Updated Sun. Feb. 18 2007 8:43 AM ET

Associated Press



DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- The body of starlet Anna Nicole Smith was embalmed Saturday, under a court order issued a day earlier.

Two embalmers finished the job around noon, 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."

Attorneys for photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims he's the father of Smith's baby girl, fought to delay the embalming until an additional DNA sample was taken from her body Thursday.

The body remains at the medical examiner's facility, awaiting developments in a Fort Lauderdale courthouse, where Smith's estranged mother Virgie Arthur and her companion Howard K. Stern, resume their battle Tuesday over where the Playboy model should be buried.

Arthur wants Smith brought to her home state of Texas; Stern wants to put her in a plot in the Bahamas next to her son.

This is going to get more interesting

luv4u said:

I say take Anna Nicole and James Brown on a U.S. tour.

uPtoWnNY said:

Damn

Janfriend said:

uPtoWnNY said:

You know if it could make more than 200 dollars both families would be all over the shit.

It's already a media circus, so why not make loot off it? I'd pay to see the Godfather of Soul one last time.

According to this article its all Hugh Hefners fault.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a..._playmates




By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer Sun Feb 18, 10:41 PM ET

MIAMI - The selection of
Anna Nicole Smith as a Playboy Playmate in 1992 made her a member of an exclusive sorority. Her death at 39 put her in a more grisly club — Playmates who haven't reached their 50th birthday.
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Automobile accidents, drug overdoses, homicides, a plane crash — all have claimed the lives of Playmates. The cause of Smith's death is still unclear.

"It's sad how many girls we've lost," said Peter Gowland, who photographed a number of centerfolds for Playboy in the 1950s and 60s with the help of his wife.

In 1968, Gowland photographed Paige Young. In 1974, she was dead of a drug overdose.
Jayne Mansfield, another Playmate he photographed, died in a car crash in 1967 at 34.

"It's a curse to be beautiful," Gowland said.

More than 600 women have graced Playboy's centerfold since the magazine began publishing in the 1950s.

Their lives after the magazine have been both in and out of the spotlight, but their limited number and Playboy's wide circulation has meant that the death of one can become bombshell news.

Perhaps before Smith, the most headline-grabbing death of a Playmate was that of 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten. Just months after she became the magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1980, she was murdered by her jealous estranged husband.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has said he and others never really got over Stratten's death. The magazine ran a tribute to her and movies were made about her life.

Eve Meyer, a 1955 Playmate, was one of more than 550 people killed when two airliners collided on takeoff at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1977. She was 46. More recently, Ellen Louise Maligo, known in Playboy as "Star Stowe," was found murdered at 40 in Coral Springs in 1997.

Marilyn Monroe, the cover girl for the magazine's inaugural issue, famously died at 36 from a 1962 overdose of sleeping pills.

Tonya Crews, Carol Willis and 1970 Playmate of the Year Claudia Jennings all died in car accidents in the 1960s and 70s while still in their 20s. Playmate Willy Rey, pictured on Playboy's first stock certificates, was 23 when she died of a drug overdose in 1973.

Twenty-eight-year-old Playmate Elisa Bridges died in 2002 after being found unresponsive in bed. Playboy said she died of natural causes, but a coroner's report said Bridges died of an accidental drug overdose.

"There've been some that do too much booze and too much drugs, just as in the general population," said former Playboy editor Gretchen Edgren, author of "The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds."

A page on Playboy's Web site is dedicated to remembering Smith.

"Perhaps
Billy Joel should write a sequel to his song 'Only the Good Die Young' simply changing the last word to 'Beautiful.' We'll miss you Vicki," photo editor
Gary Cole wrote on the site's blog, using Smith's real first name.

give me a fuckin' break. how about all those beautiful women out there who don't die of drug overdoses and other foolishness? Being beautiful is so NOT a curse but being plagued with low self esteem is.



now when are we gonna hear about those autopsy results.

JasmineFire said:

And being plagued by locusts.

I don't think ANS was troubled with locusts, but let's wait for the autopsy results.

JasmineFire said:

rite. I don't think being beautiful kills. But.....I do think its hard for beautiful women. I know chics who are gorgeous, and have issues due to their looks.

SureThing said:

it can be hard, but it's not a friggin' curse.

What I don't understand, is why she left her estate to her dead son

susannah said:

I personally think the dead son is the father of the newborn.

jerseykrs said:

This is all just rather fucked up.

susannah said:

i'm willing to bet that she wrote her will before he died and then never updated it.

susannah said:

Hey, that's my theory!!!

JasmineFire said:

and that is why the son had to be removed from the situation

it makes it easy to get all consipiracy theory'ed about this one.

JasmineFire said:

There is no such thing as a "curse", period.

JustErin said:

Oh YES there is!

And OIUJA BOREDS are the DEVIL!!!!!

JustErin said:

All periods are a curse.

Lemme tell you,
that sum pretty evil shit,
when y'all on the rag.

Illustrator said:

I shoulda known that was coming.

They're soo right! Being gorgeous is so difficult!

NDRU said:

Oh ya, so when are you gonna kick the bucket?

susannah said:

She probably hadn't gotten around to changing her will yet.

JustErin said:

Tough to say. We tend to die sudden tragic deaths. But don't pretend you're not one of the Sad, the Beautiful!
[Edited 2/20/07 15:14pm]

emm said:

um..no. she probably left her estate to her son because it is very common for parents to do that.

then her son died and she never updated her will because she had just given birth to her daughter.

the end.

Can you believe the judge in this case? What an a-hole - sounds like another Judge Ito to me. He's acting more like an actor than a judge. Another moron looking for his 15 minutes of fame.

uPtoWnNY said:

Yeah, he's being a total jerk.

I think I hate him.

JasmineFire said:

ok so you aren't one to think conspiracy. that's cool
for those that are... it is easy to think that one death relates to the other

that's all i'm sayin'