…yet to be determined. “She always had the edge,” Rev Jesse Jackson said outside the church on Saturday. “You can tell when some kids have what we call a special anointing. Aretha had that when she was 14. Whitney cultivated that and took it to a very high level. “The memories are so powerful, the music will be with us forever. We have a lot to rejoice about. Today we praise, we preach and we appre…
…ail said that if the person owned a dog, and the dog died, they would not come to my funeral home,” Carolyn Whigham said. “I’m worried about my employees, worried about me. I’ve been in business since 1943. This is my name, my character. Honestly, this is my life’s work. We would never do something like this.” Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy and daughter Bobbi Kristina are said to be outraged…
The decision to publish a photograph of dead Whitney Houston in her coffin on National Enquirer cover has been widely criticized as a tasteless move by the sensationalist publication. The source of the picture of Whitney Houston in an open casket is still in question, with the owners of the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark saying that it was nothing to do with them. Whitney Houston ‘s funeral…
…ere’s some precedent for the National Enquirer’s ghoulish glimpse at Whitney Houston’s wake. The tabloid ran similar open casket shots of Elvis Presley after the King of Rock died in 1977. National Enquirer ran similar open casket shots of Elvis Presley after the King of Rock died in 1977 Just as it did with Elvis Presley, the headline loudly proclaims that it is “the last…
…Costner. Whitney Houston was laid to rest at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, on Sunday in a burial service attended by close family and friends. The legendary singer, who died on February 11 at age 48, is buried near her father, John Russell Houston, Jr. …
Thousands of well-wishers witnessed an honor guard of firefighters standing to attention to salute pallbearers carrying Boston Marathon attack victim Krystle Campbell’s casket into church today. The line outside St. Joseph Church on Monday for the 11 a.m. funeral of 29-year-old Krystle Campbell stretched down the block as 23 officers on motorbikes joined the procession. Krystle Campbell was…
…nd fellow boxers had gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday to say goodbye to the slain former world champion fighter, known for his flamboyance in and out of the ring. The brawl broke out after 28-year-old Cynthia Castillo, dressed in a pink T-shirt emblazoned with Hector Camacho’s face, leaned down to kiss his body in the open casket. Cynthia Castillo then walked into an area reserve…
…hich “was always on the lower level under lock and key”. She added that security personnel guarding Whitney Houston’s body, who slept in the building prior to her funeral on February 18, had not been hired by the home. Carolyn Whigham, the owner of Whitney Houston's funeral home has said that she knows who leaked the photo of the singer's body in open casket to the press…
As Whitney Houston’s silver casket was carried out of the New Hope Baptist Church, her unforgettable voice could be heard singing her greatest hit I Will Always Love You, reducing many mourners to tears, as the star made her final journey before being laid to rest. The singer’s mother Cissy Houston followed right behind the casket and had to be supported by two helpers as she tearfully watched he…
…Tina Brown was a mooch: “Hey, I was using and she was paying. It was free.” If Tina Brown did leak the photo, it wouldn’t be the first time. She was also behind the leaked photos in 2006 of Whitney Houston’s bathroom that were sent to The Sun, which showed clearly that the singer had been cooking freebase cocaine – a.k.a., crack – in her bathroom, which is some…
…Whitney had a great time, she looked amazing. Nothing was wrong, it was just DAMN hot in that club.” But who is Raffles van Exel? Raffles van Exel is one of Hollywood’s mysteries. He was first seen in 2005 hanging around the Jackson family during Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial. After Michael Jackson went abroad, Raffles van Exel was often seen with Michael’s father, Joseph Jackson. He t…
The United States Air Force has launched an internal investigation after a disturbing image of 15 soldiers posing with one of them chained up in an open casket with a noose around his neck surfaced online. The picture is dated August 23 and appeared on Facebook in early October, with the caption: “Da Dumpt, Da Dumpt… Sucks 2 Be U” scribbled on the bottom. The image was published in the Air…
