http://www.miamiherald.com/358/story/143814.html

Posted on Mon, Jun. 18, 2007

No Hard Rock shrine for Anna Nicole

The casino hotel room where Anna Nicole Smith died in February is no more.

The luxury $800-a-day suite at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near
Hollywood -- room 607 -- has been completely gutted, remodeled, refurnished
-- and renumbered.

There is no room 607 anymore, said Gary Bitner, spokesman for the Seminole
Tribe of Florida.

"We did not want that room to become a shrine."

Bitner refused to confirm or deny that a Seminole shaman performed a
spiritual cleansing ceremony on the room before and after the renovation
work, which was completed two months ago.

Meantime, a large envelope containing Smith's X-rays wound up in the trash
room of the Fort Lauderdale condominium that's home to Larry Seidlin, the
weeping judge involved in the custody battle over her body. Since they were
found in March, the X-rays have been kept in the safe of condo association
attorney Gary Poliakoff, who said he would turn them over to the court or
to Krista Barth, attorney for Howard K. Stern, Smith's companion.

No one knows how the X-rays wound up in the trash room of Seidlin's condo.

"There is no evidence that this has anything to do with Larry Seidlin,"
insisted Poliakoff, who received the X-rays from a condo worker.

Seidlin's attorney said Seidlin has no knowledge of the X-rays.

-- ROBERTO SANTIAGO