New court battle over Anna Nicole's remains

A Florida appeals court today issued a stay in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith’s body, ruling that her remains cannot be moved to the Bahamas until the court hears a challenge from the starlet’s estranged mother.

The Florida 4th District Court of Appeal agreed to hear Virgie Arthur’s request to overturn a judge’s decision giving control of Ms Smith’s body to the attorney for the centrefold’s infant daughter. That attorney decided she should be buried next to her son in the Bahamas.