Yes, it is as messed up as the title sounds. Larry Birkhead, the man once known as Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend and the father of her little girl spent some serious money on Playboy memorabilia for Dannielynn to remember her late mother by.

Larry Birkhead, the former boyfriend of Playboy model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith, spent nearly $3,000 at a celebrity auction Saturday in Las Vegas so that his daughter with the late Smith could have something of her mother’s: lingerie.

It wasn’t just any old lingerie apparently, but lingerie worn by the statuesque blonde in a Playboy shoot. Birkhead, 35, said he wants his 1-year-old daughter with Smith, Dannielynn, to have something to remember her mom by.

The photographer told the Associated Press that there is “a lot of history” he has “to put together” for his little girl about Smith, and Playboy “was such a big part of Anna’s career,” that he found it necessary to acquire the auctioned lingerie.

Those interested in collecting celebrity memorabilia at the auction, run by Julien’s Auctions and held at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, had to relinquish owning a pink bustier and a white negligee bought by Birkhead for $1,800 and $1,000 respectively.

Birkhead emphasized to the AP that he will wait for Dannielynn to grow older before telling her more of her mother’s life story. “It’s not going to be in any bedtime stories anytime soon,” he said.

Following Smith’s shocking death from an overdose of prescription drugs in February 2007, at the age of 39, Birkhead, whom DNA tests showed to be the baby’s father, was awarded custody of Dannielynn.

In early March, Dannielynn was named sole heir of her late mother’s estate. Birkhead and Howard K. Stern, former lawyer and boyfriend of Smith’s, for a while considered to be the little girl’s father, were named co-trustees.

Little Dannielynn could inherit millions should the decade-long legal battle between Smith and her late husband’s estate end favorably for her. Smith was 26 when she married billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994. He died little over a year later, leaving most of his fortune to his widow. His family has never accepted the will.