A shocking picture of Whitney Houston’s bathroom took at her home in Atlanta, Georgia, shows how the star’s life spiraled into chaos at the height of her crack addiction. The deplorable image, shot in 2006, shows a room littered with drug paraphernalia, including a crack-smoking pipe and spoons covered in white powder. Despite her fame and wealth, Whitney Houston had descended into sq…
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…ularly the smoking of crack cocaine. The soaring vocals had become a soft, whispery falsetto. “She doesn’t want to come, my soprano friend,” Whitney Houston told a booing concert audience in London in 2010. The years of material plenty were behind her, too. Whitney Houston was reportedly once again “flat broke”, even though she should have had a fortune well in excess of $160 million. Indeed, desp…
…by Brown lived in the posh Country Club of the South in Alpharetta, Georgia, and she remembers the day she and her sister-in-law first got high. In her own words Tina Brown explained: “It was February 21, 2004. The reason why I know this date is because February 20 is my birthday.” “We were drinking a lot,” said Tina Brown. “I passed out on the couch but I wake up about six in the morning. I went…
…ouston was born to a middle class family in Newark, New Jersey in 1963. She was the third and youngest child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston Jr., who passed away in 2003, and gospel singer Cissy Houston. It was clear that natural talent in music ran through her family. Whitney Houston’s cousins Dionne Warwick and the late Dee Dee Warwick, and also her godmother…
was “leading her down a road to destruction”. David Roberts also raised his concerns with her company executives – who thanked him, then dispensed with his services. At least twice, in 1999 and 2005, Cissy Houston grew so desperate of Whitney’s drug addiction she staged legal “interventions” forcing her to complete a recovery programme Quite how the couple managed to raise their daughter,…
Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother, paid an emotional tribute to her beloved daughter today as family, friends and some of the biggest names in the music world gathered at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, for the singer’s funeral. Among the mourners at today’s highly-charged service, were singers Chaka Khan, Brandy, Roberta Flack, Jordin Sparks and Jennifer Hu…
Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston’s former personal assistant, had been the singer’s secret lesbian lover for many years, claims gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Peter Tatchell claimed Whitney Houston attended an AIDS event in London, in 1991, with a gay partner. Though he declined to identify her, the organizer – respected gay rights and equality consultant Vernal Scott – said that Pete…
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…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…
…own in a scalding bath by her assistant, who had left her for just 45 minutes while she went out to run errands. When paramedics arrived, Whitney Houston was unresponsive. They performed CPR for about 20 minutes before declaring her dead. A coroner ruled that the death of the greatest singer of her age had been due to accidental drowning, with heart disease and chronic cocaine abuse listed as cont…
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Patricia Houston, Whitney Houston’ sister-in-law, has spoken about the moment she found the singer dead in her hotel room on February 11 during her interview with Oprah Winfrey on Oprah’s Next Chapter. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in her first TV interview since Whitney passed Patricia Houston recounted the events of that fateful day. Pat Houston explained how Whitney had eaten lunch in her hotel ro…
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Tina Brown, Whitney Houston’s ex-sister-in-law, back in 2006, alleged that the singer was addicted to crack cocaine and was living in squalor. Tina Brown, Bobby Brown’ sister claimed that she knew this because she used crack cocaine with Whitney Houston. The British tabloid, The Sun, had reportedly received photographs of Whitney Houston, depicting drug paraphernalia including a crack pipe,…
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…menstrual cramps, amoxicillin – for bacterial infections and several others. TMZ reported that some of the prescriptions were filled out at the infamous Mickey Fine pharmacy, which was raided in 2009 by the DEA for evidence of “improper dispensing of controlled substances”, in connection with the death of Michael Jackson. These reports have yet to be confirmed. Whitney Houston ate the burge…
Yesterday in Atlanta, Whitney Houston’s family went into probate court and named Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister in law and manager, as executor. Mother Cissy Houston is now a trustee. The Forbes site presented the current codicil and statement. If the 2000 codicil had stood, Whitney Houston’s other sister-in-law, Donna, and her husband, Michael, would have been trustees and Whitney’s old lawyer, S…
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…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…
…ustrate that, Robyn Crawford published some of her most cherished memories with her friend. Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford met years before Whitney became a huge star. In fact, the singer was just 16. However, Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford formed a quick friendship and a bond that grew and blossomed. The singer even hired Robyn Crawford to work with her. Robyn Crawford (right), Whitney H…
Though Whitney Houston sold more than 200 million albums – including The Bodyguard soundtrack which she earned $33million from – and singles during her career and commanded $10million per movie, the legendary singer was said to have been on the verge of bankruptcy when she died. A messy divorce with Bobby Brown, addictions to alcohol and drugs are all said to have whittled away Whitne…
…rmer close friend Robyn Crawford The author also said that Regina Brown, Whitney Houston’s former publicist, told him, the story of a very public altercation between Whitney and Robyn Crawford at the 1991 Super Bowl, where the singer sung the national anthem. Regina Brown allegedly said that M.C. Hammer appeared, he and Whitney Houston went off by themselves, talking and laughing and Robyn Crawfo…
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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…
…been thought Bobby Brown would be kept away amid resentment he led Whitney Houston astray and fears he was trying to get his hands on her $40 million fortune. The 90-minute service will take place at 12:00 p.m. local time at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, where Whitney Houston was first discovered as a teenager. It will reportedly be a mixture of religious music and celebrity…
…o.>>” Jordin Sparks, the former American Idol winner, who is four years older than Whitney Houston’s own daughter, Bobbi Kristina, recalled her favorite on-set memory of the superstar. The 22-year-old singer told Access Hollywood: “[Whitney] had an iPod and she’d be blasting gospel, and I’d put on Teach Me How To Dougie or something. She’d say, <<You listen to t…
During this tumultuous time, Bobby Brown was arrested for drugs and alcohol and Whitney Houston entered drug rehabilitation programs twice. They wed in July 1992 and eventually separated in September 2006, before their divorce was finalized in April 2007. Timelines of Whitney Houston’s and Bobby Brown’s relationship: July 18, 1992 – Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston marry. 1993 – Bobby Brown…
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on gather.com moments before the news broke, Ray-J was seen trying to console Bobbi Kristina, who was screaming, in the lobby of the hotel. The singer/reality TV star and Whitney Houston dated between 2007 and 2009 but it was believed they had recently picked up their romance after being spotted at an LA restaurant. Ray-J, 17 years younger than Whitney Houston, is the youngest brother of the singe…
Whitney Houston had just $29,000 in her bank account at the moment of her death, while having debts of more than $4 million. Whitney Houston’s financial situation was previously disclosed during her divorce from Bobby Brown in 2007, and it showed how the singer had managed to blow many of the millions she had earned during her career. But while Whitney Houston, who sold more than 170 millio…
…announced that Whitney Houston funeral will take place on Saturday in New Jersey at her childhood church with the general public unable to attend the 300 invited guests. The funeral will take place at 12:00 p.m. EST, in Newark’s New Hope Baptist Church. Detroit based pastor and former recording artist Marvin Winans will deliver the eulogy at the funeral service and he described her death as…
…ront of her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Meanwhile it has been claimed that Whitney Houston binged on cocaine, alcohol and pills in her final months. Insiders say that after months of sober living during 2011, Whitney Houston fell off the wagon. A source told Star magazine: “The last three months of Whitney’s life were truly tragic.” Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly…
