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Fight over Smith’s baby
Smith’s infant daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was not with her when she died Thursday in Florida. Bahamian officials would not confirm if the child was being cared for in the island chain.

Smith was discovered by one of her employees in her bed with the bed sheet covering at least part of her face, Cosby reported on Sunday. Sources said Smith was found naked and had a small amount of vomit on her when she was found.

Attorney Godfrey Pinder, who represents G. Ben Thompson, a former boyfriend of Smith’s who was embroiled in a court fight with her over the ownership of the waterfront mansion where she had been living in Nassau, Bahamas, said Saturday her death means her claim to the mansion was no longer legitimate.

“We changed the locks and have put a chain on the gate,” Pinder told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview. “We have physical control of the house.”

But later in the day, the locks were changed again, and an attorney for Smith, Wayne Munroe, said he had retaken control of the disputed estate. He also told reporters he had filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment and other personal effects allegedly taken from the home.

Smith’s most recent companion, attorney Howard K. Stern, and Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend, have both claimed to be Dannielynn’s father.

In addition, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, stepped forward Friday to claim he had had an affair with Smith and may be the baby’s father.

And the Daily News reported Saturday that a manuscript it obtained by Smith’s half-sister, Donna Hogan, says Smith froze the sperm of her 90-year-old oilman husband, J. Howard Marshall, before his death and may have used it to become pregnant.

Since Marshall’s death in 1995, Smith had been waging a court battle at her death over his estate. A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million, but that was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court.