Judge orders DNA test on Nicole Smith's body

A judge ordered another DNA sample be taken from Anna Nicole Smith’s body as he heard fiery arguments in the fight over the former Playboy Playmate’s remains and custody of her infant daughter.

The swab of Smith’s cheek was to be taken during a lunchtime recess yesterday, despite the objections of lawyers for her long-term companion, Howard Stern, and her estranged mother, Vergie Arthur, and testimony from the medical examiner and DNA experts such an additional sample was not likely to be necessary.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin said he wanted to make sure all samples were taken before Smith was buried, so her body would not have to be exhumed.

“When we bury her, I want it to be forever,” he said in the second day of an emergency hearing.

Stern claims he is executor of Smith’s will and wants to have her buried next to her son in the Bahamas.

Arthur wants her daughter buried in her home state of Texas. Smith’s body remains at the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, and Seidlin said it would stay there. “This body’s not leaving Broward County till I make the ruling.”