state.
Smith's longtime companion, Howard Stern, is fighting for the island chain, where he died from apparent drug-related causes last year.
The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.
She had been million) fortune since his death in 1995.
On the second day of testimony in Florida, Circuit Judge Larry be in danger.
"When you walked into the court, you hope to get everything," Seidlin said.
"We will try to fashion a remedy where not everyone gets everything they want."
Smith died on February 8 at age 39. Her cause of death is under investigation.
Without written proof of Smith's wishes, Seidlin was forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what she wanted.
US is who fathered Smith's five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars. Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate, but a photographer who once dated Smith says the girl is his.
Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, testified that although she had not seen her daughter since 1996, they spoke on the phone more frequently. She cried as she spoke about her relationship with Smith and her 20-year-old grandson's death.
always obsessed with her own death and expected to die young, just like her hero, Marilyn Monroe, who was 36 when she died in 1962.
"You can't make me believe that. She was too full of life. She loved life," she said.
Yesterday, Arthur had testified that drugs soured her relationship with her daughter. Arthur said the two talked only Arthur's lawyer, John O'Quinn, said on CBS television's The Early Show today that Stern caused Smith's drug problems, and that death. He said a grief-stricken Smith threw herself over his body as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, "If Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him".
Smith expressed hatred for her estranged mother.
resident of the Bahamas in the Bahamas," he told CBS.
"This whole case is based on fraud, fraud, fraud perpetrated by Anna," he said.
wife and had celebrated a commitment ceremony, though it was not legal. Stern said they had planned to legally wed this week. He conceded, however, that Smith had other lovers.
would waive his fee as the executor of her will. "I do not intend to get one penny," Stern said.
jurisdiction.
father, Larry Birkhead, sought to discredit Stern. Outside a Los true.
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