HOLLYWOOD - 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.
Virgie Arthur challenged a ruling to bury Smith in Nassau, and her appeal was heard yesterday morning.
But judges involved in the case at Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals overruled Arthur's bid for custody of her daughter's remains late yesterday, re-awarding the corpse to attorney Richard Milstein, the legally appointed guardian to Anna Nicole's baby daughter Dannielynn.
Milstein, Smith's companion Howard K. Stern and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead had already agreed to bury the late model on the Bahamas, her adopted home.
The funeral will now take place, as planned, on Friday morning.
Smith's remains, which have been embalmed in Florida--where she died three weeks ago--will be transported to Nassau for the burial.
Arthur challenged the Bahamian burial plans because she wanted to take her daughter's body back to her native Texas and bury her there.
In making their decision, the Florida judges, Barry Stone, Mark Polen and George Shahood, told Arthur that her daughter's wishes to be buried in the Bahamas were a major factor.
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