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The body of Anna Nicole Smith will leave for the Bahamas at 5:25 a.m. Friday, according to a press release from the office of attorney Richard Milstein, Dannielynn's court appointed guardian.

A motorcade will arrive in the early morning hours at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office where local police will escort hearse to Miami International Airport. The body will be flown by private plane to the Bahamas for the model's final send off.

Smith's body is due to arrive in the Bahamas at 9 a.m. at Million Air Airport in Nassau. Customs will be cleared for the arrival of the body and the casket will then be transferred to a hearse.

A motorcade will transport Smith's casket to Mount Horeb Baptist Church in Nassau. At 10:10 a.m., Milstein will make a statement to the media at church before the church services begin at 10:30 a.m.


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At 11:30 a.m. the family will leave the church for a private graveside service. Graveside services are expected to begin at Lake View Memorial Gardens at 11:45 a.m. Both church and graveside services will be closed to the public, the press release said.

Smith's body has remained refrigerated at the Broward County medical examiner's office since her Feb. 8 death in a hotel room at age 39.

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