Anna Nicole Smith’s mother received permission to see the former Playboy Playmate’s daughter, her lawyer said.

Some members of the legal profession and other court-watchers are cringing over the way Judge Larry Seidlin wept – no, sobbed – on live, national TV as he announced a ruling in the dispute over where Anna Nicole Smith should be buried.

Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother told a judge tonight she wants to exhume her grandson – buried in the Bahamas – and bring his body to Texas to be buried along with his starlet mother in her home state.

A light blue 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II sold for $690,000 (€572,000) to a Houston multimillionaire who said he plans to put it in a museum he wants to build in his home town.