NASSAU, Bahamas -- The boyfriend of former Playboy playmate and model Anna Nicole Smith, who died Thursday after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., says he will do everything in his power to try and prevent her mother from seeing Smith's 5-month-old daughter.
A representative for Howard K. Stern scrambled on Monday to control dissemination of items he said were stolen from Smith's mansion in the Bahamas over the weekend before he returned to Florida, including images from a computer taken from the house.
Ron Rale, Stern's spokesman, said in a statement Monday that anyone who disseminates any of the items without his prior written consent "will be held liable to the fullest extent of the law." Rale said police have recovered all of the missing property.
Two photographs published on the front page of a Nassau newspaper show Smith and Bahamas Immigration Minister Shane Gibson looking into each other's eyes with their faces only a couple inches apart while lying on a bed decorated with pink flowers and a white ribbon. The newspaper said the photographs were taken in Smith's bedroom and that it obtained the pictures Sunday from an unidentified source.
Gibson has come under criticism from the political opposition for giving Smith special treatment in granting her residency in the Bahamas last year.
All of Smith's personal items, including the birth certificate of her daughter, whose paternity is being disputed by three men, had been taken from the house, Rale said.
Stern reclaimed the Bahamas mansion during the weekend, along with Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern. They had lived in the gated waterfront estate before Smith died.
Stern said he is trying to keep Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, who traveled from the United States and went to the gates of the mansion on Sunday, from seeing Dannielynn.
"She just despised that woman," Stern told "Entertainment Tonight." "As long as I have one breath left in my body, that woman will not see Dannielynn."
Arthur told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she fears for Dannielynn's safety, pointing out that Stern had been present when Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, died under mysterious circumstances in a Bahamas hospital room while visiting his mother days after Dannielynn was born.
A coroner hired by Smith's family said Daniel died in September from a lethal combination of drugs, including methadone. An inquest into his death is scheduled to begin March 27.
"I do have a problem with her being with Howard Stern," Arthur said. "I had a daughter and I had a grandson. He was there when both of them died. Now I only have a granddaughter left, and now he has her, and I'm afraid for her."
Stern is listed on a birth certificate as Dannielynn's father. But two other men have challenged the claim.
A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit claiming he is the father. Arthur backs his claim.
Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, on Friday announced that he had a decade-long affair with Smith and he may be the father.
The New York Daily News has reported that a manuscript it obtained said Smith froze the sperm of her late 90-year-old husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.
More tests will be needed to determine the cause of Anna Nicole Smith's death, but there was no evidence of trauma, illegal drugs, or pills or tablets in the model's stomach, said Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief medical examiner for Broward County.
Prescription drugs were found in her hotel room, said Perper.
The events of the afternoon leading up to Smith's death, according to Seminole police, were that a private nurse employed by Smith placed a call to the hotel operator and the operator dialed 911 at 1:38 p.m.
Smith's bodyguard was not in the room at the time of the star's collapse, but apparently came into the sixth-floor hotel room and performed CPR at 1:45 p.m. When paramedics arrived, she was unresponsive and she was rushed to nearby Memorial Regional Hospital just after 2 p.m.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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