20-year-old son, who died last year of apparent drug-related causes. The 4th District Court of Appeal agreed.

The trial court concluded that Smith’s “last ascertainable wish” was to be buried alongside her son, the appellate judges said in their ruling. “This finding is not essentially disputed.”

It was not immediately clear when Smith’s body would be transported, but attorney Richard Milstein, the baby’s advocate, has said a funeral in the Bahamas could be held as early as Thursday.

Smith’s body has been stored at a medical examiner’s office since shortly after she died Feb. 8 at 39. A cause of death has not been released.

During the Wednesday hearing, two members of the panel said Smith’s purchase of burial plots in the Bahamas suggested a desire to be taken there.

“Why wouldn’t that be written evidence?” Judge Mark Polen asked the attorney for Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur.

Arthur had challenged a circuit judge’s decision last week to give control of Smith’s burial to the court-appointed advocate for Smith’s infant daughter, Dannielynn. Arthur’s lawyer, Roberta Mandel, argued to the appeals court that the mother is the legal next of kin.

Appeals Judge Barry Stone asked the advocate’s attorney, Christopher Carver, how his client could figure out what a 5-month-old baby wanted.

“You would need a crystal ball,” Stone said.

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