Anna Nicole Smith’s funeral went on as planned today in the Bahamas despite her mother’s last-minute legal ploy to try to put a stop to it and have her daughter buried in Texas. Not only did Anna Nicole Smith’s mother continue her fight to bury her daughter somewhere else on the day of her funeral, but the father of Anna’s deceased son Daniel had his lawyer send a request to the Chief Magistrate of the Bahamas asking to have Daniel’s body exhumed and moved to Texas. It’s unclear whether the request was related to Anna’s mother’s fight for the body.
Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead, who are legally disputing custody of Anna’s child but seem to have reconciled after she died, arrived separately and were seen embracing inside. Anna’s mother was one of the last people to make it to the ceremony, and was met by boos from the crowd gathered outside.
About 100 people attended the funeral while curious onlookers, photographers and news crew clamored for a glimpse of Anna’s send off. It wasn’t cheap for press to get inside the gated community where the church was located. Camera crews were required to submit requests to cover the event and to pay a fee of $2,000 per camera and $5,000 per live feed.
Howard K. Stern says that the funeral was set up according to Anna’s wishes and that “she did have a lot of specific things that she wanted” Anna wore a pink beaded dress she had custom made specifically for her funeral in a prescient or wishful moment, and was donned with a tiara. Pink flowers decorated the church. Her casket was draped with a pink velvet fabric dripping with pink ribbons and feathers. Bobby Trendy wanted to hot glue them on, but according to her wishes he was denied.
Anna’s casket made it to the graveyard at about 1:30 PM EST. She was buried next to her son and with an urn containing some of the ashes of her late second husband J. Howard Marshall, the billionaire octagenarian whose money she was still fighting for when she died.
Howard K. Stern’s eulogy focused on Anna’s “truth,” and how he had a real relationship with her and will miss her. He said she was a smart woman who knew what it took to be famous.
Country singer Joe Nichols sang two songs requested by Howard K. Stern for the funeral, “I’ll Wait for You” and her favorite country song, Dolly Parton’s “Wings of a Dove.”
Anna’s infant daughter Dannielynn was not at the service.
The coroner who examined Anna says that he will be able to come up with a final determination of death within nine or ten days. Another medical examiner, the one Anna hired to examine Daniel independently, says that he doesn’t believe methadone was involved in her death. If he didn’t do the autopsy, it sounds like speculation to me.
Pictures from Entertainment Tonight.
Update: The word “tacky” in the title has been removed. The rest of the article was pretty neutral.
wtf let her RIP assholes..
It looks like her style and what she likes.
Glad they honored that.
they all look like they was in on it.
while she didn’t do much, she was our age. god bless and rest you ANS.
your right..how the hell is PINK considered tack..its a color that she loved
I think it is sweet Larry Birkhead wore the pink tie.
finally.
I hear you guys. The word “tacky” in the title has been removed.
Nee means born, so it should be nee Vicky Hogan
I didn’t pay that much attention to her when she was alive but I must say I feel sad about her death – too young and she was mistreated by people she cared about. “Tacky” is YOU who would also mistreat her with verbal abuse after she has died, knowing her history, and she can’t defend herself.
OK. Here goes my two cents. The ceremony itself (the flowers, the feathers on the coffin) was not “tacky” in a sense it was how she wanted. Not my taste. But heck..every one to its own.
What I did find TACKY..was how Howard K Stern sold the rights to the funeral to the press. What the heck? It’s what she wanted? So she was still milking her story beyond the grave? Give me a break Howard!!
Howard K. Stern…a killer and a money making machine.. all in one. O.J. Simpson needs to take a few lessons from this guy.
ehhh hem, clears throat, (lol)
listen, sadly this is not the last chapter of the freakshow that is the life anna created for herself. she planned almost every detail of her funeral…it was an obsession of hers.
anna made a good chunk of her living selling “stories” to the entertainment news outlets. one of her most recent exploits was selling the film footage of her having a caesarian section while giving birth. after that, she was paid for those interviews with her mourning daniel….this is how she operated, and while howard is scummy, he spent years basically doing the bidding gof this drugged out tramp.
the picture of her next to the casket is creepy. it doesnt even look like anna. using the word tacky is pretty spot on in this case.
The picture does look like her, it’s just from when she was younger. Looks like about the time she was in the Naked Gun movie.
Keep in mind she was also majorly broke. She still hasn’t gotten any money from her dead husband but racked up a ton of debt on the premise she would be getting it. There was a profile on tv the other day saying she was up to 10 million in debt. They weren’t exactly breaking her door down with acting jobs so she had to make money where she could. It was her own fault she was in that position but I can see how she would take any job she could. even if it was something most people would find tacky. I think it’s pretty apparent she didn’t have much of a sense of propriety.
The “picture” is supposed to be a painted portrait of anna nicole, a la’ Marilyn, last I read, for what it’s worth.
I have a hard time feeling sorry for somebody’s adversity when she went after it like a shark while posing for the cameras. She was a professional litigant and an outrageous “dirty girl” blonde doing a marilyn stereotype icon hopeful. Anna/Vicky was beautiful physically, but glamorizing sluttishness is really just pretty much what I would call tacky. She could’ve just been a great model, but that wasn’t enough for her – she wanted the drama, and this untimley demise, while predictable and sad, is the best publicity of all, so, rest in peace, Anna, you always wanted to be immortal and went out with a bang. Please let’s not see any more people dying of hedonism.
I didn’t know ANS was accustomed to being buried 🙂