After a very public funeral attended by thousands yesterday, Whitney Houston is laid to rest surrounded by just a select few in New Jersey today. Whitney Houston is to be buried in a private ceremony at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield where her father, John Russell Houston Jr., was interred in 2003. The late singer’s silver casket was transported to the cemetery in a gold-painted hearse…
…as kept as a “sex slave” by Osama bin Laden, said he thought Whitney Houston was “the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen” and that he was desperate to marry her. In an autobiography released in 2006, Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof, the former mistress claims Osama bin Laden plotted to have Bobby Brown murdered before wooing Whitney Houston by giving her a mansion he ow…
…is just an invitation to sickos. “It’s ironic that Whitney, who was most famous for The Bodyguard movie when she was alive, has to have bodyguards even in death.” Whitney Houston, who died on February 11 aged 48, is understood to have been buried in a gold lined casket worth upwards of $15,000, and wearing a diamond brooch and earrings. The overwhelming number of fans paying visits to the grave fo…
rning, Bobby Brown showed up for Whitney Houston’s funeral service at Newark’s New Hope Baptist Church with nine people, including his three children from previous relationships, his fiancée and their 2-year-old son. After security guards moved his group twice, Bobby Brown caused a ruckus before the Reverent Jesse Jackson and the Reverent Al Sharpton – both Houston family friends – calmed him down…
Whitney Houston’s family members, including her mother Cissy and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, took the opportunity to pay their respects in private at Whigham Funeral Home, Newark, New Jersey, yesterday. Millions of viewers are expected to witness Whitney Houston’s funeral at noon today. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 18, who made her first appearance since being rushed to hospital after col…
…ng the service. But on account of his connection with daughter Bobbi Kristina, Bobby Brown was later told he would be able to pay his last respects to Whitney Houston – who he was married to for 14 years. According to CNN, guests held in their hands an invitation with a cover featuring a photo of a smiling Whitney Houston. The six-page funeral program contained color family photos and a note…
…ubt Whitney would have wanted this to occur. I will continue to pay my respects to my ex-wife the best way I know how.” Early reports suggested Bobby Brown, who became divorced from Whitney Houston in 2007, was denied entry to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Shortly after the service began Bobby Brown was seen leaving the church with a grim expression on his face accompanied by…
…n to them before they heard it from some another source.” Emmett Till’s death became a symbol of the inequalities faced by the African-American population in society and the legal system. He was just 14 when he went to Mississippi to visiting family when he was killed for flirting with a white woman in 1955. Emmett Till was beaten, had his eyes gouged out and was shot in the head before his assai…
Whitney Houston’s flower-covered casket arrived at New Hope Baptist Church where her powerful voice first wowed a congregation as family made final preparations to remember the pop superstar in her hometown. Whitney Houston's casket arrived at New Hope Baptist Church in her hometown Newark, New Jersey ORDER OF SERVICE New Hope Mass Choir and The New Jersey Mass Choir sin…
…um where the embalmed body of his father – national founder Kim Il-Sung – has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994. A state funeral will be held there on December 28. Ri Ho-Il, a lecturer at the Korean Revolutionary History Museum, said: “Our General is our people’s benevolent father. He defended our people’s happiness, carrying on his forced march…
…around the streets of Spanish Harlem, taking the casket cover with a Puerto Rican flag to St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church Hector Camacho, a native of Puerto Rico, was shot in the face on November 20th while sitting in a parked car with a friend outside a bar in Bayamon, his hometown in the U.S. territory. The friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, died at the scene and the boxer was declared dead thre…
Kris Jenner develops a morbid obsession with her family’s unfinished funeral arrangements this week after spending time with her ageing mother. What starts off as a time for planning the happy arrival of a new life, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick’s at-the-time unborn daughter Penelope, quickly turns into a week spent in cemeteries and funeral homes to the horror of the Kardashia…
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