NASSAU, Bahamas – Anna Nicole Smith’s 5-month-old daughter and the baby’s purported father have reclaimed the Bahamas mansion where they lived before the former Playboy Playmate died last week, Smith’s lawyer said.
Not only is the paternity of Smith’s baby – who stands to inherit a fortune from Smith’s late husband – in dispute, but so is the Bahamas mansion where Smith had been living.
Smith, who died in Florida on Thursday, had claimed that a U.S. developer and former boyfriend, G. Ben Thompson, gave her the house. But Thompson said he had only loaned it to Smith – and on Friday had the locks changed.
Smith’s lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern – one of three men who claims to be the baby’s father – had the locks changed again and on Sunday was once again at the gated waterfront estate, known as “Horizons.”
The baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was also there, attorney Wayne Munroe said.
Munroe said he has filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment, drawings and paintings allegedly taken from the home, and authorities interviewed the housekeeper. Police said Sunday they are investigating.
Munroe said the house now belongs to Stern, Smith’s companion.
Who will get custody of the baby girl was not clear.
Who’s the daddy?
The paternity of Anna Nicole Smith’s 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, is in question. Smith died in Florida on Thursday. Among the contenders:
Howard K. Stern, Smith’s lawyer and companion. Stern is listed on a birth certificate as the baby’s father
Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Smith’s, has filed a suit claiming he is the father.
Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, announced that he had a decade-long affair with Smith and he may be the girl’s father.
The New York Daily News also recently reported that Smith’s half-sister, Donna Hogan, says Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.
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