Howard K Stern remained in seclusion all last week in the couple's mansion in the Bahamas, called Horizons, "in shock, " according to friends, following Smith's death on 8 February. He missed the first three days of hearings tackling the tangle of probate problems the model left behind.

In death, as in life, the affairs of Smith are a mess.

On Friday, Judge Larry Seidlin released a 2001 will which named Stern executor but left everything to Smith's son, Daniel, and no one else.

But Daniel died at the age of 20, just days after Smith gave birth to a daughter, Dannielynn, last September.

While Stern is listed as the father on the girl's birth certificate, another man, photographer Larry Birkhead, is