Anna Nicole Smith’s mother Virgie Arthur is suing internet gossip site TMZ.com, alleging its bloggers spread lies about her and damaged her chances of landing custody of her granddaughter Dannielynn.

Arthur filed a complaint against TMZ.com and three other celebrity bloggers at a Texas state court on Monday. She is angry about a story TMZ.com published online last April, claiming Arthur had a relationship with her stepbrother.

TMZ have yet to comment on the lawsuit.

Lyndal Harrington, one of accused bloggers, said she was shocked at the lawsuit and is finding it “hard to find an attorney to stand up for (her) First Amendment rights”.

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A jury in the Bahamas investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel has ruled it was caused by an accidental drug overdose, recommending no criminal charges be filed.

This verdict is huge because of what the jury didn’t say — that Howard K was responsible for the death.

The jury unanimously concluded Daniel died from “non-dependent drug use” — meaning he wasn’t addicted to what killed him.

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Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel stole some of her Methadone months before his death, Larry Birkhead testified at an inquest into the boy’s death in the Bahamas today.

Birkhead said he reviewed surveillance tapes after some of Anna Nicole’s Methadone went missing in April 2006. Footage showed Daniel and his friends stealing it, he testified, according to TMZ.com.

Birkhead claimed he noticed a drastic change in Daniel’s personality between January and May 2006. On one occasion, Birkhead testified, Daniel threw a television set through a window.

He also claimed that Daniel was hospitalized for taking too much Valium in July 2006.

Daniel died at the age of 20 in September 2006 from an accidental overdose of Methadone and the anti-depressants Zoloft and Lexapro.

Anna Nicole died of an accidental overdose about five months later.

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Just over a year since Anna Nicole Smith’s death, her 18-month-old daughter Dannielynn has been declared the sole heir to the former model’s estate, a Los Angeles judge has decided.

The toddler could conceivably inherit millions from the fortune of Smith’s late husband, oil man J. Howard Marshall, whose estate is still tied up in litigation in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Meanwhile, the judge has established a trust in Dannielynn’s name with her father (and guardian) Larry Birkhead acting as co-trustee with Smith’s former companion Howard K. Stern, who, until a paternity test proved otherwise, insisted he was Danielynn’s father.

In court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Oct. 18, 2007, Howard K. Stern, executor of Smith’s estate, sought to clarify the late reality star’s intentions in her July 2001 will, drafted five years before Dannielynn Hope’s September 2006 birth.

“We and Mr. Stern always believed that Anna Nicole never intended to disinherit her daughter,”‘ Stern’s lawyer, Bruce S. Ross, said after Tuesday’s hearing. “I’m pleased to say this chapter in the saga is closed.”

In addition to confirming Dannielynn Hope as Anna Nicole’s sole heir, Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s ruling also establishes a trust on her behalf with Stern and Birkhead as its co-trustees, Ross said.

Tuesday’s ruling was first reported by TMZ.com.

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Nearly a year after Anna Nicole Smith passed away, Larry Birkhead took their baby daughter, Dannielynn, to visit the graves of her mother and brother Daniel in the Bahamas.

In a special, multi-part interview with Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, airing on Wednesday, Feb. 6, Larry speaks out on why he decided to take 17-month-old Dannielynn to visit the grave. “It’s tough. Even though she doesn’t understand, it was important for us to come. One day I can tell her that we went to visit her mom.”

The graves of both Anna Nicole and her son Daniel remain unmarked, said Birkhead, because their headstones are still being finalized. “A rough draft came back with a sketch of a picture I didn’t care for. I could just hear her hitting me over the head saying, ‘Why did you let that picture go down!?’” Birkhead reveals that the design of the headstone will be “so grand and big. It’s going to encompass Daniel’s stone too.”

Larry admits to ET and The Insider that he doesn’t like that Anna Nicole and her son are buried in the Bahamas. “I know that Daniel didn’t want to be here and I know that his mother was only here because of what was going on between us with the paternity question. To me it feels really odd.” He is leaving the decision on whether to move the graves to Dannielynn, however. “I’m going to leave the decision to Dannielynn when she’s older. It would probably be very hard, if not impossible to take both of them and I definitely don’t want to separate them.”

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Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur is doing the lowest thing she could possibly do: try to profit from her grandson’s tragic death. Apparently, she was sending emails to Entertainment Tonight, offering exclusive rights to her private memorial for Daniel after his death in 2006.

The emails said, “She’ll go to the Bahamas if you want…She would like to visit the grave, and it would make pretty emotive pix of her doing so.”

Source say that Virgie started hustling right after Daniel died. She started by hawking exclusive access to her own memorial in Mexia for Daniel. She was said to have been hunting media deals within days of her grandson’s death. She probably didn’t even wait for his body to get cold.

That’s just sickening. She should be ashamed of herself.

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Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel, died of a massive methadone overdose, and it was intentional, a court heard.

An expert said in the inquest to his death that he had ingested so much of the painkiller, that it could not have been through “recreational use”. The court was also told that it wasn’t necessarily suicide.

He was found to have taken as many as eight tablets that could have been dissolved in a liquid that could’ve camouflaged their taste.

The inquest was also told Howard K Stern appeared to have flushed away two white tablets that fell out of Daniel’s clothing after the death.