Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith said in a 2001 will that her estate should be given to her longtime companion to hold in trust for her son, who has died, according to a copy released today.
The document said Howard K. Stern should hold the former Playboy Playmate's estate should be held in trust for her son, Daniel, who died last year, three days after Smith gave birth to a daughter.
"I have intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted," Smith said in the will.
Stern and two other men claim to have fathered Smith's daughter, Dannielynn.
The will did not say where Smith wanted to be buried, but named Stern as her executor.
Stephen Tunstall, the attorney for Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, called the document a "phantom will," saying it is not valid because it was not filed in court.
The will was released hours after a judge approved the embalming of Smith's remains and tried to broker an agreement among the three people fighting over her body.
Lengthy legal fights still loomed over where she will be buried and who will get custody of the daughter. A hearing over Smith's final resting place was in its third day when it stopped around noon Friday for the holiday weekend. The hearing was to resume Tuesday.
Stern is trying to get control of Smith's remains, as is Arthur. Photographer Larry Birkhead hopes Smith's DNA will help prove he fathered Dannielynn. Stern is listed as the father on the girl's birth certificate.
AP