The locks at the Bahamas mansion where Anna Nicole Smith had been living were changed for the second time in 24 hours on Saturday as the dispute of who the real owner is heated up between her estate and a U.S. developer who had a brief relationship with her.
Brian Andrews of CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami, reporting from Nassau, said allegations of a break-in and burglary at the "Horizons" estate home were among the local rumors.
Outside the gated mansion in Nassau, Smith's attorney Wayne Munroe told reporters he had retaken possession of the estate and filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment and other personal effects allegedly taken out.
Smith's lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern -- one of three men who claims to be the baby's father,had the locks changed again and on Sunday was once again at the gated waterfront estate.
The baby girl, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was also there, attorney Wayne Munroe told The Associated Press. An AP Television News reporter also saw Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, enter the white house.
Munroe says someone removed Smith's personal items, including a computer, paintings, and photographs.
Munroe confirmed Stern was back in the Bahamas, with the child he fathered with Anna Nicole, Dannielyn and staying at an undiclosed location according to Andrews.
Munroe said the house now belongs to Stern, Smith's companion. "Right now, Howard is very happy to be reunited with Dannielynn but extremely angry that somebody had the gall to break into Anna's residence," Stern's spokesman, Ron Rale, said Sunday by telephone from Los Angeles.
Earlier on Saturday, the attorney for a U.S. developer who also claims ownership of the waterfront mansion, said he had the locks changed on Friday, put a chain on the gate and had taken control of the residence on behalf of his client.
The South Carolina developer, G. Ben Thompson, had a brief relationship with Smith and was embroiled in an ownership dispute with the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate before she died Thursday in Florida.
Smith once claimed Thompson bought her the house as a gift.
Andrews said there's talk in the Bahamian legal community that Stern may try to leave the Bahamas with Dannielyn who is considered a US Citizen because she was born in the Bahamas to an American mother. However, it's unknown if Stern has secured a passport or travel document for the child from the US Embassy in the Bahamas for the baby to be able to travel to the US.
A team of SUV's arrived at the estate Sunday morning along with ten news crews and several still photographers including members of the papparazzi. Stern and his entourage entered the home and removed personal effects, suitcases and a small dog.
Andrews reported that Howard Stern who may have had Smith's baby daughter in tow was in the home Saturday and quickly left Sunday morning after collecting more personal items, only to be followed by members of the papparazzi and several other media crews according to Andrews.
The entourage allegedly including Stern and possibly the Smith's youngest child, arrived at a private section of Nassau International Airport where members of the press were not allowed to pass through. According to Andrews, members of the papparazzi were set-up along a fence facing a jetway where a leer jet believed to be carrying the child and Stern was awaiting take-off.