Posted on 09/28/2006 6:44:38 PM PDT by Cecily
Just two weeks after the mysterious death of her 20-year-old son Daniel Smith, Anna Nicole Smith has reportedly wed her lawyer Howard K. Stern in a private ceremony on board a catamaran off of Nassau in the Bahamas.
The rumored marriage, reported by Star magazine, remains unconfirmed by Smith's publicist at this time.
Howard K. Stern made the claim in a September 26th interview on the Larry King Show that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter, Dannie Lynn Hope, born three days before her son's tragic death on September 10th.
This claim is in conflict with the assertion by paparazzi photographer Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith's, that he fathered the child. Birkhead told US Weekly that he is the real father of the baby girl - and he wants a paternity test to prove his claim. "I know I am the father of the child," Birkhead said in an interview on the magazine's web site. "I look forward to having a relationship with my new daughter."
If the report is true, this would be the third marriage for Anna Nicole Smith, who was previously married to Billy Wayne Smith (father of Daniel Smith) and 89-year-old Texas oil magnate E. Howard Marshall, who died in 1995. A bitter battle over his fortune led Anna Nicole to the Supreme Court earlier this year, where it was ruled she had the right to continue to pursue a legal case to claim a share of his estate.
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This link has an account of the funeral, and it mentions that an official cause of death is still forthcoming.
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