Anna Nicole Smith still in limbo

Anna Nicole Smith's famous and now decomposing body is still above ground more than two weeks after her death, thanks to the latest legal maneuver by her mother, Virgie Arthur. Arthur opposed last week's decision to put Smith's corpse and funeral details in the hands of a court-appointed attorney, so Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal is reviewing the case today (February 28th). Arthur says Florida judge Larry Seidlin didn't have jurisdiction to rule on the case.

Arthur wants Smith buried in Texas, and Smith's partner, Howard K. Stern, wants her in the Bahamas with her deceased son Daniel.

In other related news...

Access Hollywood's reporting that the Playboy centerfold may have had lupus because she was taking Topamax, Dilaudid, and Methadone at the time of her death -- medications that could have been used as painkillers for complications from the disease. Lupus is a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks normal tissue.

A coroner is still trying to determine the official cause of Smith's death.

Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead have been secretly meeting to figure out custody of baby Dannielynn. The infant stands to inherit billions of dollars from her mother's estate and Stern is reportedly willing to give up custody if he gets a piece of that fortune.

Virgie Arthur wept Tuesday after seeing her granddaughter for the first time. Arthur, who had received permission for a brief visit just hours earlier, could be seen crying and hugging a woman in the back seat of a SUV after the visit.

Larry Birkhead met the tot on Monday (February 26th).
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