G. Ben Thompson, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., developer, says he bought the property where Anna Nicole has been staying with her newborn child.
Thompson says he met Anna through neighbors last year, and that he bought the house for just under $1 million as a favor to her. She was then supposed to buy it from him. Now he is saying that she is refusing to do so.
Thompson told People Magazine, "She said it was a gift, I never said that. I don't have that kind of money. I don't want to embarrass her or humiliate Anna," he says. "I just need my money, or collateral, back." Is Anna refuses to leaves he will press forward with a formal eviction.
But there's more..
Now a Bahamian politician, Hubert Ingraham, is questioning whether she's fit to be a resident of the country. He is calling upon the government to look into Smith's legal residency status in the Bahamas.
"Clearly, Anna Nicole Smith is not a fit and proper person to become a permanent resident of the Bahamas..Her general character and reputation don't commend her for such status."
The Bahamian law states that a person owning a house there valued at more than half a million 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.
But Wayne Munroe, a Bahamian lawyer for Smith, told the AP that Smith owns the home: "I've physically seen the document that showed the property being conveyed to her."
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