BEIJING March 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Her coffin was covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket and Anna Nicole Smith was dressed in a designer gown as she was buried Friday in the Bahamas next to her son in an extravagant funeral.

    The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star was mourned by her mother Virgie Arthur, former boyfriend Larry Birkhead and companion Howard K. Stern.

    Although an organizer said about 300 had been invited, fewer than 100 guests were at the service, including an "Entertainment Tonight" camera crew, and rock guitarist Slash, formerly of Guns N' Roses. Country singer Joe Nichols performed two songs, guests said.

    Arthur, Birkhead and Stern took turns eulogizing the 39-year-old Smith, who died last month in a Florida hotel.

    "It was pretty tough. The funeral itself was a mixture of emotions, there was a lot of crying and laughing," Birkhead, wearing a pink tie, told MSNBC after the service.

    He also referred to comments Stern reportedly made at the service about the legal fight over custody of Smith's daughter.

    "We were all given equal amount of time and that's how he chose to spend his time. I wouldn't have used my time that way. ... It doesn't make anything better," Birkhead said.

    Smith was later buried next to her 20-year-old son, Daniel, who died in September of an apparent drug overdose while visiting Smith in the hospital after she gave birth. "Entertainment Tonight" said she was buried with an urn containing some of the ashes of her late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

    Onlookers, a mixture of Bahamians and tourists, spontaneously broke into the hymn "When Peace Like a River" as the white hearse and the rest of the funeral cortege reached the cemetery.

    Some in the crowd booed Smith's mother when she arrived, though she had been cheered earlier by the crowd outside the memorial service.

    (Agencies)