Anna Nicole burial set for Friday, mother loses appeal

Anna Nicole Smith will be buried next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas on Friday morning after a Florida court rejected an appeal by the late star's estranged mother.

Virgie Arthur challenged a ruling to bury Smith in Nassau, and her appeal was heard yesterday morning.

However, judges at Florida's Fourth District Court Of Appeals overruled Arthur's bid for custody of her daughter's remains late yesterday, re-awarding the corpse to attorney Richard Milstein, the legally-appointed guardian to Smith's baby daughter Dannielynn.

Milstein, Smith's companion Howard K Stern and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead had already agreed to bury the late model in the Bahamas, her adopted home.

The funeral will now take place, as planned, on Friday morning.