“Via all of it, even with all of the ache, she has been a fantastic mother, a really attentive mother,” Stern, who swapped vows in a dedication ceremony with Smith within the Bahamas however by no means legally married her, mentioned on Larry King Dwell within the wake of Daniel’s loss of life.
“On the funeral, she tried to climb within the casket,” Birkhead advised 20/20. “I knew that Anna could be in no form on her personal after shedding Daniel, as shut as they had been, to handle my daughter.”
When Smith died 5 months later, Paul Marciano mentioned in an announcement, “Personally, I really feel she didn’t survive the lack of her son Daniel, who was the love of her life.”
Smith by no means denied that Stern was Dannielynn’s father, so it might be as much as DNA to show it in a courtroom of regulation as each he and Birkhead vied for custody of the kid within the wake of Anna Nicole’s loss of life. (A number of different males, together with Zsa Zsa Gabor‘s husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt, got here ahead as potential fathers, too.)
There was additionally a dispute over the destiny of Smith’s physique, with Stern wanting to determine on her remaining resting place, too, whereas Smith’s estranged mom, Virgie Arthur, wished to take her daughter’s physique residence to Texas. Stern gained and Smith was buried subsequent to Daniel within the Bahamas.
