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The spectacle of Anna Nicole Smith's death may one day become the source material for a hit megamusical, peopled with a colorful cast of characters that includes newly materialized long-lost relatives, horny Bahamian immigration ministers, flamboyant entertainment medicine practitioners, nervous diet pill executives, and a massive chorus of potential babydaddies. Right now, however, there's nothing hummable at all about the ugly tug-of-war underway for Smith's estate, a legal nightmare that the court-ordered release of her 2001 will has done little to clarify:

The document said Smith's lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, should be her executor and hold her estate in trust for son Daniel Smith. [...]

[T]he will explicitly leaves out anything for anyone other than the son.

"I have intentionally omitted to provide for my spouse and other heirs, including future spouses and children and other descendants now living and those hereafter born or adopted," Smith said in the will, which was signed under her legal name, Vickie Lynn Marshall.

Smith's mother's lawyer asserts that since it was never filed in court, it was a "phantom will," and is legally unbinding. To further their argument, they argued that the will was further invalidated by the very first line, in which the words, "I, Vickie Lynn Marshall, being of sound mind and body..." were crossed out with a periwinkle Crayola crayon, over which was scrawled, "Well...Close enough!"