Anna Nicole: Funeral

As Anna Nicole's casket was brought into the Mt Horeb Baptist Church, it was a very powerful and solemn moment , reported MSNBC's Rita Cosby, soon after leaving the church.

Vergie Arthur gave a very personal speech about how much she loved Anna.

Larry Birkhead stood up and said "I know she was very special to everyone in this room" and then told some funny stories about Anna Nicole and ended by saying "Goodnight Sweet Anna baby", and then broke down and wept.

Howard K Stern, also spoke about Anna's rags to riches life and then turned on Vergie Arthur, by saying that testimony last week in the hearing was all lies, and that he knew the truth. After his speech, Howard K Stern's supporters got up and clapped.

We can't get over that. Clapped Howard K Stern at a funeral!! This could have been grandstanding for the television cameras that were present in the church. It has been rumored that Howard K Stern has made a deal with Entertainment Tonight for the exclusive rights to the funeral. Other speculation is that Richard Milstein was having it filmed for Dannielynn. We're going with the Stern rumor.

The funeral procession is now on the way to the graveside, where Anna Nicole will be buried with an urn containing half the ashes of her late husband, J Howard Marshall.

Ann Nicole's Red Carpet Arrival

Here a Daddy, There a Daddy, Everywhere a Daddy Daddy

Ok kids, math time! By my count, and it is getting difficult, at the end of the day yesterday, we had 3 potential daddy's for Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month old daughter, Dannielyn.
First, we have her sort-of husband-by-commitment-ceremony-but-not-legal-in-the-U.S.-husband, Howard K. Stern. Then there is the ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead. Stern and Birkhead are in a big spitting contest over DNA and such. And then there was my favorite contender, Frederic Prince Von Anhalt, better known as Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband. But then today, just when you thought it was safe to put down your calculator, we have yet another potential daddy - it's none other than Anna Nicole's dead billionaire husband, J. Howard Marshall! Yup. I know! The New York Daily News is reporting that Anna Nicole's half-sister Donna Hogan has written a manuscript called "Train Wreck" (which is just not nice) claiming that Smith froze the sperm of 90-year-old Marshall and may have used it to become pregnant. It is her inheritance from Marshall that seems to be the real reason all these baby daddy's are swarming around.

"I wouldn't be shocked at all if it's J. Howard's. She saved his sperm after all and that maybe her trump card in her fight to get the old man's estate."

The book goes on to claim that Anna Nicole hinted to family that she had frozen sperm and would have Marshall's child. When discussing the paternity fight, Hogan says,

"That's my sister for you. That bitch probably doesn't even know who the father is. Soon she'll probably say it's J. Howards."

I'm not sure how many more men are going to come forward, but I have a suspicion there will be more.