Prince Frederic von Anhalt, 63, Tuesday planned to join the slew of men seeking to legally claim paternity of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, after the model died suddenly last week.
The husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that he planned to file a paternity claim in Los Angeles court on Tuesday.
“I believe the chances are very good (that I am the father), because she was with me in Los Angeles at the time of the conception,” von Anhalt said in an interview.
He claims to have had a nine-year relationship with the model, who collapsed and died in a Florida hotel room at age 39 on Thursday, and to have met with her “maybe 60, 70 times.”
Her death immediately sparked rumours of drug taking and triggered a legal battle over the custody of her baby daughter, Dannielynn, who inherits the claim to half of the fortune of Smith’s late oil tycoon husband, worth some 1.6 billion dollars. That claim is languishing in the courts.
Smith died just five months after giving birth to Dannielynn and the death two days later of Smith’s son Daniel, 20, who died from a lethal mixture of antidepressants and methadone as he was visiting his mother in hospital.
The baby girl is currently in the custody of Smith’s lawyer Howard K Stern, whom she regarded as the father and as her husband even though they were not legally married. But Smith’s former boyfriend, entertainment photojournalist Larry Birkhead has filed a lawsuit to challenge the paternity.
A California judge on Friday refused to order an emergency DNA test on Smith’s body at the request of Birkhead, but he ordered that the body be preserved until a hearing February 20.
“This was naturally not a planned child, neither by us three or by Nicole,” von Anhalt said. “But it happened and Nicole was very happy about it in the end. Now we must see who the father is.”
If he were to gain custody of the child, he said he would bring her from the Bahamas to the home he shares with Gabor in Bel-Air near Los Angeles.
A Florida medical examiner performed an autopsy on Smith’s body Friday. He found no traces of illegal or prescription drugs, but said that it would take between three and five weeks to establish conclusive results.
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A mixture of painkillers that Anna Nicole Smith was taking to aid her recovery from a breast operation could have helped to cause her death.
Anna Nicole Smith, 39, was found dying at a Florida hotel on Thursday.
It has now emerged that she was taking a selection of different drugs to help her get over two breast operations - an enhancement and a repair procedure - soon after giving birth to her daughter Dannielynn.
According to the Daily Mirror it’s believed that a cocktail of Valium, anti-depressants, painkillers and antibiotics may have combined to kill her when her body was unable to put up any resistance.
Women’s health specialist Dr Sarah Jarvis of the Royal College of GPs said: ‘If a person has surgery when they aren’t fit, and compounds that by taking drugs, it’s very possible they’d have complications.’
Although no large amounts of medication have been found in Anna Nicole’s stomach or blood stream, experts say it could take weeks to establish if drugs aided her death.
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