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.

In a ceremony punctuated by screams and cries, reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith attended the funeral of her son in the Bahamas, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting her in the hospital where she had given birth to a daughter.