Bahamas to US: You can have Anna Nicole back

By Stone Martindale Oct 26, 2006, 23:18 GMT

Model Anna Nicole Smith (R), accompanied by her lawyer Howard K. Stern REUTERS/Chris Kleponis/Files

Anna Nicole Smith recap:  Pregnant with one man's child, while "having a relationship" with a Southern Carolina man who happened to have a home in the Bahamas. 

Nicole Smith moves to Bahamas and births a daughter, and loses a son to a tragic lethal chemical combination.  Likes the house, ditches the "relationship."

Birkhead, alleged father(s) of baby daughter battles over paternity with Howard K. Stern, one father insisting on paternity test, Nicole Smith dodges and refuses to appear in court.  Stern, lawyer/almost husband claims he is real father of baby.

Ex "relationship" man from South Carolina wants his house back, says he never "gave it" to her as she claims.

Now the Bahamian government officials aren't liking what they are reading or seeing regarding the Texas ex stripper.

Enter Vernon Burrows, the immigration director in the Bahamas, who is focused on the $1 million home that Smith's lawyer claimed in an application for residency that she had purchased.

"Of course the only thing that would have qualified her for permanent residence was the home," Burrows told the Associated Press reports, "so if that's no longer the case then of course we would probably ask her to show cause why it should not be revoked."

G. Ben Thompson, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., developer, says he owns the property in New Providence.

Wayne Munroe, a Bahamian lawyer for Smith, told the AP that Smith does own the home: "I've physically seen the document that showed the property being conveyed to her."

Birkhead's lawyer, Debra Opri, announced the allegations, including an accusation that Smith, and her companion Howard K. Stern, committed fraud when they listed Stern as the baby's father on her Bahamian birth certificate.

Opri said she has requested that Smith's baby, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, have her surname changed to "Birkhead" on her birth certificate.

People magazine reports Hubert Ingraham, head of the Bahamas' main opposition Free National Movement, questioned whether Smith is fit to be a resident of the country, where her son died three days after she gave birth to a daughter.

"Clearly, Anna Nicole Smith is not a fit and proper person to become a permanent resident of the Bahamas," Ingraham said of the 38-year-old former Playboy model. "Her general character and reputation don't commend her for such status."

The law in the Bahamas states that a person owning a house there valued at more than $500,000 and having the means to reside without being employed – and being of good character – can be eligible for residency.

"If she doesn't own the house, then she would not have met the policy conditions which the government of the Bahamas has with respect to the grant of permanent residence," Ingraham said of Smith.