Anna Nicole Smith’s 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn Hope is now in the care of her companion Howard K. Stern’s mother and sister in the Bahamas, PEOPLE has learned. Meanwhile, Stern, who is listed on Dannielynn’s birth certificate as her father, is in Florida, where police earlier Friday said that there was no evidence that a crime had occurred in Smith’s death. "Of course he wants to be with her," says Smith lawyer Ron Rale of Stern and Dannielynn, "but I don’t know exactly when he will get there." Also in the Bahamas Friday: Anna Nicole’s mother, Virgie Arthur, who was spotted at police headquarters in Nassau, TV’s Extra reported. (Earlier Friday, Arthur told ABC’s Good Morning America that she blamed drugs for her daughter’s death.) Arthur went to the Bahamas to locate Dannielynn because she "feared for her granddaughter’s safety," the Nassau Guardian newspaper reported. Arthur went to the Ministry of Social Services to seek help in gaining protective custody of the child, but they were unable to assist her and she left in tears after a 45-minute meeting, the Guardian reports. Arthur ultimately ended up at police headquarters and met briefly with Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police. "I don’t know what her expectations were, but I had to advise her to seek legal counsel to find out what course of action she can take," Ferguson told the Associated Press. (Ferguson said Arthur was traveling by limousine and was trailed by camera crews.) Dannielynn was not with her mother, Anna Nicole Smith, when Smith died Thursday in Florida. Sources had said was in the Bahamas, where she was born, in the care of the mother of Shane Gibson, a high-ranking Bahamian official and close friend of Smith’s.
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I don’t know the law, but sadly I think his family has the right to be with her because Howard K Stern is listed as her father on the birth certificate. I just still don’t understand how a mother who just lost the son that she loved 5 months ago would leave her 5 month old baby behind. You would think she would never leave her out of her site? But then again what has been normal about this whole thing in the first place?
