CA Legal Expert Says Despite Legal Wrangling, Result Is Appropriate LOS ANGELES, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Supreme Court denied Howard K.

The lawyer-turned-partner of Anna Nicole Smith dropped his bid Monday to halt the use of DNA to prove the paternity of the former Playboy playmate's infant daughter when it appeared a Bahamas court was going to reject his appeal. An attorney for Howard K.

The weeks after Anna Nicole Smith's death were filled with public courtroom drama and private whispers about what might have killed the former Playboy Playmate. On Monday, the county medical examiner planned to reveal the truth.

Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

By JESSICA ROBERTS NASSAU, Bahamas - A man who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn daughter has filed a lawsuit demanding the reality TV star and baby girl return to California for paternity testing, his lawyer said Tuesday.