Anna Nicole Smith will be remembered Friday in the Bahamas in a service befitting her flamboyant life. “It will be a very beautiful Anna Nicole send-off,” Patrik Simpson, a friend of Smith who is helping to organize the memorial, told the Associated Press on Wednesday. “Of course it will be over the top because it’s Anna Nicole.”About 300 guests will attend the service at a church filled with pink flowers ? her favorite color ? and a well-known but as-yet undisclosed singer will perform, Simpson said. Simpson’s partner, Pol Atteu, who designed more than a dozen dresses for Smith, created the custom gown in which she will be buried in a “very elegant” casket, Simpson added.
Simpson, a Beverly Hills-based model talent scout, said the three parties who had battled over custody of Smith’s body ? Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead and her mother, Virgie Arthur ? each had to submit a guest list of up to 100 people. Only about 30 people will attend the more private burial at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, he said.
