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May 14, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Larry Birkhead, partner of Anna Nicole Smith and the father of her daughter, Dannielynn, is going to vend some of the ex-model’s memorabilia at a forthcoming auction for a charitable trust and also for the sake of happiness in his daughter’s future.

Birkhead is a photographer, who turned out to be a critical personality in the media spectacle that enveloped Smith’s heartbreaking demise in 2007. He has mentioned that he doesn’t require the cash. Nonetheless, his daughter of 3 years does have diverse requirements such as fail-safe protection and private schools.

He articulated to Reuters that he had to choose between clinging on to Anna Nicole’s possessions and the stabilization of Dannielynn’s future.

Birkhead has divulged that he had used up the preceding three or four months covered in containers. He had also immersed himself in documents pertaining to Anna Nicole. He had ensured the cataloging of Smith’s assets. He has generated heaps of items of Smith to be vended, and loads of items of hers are to be retained for Dannielynn as souvenirs of her celebrated mother.

The auction is going to be managed by Julien’s Auctions on June 26 in Las Vegas. Up for submission at the auction are massively crucial items such as a 1992 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster and a number of bronze statues. These were bequeathed to Smith during her matrimony to oil mogul, J. Howard Marshall.

Also placed on the auction block will be Smith’s furnishings, as was witnessed on her previous reality series, ‘The Anna Nicole Show’, on E! network.

Nicole Smith’s Marilyn Monroe memorabilia that consists of objects such as a Marilyn cookie jar and countless gowns that Smith sported at red carpet happenings will also be obtainable for acquisition at the auction. Numberless paintings executed by Smith will also be accessible for procurement.

Birkhead has stated that these paintings will reflect another facet of the personality of Anna Nicole. The audience will get to see her homely side. Her paintings will indicate that she was a down-to-earth female after all.

Even a dog divan and bowls owned by her diminutive poodle, Sugar Pie, will be up for vending. Also, the attire sported by Smith in a PETA advertisement will receive income for the animal rights organization she assisted.

With the exclusion of the PETA gown, sales from the objects will be counted and a flat payment will voyage to the Anna Nicole and Daniel Wayne Smith Foundation.

The foundation, the mission of which is to support disadvantaged kids, was established by Smith subsequent to her son Daniel’s bereavement due to an inadvertent drug overdose at age 20. His bereavement took place days after Dannielynn’s birth. The rest of the cash will go to a trust for Dannielynn.

Smith, a previous Playboy model and TV superstar, breathed her last breath in February 2007 in Florida owing to an unintentional drug overdose.