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Anna Nicole Smith estate left to dead son

17/02/2007

The release of Anna Nicole Smith's 2001 will has revealed that only one heir was named – her dead son.

Signed under her real name of Vicky Lynn Marshall, the late Playboy model left her entire estate to her son Daniel who died last September aged 20, three days after the birth of her daughter Dannielynn.

Smith was found to be "unresponsive" in her Florida hotel room on February 8th this year and was later pronounced dead in hospital. It is still unknown how the 39-year-old died.

Paternity of her baby daughter is also much disputed with four potential fathers. Although the former actress' partner and lawyer Howard Stern is named as the father on the birth certificate, her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead and her bodyguard Alexander Denk also say they could be the baby's father.

And in a strange turn of events, the ninth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, 59-year-old Prince Frederick von Anhalt, has told Associated Press news agency he thinks he could also be the father of Dannielynn.

"I have intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted," the will reads.

However the will does not detail how much Smith's estate is worth. The voluptuous blonde spent many years battling for a share in her late husband's estate since his death in 1995. She married the 89-year-old oil tycoon J Howard Marshall when she was only 26.

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