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.

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 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.

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.

Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith has the right to rest in “peace and tranquility,” a US judge says, as the row over her burial continues.

A Florida judge today tried to broker an agreement among the three people fighting over Anna Nicole Smith’s remains about procedures for embalming the body of the former Playboy Playmate.

A judge ordered another DNA sample be taken from Anna Nicole Smith’s body as he heard fiery arguments in the fight over the former Playboy Playmate’s remains and custody of her infant daughter.

The bickering over Anna Nicole Smith spiralled into a post-death legal war, with judges on both US coasts issuing rulings and a parade of lawyers fighting for control of the body.