Anna Nicole's body bound for Bahamas

The coffin holding Anna Nicole Smith’s body was today loaded onto a private flight to the Bahamas for her funeral, after weeks of legal wrangling over where the pin-up should be buried.

Authorities had escorted a slow-moving black hearse to Miami International Airport through deserted, pre-dawn streets and on highway car pool lanes, as news helicopters tracked the procession from the Broward County medical examiner’s office in Fort Lauderdale.