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Larry Birkhead Buys House in Kentucky Hometown | Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, Larry Birkhead

Larry Birkhead Buys House in Kentucky Hometown

Originally posted 06/07/2008 01:00PM

Larry Birkhead has purchased a 10,000-sq.-ft., six-bedroom house in his hometown of Louisville, Ky., for himself and 21-month-old daughter Dannielynn, he tells PEOPLE.

Birkhead, 35, says the house, which has 40-ft. ceilings and is modeled after a Sicilian church, was never completed, needs a lot of work, and right now "looks like a haunted house," but he loves it.

"When I walked in, I said to myself, 'This is our home!'" says Birkhead.

He adds he might sell the Los Angeles house where he's surrounded by memories of its former occupants – Dannielynn's mother, Anna Nicole Smith, and half-brother Daniel, who both died from drug-related complications.

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Jury Rules: Daniel Smith Died of an Overdose | Anna Nicole Smith

Jury Rules: Daniel Smith Died of an Overdose

Originally posted 03/31/2008 01:20PM

Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died from an accidental drug overdose, according to the findings of a Bahamas jury – which recommends no criminal charges be filed.

The seven panelists deliberated less than two hours before returning the verdict on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

Daniel died Sept. 10, 2006, shortly after he arrived in the Bahamas to meet his new baby half-sister, Dannielynn, who was born in a Nassau hospital.

An autopsy whose results were announced in December determined that Daniel died as a result of a lethal combination of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro.
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Dannielynn Officially Named Anna Nicole's Sole Heir

UpdatePosted 03/04/2008 04:05PM

Dannielynn Officially Named Anna Nicole Smith's Sole Heir

Originally posted 03/04/2008 03:45PM

A petition to have Anna Nicole Smith's 18-month-old daughter Dannielynnn declared the sole heir to her estate was approved Tuesday by a Los Angeles judge.

In court papers filed in Superior Court Oct. 18, 2007, Howard K. Stern, the executor of Smith's estate, sought to clarify Smith's intentions in her July 2001 will, drafted five years before Dannielynn Hope's September 2006 birth. (Smith died in February 2007.)

"We and Mr. Stern always believed that Anna Nicole never intended to disinherit her daughter,"' Stern's lawyer, Bruce S. Ross, said after Tuesday's hearing. "I'm pleased to say this chapter in the saga is closed."

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Larry Birkhead Leaves Tribute to Anna Nicole Smith | Larry Birkhead

Larry Birkhead Leaves Tribute to Anna Nicole Smith

Originally posted 02/08/2008 11:15AM

Although Larry Birkhead, former lover of Anna Nicole Smith, has not updated his Web site since November – when Smith would have turned 40 – the home page underwent a moving makeover on Friday, the first anniversary of her death:

"Anna Nicole Smith I LOVE YOU AND HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF OUR BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL. PLEASE WATCH OVER US AND GUIDE US ON OUR JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE. WE MISS YOU.

2-8-07

LOVE,

LARRY AND DANNIELYNN"

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Anna Nicole's Death: One-Year Anniversary | Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole's Death: One-Year Anniversary

Originally posted 02/08/2008 08:10AM

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the discovery of Anna Nicole Smith's lifeless body in a Florida hotel room – the sorrowful finish to a real-life soap opera that managed to both captivate and shock those who followed it.

Nowhere is Smith's passing more profoundly felt than in the late centerfold and reality-star's Los Angeles home, now occupied by Anna Nicole's 17-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, and the baby's father, Larry Birkhead.

"There's pictures everywhere in the house of her mom and of Daniel. She knows," Birkhead recently told PEOPLE. (Daniel, Smith's 19-year-old son, died only days after Dannielynn was born.)

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Pathologist: Drug Cocktail Killed Anna Nicole's Son | Anna Nicole Smith

Pathologist: Drug Cocktail Killed Anna Nicole's Son

Originally posted 12/11/2007 09:15AM

Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died as a result of a lethal combination of methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro, pathologist Dr. Govinda Raju said Monday.

According to Raju, who performed the official autopsy on Smith, this particular drug cocktail is capable of becoming fatal in about five hours. Raju confirmed the findings of a doctor who privately examined the cadaver of the reality star's son in the Bahamas on Sept. 10, 2006, the very day Daniel died.

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Inquest Finally Begins in Death of Anna Nicole's Son | Anna Nicole Smith

Inquest Finally Begins in Death of Anna Nicole's Son

Originally posted 11/19/2007 05:30PM

The long-delayed inquest into the mysterious death of Anna Nicole Smith's son finally began Monday in the Bahamas.

Howard K. Stern, former lawyer and confidante to Anna Nicole, made a brief appearance on the stand.

"Howard identified the body and how close he was to it," Nassau attorney Godfrey Pro Pinder, tells PEOPLE. Stern likely will be called to provide more in-depth testimony later, says Pinder, who represents another witness in the case.

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Officials Search Home of Anna Nicole's Psychiatrist | Anna Nicole Smith

UpdatePosted 10/12/2007 02:15PM

Officials Search Home of Anna Nicole's Psychiatrist

Originally posted 10/12/2007 12:30PM

Agents from the California Department of Justice on Friday raided the Studio City home of Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, the psychiatrist who was treating Anna Nicole Smith before her death.

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Dannielynn Celebrates Her 1st Birthday | Larry Birkhead

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Dannielynn Celebrates Her 1st Birthday

Originally posted 09/09/2007 04:00PM

Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn celebrated her 1st birthday on Saturday with a lavish party hosted by dad Larry Birkhead at the home of Louisville, Ky., socialite Tricia Barnstable Brown.

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Larry Birkhead Talks About Life with Dannielynn | Larry Birkhead

Larry Birkhead Talks About Life with Dannielynn

Originally posted 06/20/2007 08:15AM

On Tuesday, a court named Larry Birkhead guardian of Dannielynn, his daughter with the late Anna Nicole Smith – but he has for months been building a life for himself and the baby.

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