Actor, singer and longtime Hawai'i resident Jim Nabors will be one of nine honorees March 12 when the Hawaii Music Awards bestows its 2008 Legacy Actor Awards in arts and culture.

Nabors, known for his TV character Gomer Pyle, has been a popular Waikiki and Las Vegas singer, and hosted a weekly "Jim Nabors Hour" on prime-time TV. In 1991, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and for 10 years he headlined a Christmas revue at the Hawai'i Theatre.

The Legacy event, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, will be followed March 15 by the Hawaii Music Awards presentations. Information: www.hawaiimusicawards.com.

— Wayne Harada, Advertiser entertainment writer

ANNA NICOLE'S ESTATE SETTLED

LOS ANGELES — Anna Nicole Smith's daughter will inherit her late mother's estate.

A Los Angeles judge yesterday made 18-month-old Dannielynn Hope the sole heir, and set up a trust in the girl's name.

Her father, Larry Birkhead, and Smith's executor, Howard K. Stern, will be co-trustees.

The judge ruled on a petition filed by Stern to clarify the will Smith drafted in 2001 — five years before the child was born. It left her estate to her son, Daniel, but said the assets should be shared equally if she had future children. Daniel died three days after Dannielynn was born.

Dannielynn could inherit millions if the estate wins an ongoing court fight over the will of Smith's wealthy second husband, J. Howard Marshall, leaving much of his fortune to the model.

PARIS HILTON WILL GUEST ON 'EARL'

NEW YORK — NBC is pumping up the return of "My Name is Earl" with a guest shot by Paris Hilton.

Hilton appears as herself in a dream sequence. Earl has been knocked unconscious and various things from his life and imagination are bleeding into his fevered mind.

Her appearance will come in the one-hour episode April 3 that is the first new material following the writers' strike, NBC said.

Hilton has just finished work on the movie "Repo: The Genetic Opera."

MUSIC MOGUL TO PLEAD GUILTY

ORLANDO, Fla. — The creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync has agreed to plead guilty to charges he laundered money and made false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.

Lou Pearlman will appear in court tomorrow, according to a plea agreement released yesterday, and prosecutors plan to seek a prison sentence. They accuse Pearlman of lying to raise millions of dollars for fake companies. Investors' losses are estimated at more than $300 million.