The body of Anna Nicole Smith has finally been embalmed under a court order issued a day earlier. Two embalmers finished the job around noon on Saturday, according to Joshua Perper, the Broward County medical examiner. They promised not to discuss, write about, photograph or draw the body.
“They did an excellent job, and the body will be ready for viewing with no problem,” Perper said. “In other words, she’s basically looking like she looked in life or very, very close to that.”
Lawyers for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims he is the father of Smith’s baby girl, had fought to delay the embalming until an additional DNA sample was taken from her body on Thursday.
The body remains at the medical examiner’s facility, awaiting developments in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, courthouse, where Smith’s estranged mother Virgie Arthur and companion Howard Stern will resume their battle on Tuesday over where the Playboy model should be buried. Arthur wants Smith taken to her home state of Texas; Stern wants to put her in a plot in the Bahamas next to her son. Perper said he was hopeful a decision would come soon.
“I don’t have any kind of reservations or fears that there will be any further deterioration of the body because of the delay in the decision of the judge,” he said. “It is my belief that the judge will make the decision as soon as the party will present their case.”
The question of who will inherit Smith’s estate was also thrown into confusion on Friday with the release of a 2001 will in which the former Playboy centrefold said her fortune should be held in trust for her son - who died last year.
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Comment by Rho on 3 March 2007:
are we going to see the body of anna nicole’s dead body? viewing, embalming, autospy????? we would like to see it!!
Comment by Ruby on 3 March 2007:
very interesting
Comment by Angelhush on 7 March 2007:
Just leave The Lady alone for christ sakes. Its no ones bussiness to see those photos.Society is getting to be a real dissapointment.
Comment by StarNDisguise25 on 16 March 2007:
Ok everyone in this world…………The lovely Anna Nicole Smith is gone. An at this point in time, everything that has to do with this needs to stop. Whether she killed herself, someone ki;lled he, it’s really none of our business to watch any videos or see any pictures of those medical examiner’s chop up her body. It’s just not right. I think you all need to focus on your own lives rather than pretruding into other’s. Leave her alone. Just let her be.
Comment by lasherie on 25 March 2007:
i want to see her corpse
Comment by hayley on 26 March 2007:
fuken leave her alone, please she was awesome!! FREAKIN GENIOUS!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Celebrity Gossip on 26 March 2007:
Comment by alison on 29 March 2007:
This picture is a total fake. Anna Nicole has suffered enough with the lost of her son, and now her own death. Before you say distasteful things, think about Dannylynn.
Comment by Mr.Blaze on 25 April 2007:
Yeah I wanna see the dead body of Anna Nicole Smith
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Comment by neecy on 26 April 2007:
you goddamned ghouls…..
Comment by .............. on 26 April 2007:
HAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHA
Comment by dddj on 3 May 2007:
you people are so sick nobody ever lets a person r.i.p they always trying and make an ass out of them
Comment by somebody on 22 May 2007:
You people are so goddamn ignorant. I hope y’all rot in hell.
Comment by Don't ask on 7 June 2007:
Honestly, she looks beautiful dead
Comment by doom3r on 11 June 2007:
wow where did you get that picture, when i first saw the picture it scared the shit out of me because it is like 11 o’clock where i live and i just saw cannibal holocaust.
wowowowowow
Comment by annanicoleDESERVEDdeath!! on 19 June 2007:
Peronally i think as a human being, anna nicole smith was lousy, she had no morals, and the best thing that will ever happen to her and larry birkhead’s daughter Dannilynn was that anna died before she was able to corupt poor little dannilynn, i know that anna is in hell and deservedly so, but anyone who tries to put pics of her corpse is just frickin demented, and god will punish them.
Comment by bruce mc millan on 20 June 2007:
unfortunatly the internet has once agian shown us that nothing is private and respect is a thing of the past.
bruce mcmillan,25years embalming nz.
Comment by jacob on 24 June 2007:
dude how the fuck did u get that pic??????????????u got any more????????????
Comment by vanessa on 28 July 2007:
I so sorry you dead i cry
Comment by jessie sanchez on 28 July 2007:
you so great wonmen anna and my brother love you so much and when you dead my famila so sad about you.
from. jessie sanchez
Comment by Jamie Lockridge on 7 August 2007:
I will miss Anna Nicole Smith for she was a true beauty and will be missed by family and friends.
Comment by soprano1018 on 10 September 2007:
I REALLY THINK IT’S SO FRIKIN MESSED UP THAT SHE DIED AND EVERYTHING THE TABLOIDS OR WEBSITES DO TO DISCRACE HER NAME WILL BE AVAILABLE TO LITTLE INNOCENT DANNYLYNN WHEN SHE GROWS UP.WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR CHILD TO REMEMBER YOU THAT WAY????
Comment by Rick Jamez on 31 October 2007:
If you seriously think that picture is real you need punched in the face repeatedly.
Comment by tornin2 on 3 November 2007:
hey i wish people would leave her alone she was a human being and for that she deserves respect we have all done things we r not proud of but i think she will be forever rememberes as a fun loving down to earth person
Comment by brandy on 10 November 2007:
Let her rest in peace along with her son…the lady had a great life she went from being nobody to a star and not a lot of money 2 a lot…she earned it…People should being good things so her Dannilynn doesn’t have to hear about it..People make mistake I’m sure she did and we all do…and good luck and keep it up to Larry &Howard..Let her know her mothers is its always important to a child..
Comment by Heidi Burns on 16 November 2007:
Anna Nicole Smith was a beautiful lady.
I was a big fan of her.
She was funny too and I liked when she act like a drama queen.
Just think she’s in heaven with her widow husband Howard J Marshall and her son Daniel Smith.
She’s in a place of no more pain.
But I have to say I feel sorry for the baby Dannielynn.
It makes me sad it makes me cry all I can think of was she’s been through so many trails,the loss of Daniel Smith and her Widowed Husband Howard Marshall.
I didn’t think she married him for his Money because I think she really loved that Elderly Man.
The funeral Service was wonderful.
Before she died she looked terribly awful and her corpse was ugly.
But she’ll surely be missed.
Comment by evelyn on 27 January 2008:
Anna been through so much People like that, will be cursed.
Comment by muppets on 22 April 2008:
ha!
hypocrisy!
your whining about other peoples sick minds when your viewing the image yourself…
im sure shes in a much better place with alot of prescription drugs and rich men….
Comment by janelle on 29 April 2008:
i will miss her so much its a shame she died she had so much going for herself. god bless you anna nichole smith i love you forever
Comment by Stan on 18 May 2008:
She doesn’t need any help making an ass out of herself. She did fine on her own.
Comment by Tex on 8 June 2008:
The old man had to be senile. Look up the word Gold Digger in the dictionary and her picture will be beside it.