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But that's not the only legal development in the world of the former TrimSpa spokeswoman.
In Smith's 2001 will, written using her given name Vickie Lynn Marshall, she gave the entire estate to her son, Daniel, and named her last boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, to guard the trust until Daniel turned 25 reports Reuters.
Meanwhile, Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin ordered Stern, to show up in court next Tuesday to discuss what he knows about Smith's wishes for burial. Since her death, he has been staying in the Bahamas with Smith's infant daughter, Dannielynn. The three were living there when Smith died on a visit to Florida.
"There's a great anxiety that someone will attempt to kidnap Dannielynn," said Ron Rale, attorney for Stern, who is listed on the child's birth certificate as her father.
In other news, RADAR reports that a digital video tape of Anna Nicole Smith seemingly high on drugs
while nine months pregnant with her baby daughter, Dannielynn, is currently
making the rounds after being passed over by a New York City tabloid last
summer.
Radar has seen the video which features the onetime Playboy Playmate discussing her fears about her
impending childbirth a week before she entered the hospital. In it, she
slurs that she suffered such a difficult ordeal with her first child‹her
late son, Daniel that she "wanted to die."
The only thing keeping media execs on either coast from airing it on prime
time is its bizarre provenance. According to multiple sources, the tape was mistakenly
mailed to a Brooklyn auto body shop and copyright issues are at stake.
And finally, a lawyer for the doctor who prescribed drugs to Anna Nicole Smith in the late stages of her pregnancy says giving methadone to Smith was "medically sound and appropriate."
The lawyer for Dr. Sandeep Kapoor responded to allegations of medical misconduct today in a statement to TMZ, saying, in part, "Medical research and protocols confirm that methadone is approved for use by pregnant patients." According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, methadone treatment for pregnant women can "save [a] baby's life" and can "allow [one] to regain...quality of life." The government also says that using methadone while pregnant "will not cause birth defects for [a] baby."
The lawyer also defended the doctor's use of an alias for Smith's methadone prescription, explaining, "The media frenzy surrounding Smith's life and tragic death underscores why public figures may choose to use pseudonyms in order to protect the privacy of their medical treatment."
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