All things Anna Nicole Smith will roll on today. Just a day after her death, her autopsy is scheduled to begin, as well as a hearing to decide if a DNA sample may be taken from her body to determine who fathered her infant child, Dannielynn. The potential father of her child, Larry Birkhead, has a closed-door hearing before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge this morning.

Birkhead’s attorney, Debra Opri, said her DNA experts insist that, to get a good sample, they have to obtain some of Smiths’s DNA within 48 hours of her death. She emphasized that Birkhead did not ask for the hearing and is devastated, having lost “the love of his life and the mother of his child.”

Birkhead, 34, has long contested the claim that 5-month-old Dannielynn was fathered by Smith’s companion, attorney Howard K. Stern, 38.

It is unclear how a DNA sample would be taken from the infant, who, according to Opri, is currently under the care of the mother of the Bahamas’ Immigration Minister, Shane Gibson.

Meanwhile, Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office in Florida, where Smith died, said her cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done today.

No one is certain where Howard K. Stern is at the moment. Anna Nicole’s rep claimed Stern was at the hospital yesterday, but not sure where he is now.

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