The estate of the late Anna Nicole Smith has been hit with a new lawsuit by a Texas law firm over unpaid legal bills.

The lawyer who represented Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter in the dispute over the starlet’s body is seeking nearly $200,000 (€140,600) for his work.

Larry Birkhead is in talks to star in a reality TV show documenting his life as the father of late Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn.

Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer and companion Howard Stern has filed a £30m (€43m) libel action against author Rita Cosby and her publisher over a book that claims Stern and Smith’s ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, had a sexual encounter.

Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead plan to sue the author of a new book that claims the two men shared a sexual encounter before Anna Nicole Smith’s death and worked together afterwards to manipulate the media and maximise profits.

Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead has moved into the tragic actress/model's Studio City, California home with the couple's baby daughter Dannielynn.

David Hasselhoff's ex-wife has fired her attorney after losing custody of her teenage daughters last Friday.

Photographer Larry Birkhead has blasted claims he abused late model Anna Nicole Smith.

A Bahamian court cleared the way today for Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend to leave with their baby daughter, rejecting an appeal by the mother of the former reality TV star.

Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead has confirmed he has changed their baby daughter's name - but she'll always be Dannielynn.

A former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith said he does not intend to share custody of their baby daughter, but hopes he can avoid a major court battle over the issue.

DNA tests have revealed that Anna Nicole Smith’s ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead fathered her baby, a Bahamas court has ruled.

DNA analysis has proved that Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend Larry Birkhead is the father of her baby daughter, an expert in genetic evidence said last night.

The identity of the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter could be revealed in Nassau, Bahamas, today in the latest round in the custody dispute pitting the former Playboy Playmate’s ex-boyfriend against her lawyer-turned-partner.

TAKE Hugh Hefner out of the running.

The Bahamas Supreme Court was expected to hold a hearing today in the paternity case of Anna Nicole Smith’s infant daughter.

A BAHAMIAN court yesterday refused to prevent the release of DNA results that could reveal the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter.

The lawyer-turned-partner of Anna Nicole Smith has dropped his bid to halt the use of DNA to prove the paternity of the former Playboy playmate's infant daughter.

Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter is to have a DNA test to find out who her father is, according to a lawyer for the tragic former Playboy model.

An ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith returned to a Bahamas court today to press ahead with his claim for paternity of her baby daughter.

A photographer who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby today urged the late model's partner to undergo paternity tests to end the "circus" surrounding the child.

A lawyer for one of three men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby asked a judge to order the late Playboy model’s partner, Howard Stern, to come to California and provide a DNA sample.

A lawyer for one of the three men claiming paternity of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby today asked a judge to order Howard K Stern to come to California and provide a DNA sample.

Anna Nicole Smith's companion Howard K Stern is reportedly in secret talks with her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead to reach a settlement regarding the custody of her daughter Dannielynn.

With feuding guests, booing spectators and a coffin draped in a pink cover studded with rhinestones spelling out her name, Anna Nicole’s Smith’s funeral was part soap opera, part circus.

Tragic Anna Nicole Smith was finally laid to rest today alongside her son Daniel, but reportedly only after a failed last-ditch attempt by her estranged mother to halt her burial in the Bahamas.

A US Supreme Court justice today denied a motion by Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, to halt the burial of the former Playboy Playmate and take her body to Texas, according to reports tonight.

A white hearse carrying Anna Nicole Smith’s body drove toward a Bahamas church today where the former Playboy Playmate and reality TV star was to be laid to rest in a beaded gown and tiara after a tightly guarded memorial service.

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.

Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith will be buried beside her 20-year-old son tomorrow in a custom-made gown after an extravagant private and "very pink" ceremony bringing together three factions battling for custody of her infant daughter.

Anna Nicole Smith’s friends and family awaited the release of her body today, as they planned for starlet’s funeral in the Bahamas after weeks of legal wrangling over her remains.

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.

A three-judge appeals panel in Florida expressed doubts today about burying Anna Nicole Smith in Texas, as her mother wants, but also questioned how the advocate in charge of funeral plans knew the Playboy model intended to be laid to rest in the Bahamas.

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

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.

Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother today asked a Florida appeals court to overturn a judge’s decision over who controls where the starlet should be buried.

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.

A US judge last night expressed doubt that he had jurisdiction to get involved in the paternity dispute over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter, a day after the starlet’s remains were ordered to be buried in the Bahamas next to those of her son.

CRYING as he announced his ruling, a judge said yesterday he hopes Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter.

ANNA Nicole Smith’s ex-boyfriend testified yesterday that he tried to curb the former centrefold’s drug use and the judge referred to her long-time companion, Howard K Stern, as “maybe an enabler”.

Anna Nicole Smith’s estranged mother and her ex-boyfriend both testified that the starlet said she wanted to be buried in California, not the plots in the Bahamas or Texas that have been the focus of the fierce week-long legal debate.

A grief-stricken Anna Nicole Smith threw herself over her son’s body last fall as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, “If Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him,” her boyfriend testified at a hearing on where the former centrefold should be laid to rest.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH wanted to be buried in the Bahamas next to her son, her companion said yesterday as he made his court debut in the battle over the former model’s body.

A judge trying to decide where former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith should be buried, tonight backed off his suggestion that he also needed to determine who fathered the her baby daughter.