LA Judge Makes Anna Nicole’s Toddler Her Sole Heir
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A judge in Los Angeles hasruled Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter will inherit the former Playboy model’s estate.
Eighteen-month-old Dannielynn Hope was named sole heir by the judge, who also set up a trust in the child’s name.
Her father, Larry Birkhead, and Smith’s executor, Harry K. Stern, will be co-trustees.
Smith drafted a will in 2001 – five years before the girl was born in the Bahamas- that left her estate to her then-only son, Daniel.
But the will said the assets in Daniel’s trust should be shared equally if she had future children.
Daniel died in 2006, three days after Dannielynn was born.
Smith died last year in Florida of an accidental drug overdose.
Dannielynn could inherit millions of dollars if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the oil fortune of Smith’s late second husband, J. Howard Marshall of Houston.
