Though the unexpected death of her mother
is still fresh in her mind, sources are saying that Whitney Houston's daughter,
Bobbi Kristina, is doing better.
"She's doing okay," says a source close
to the family. "She's still obviously got a lot to deal with but she's doing a
little better each day, and being back home in Atlanta seems to be a good
thing."
Bobbi suffered from an emotional
breakdown shortly after hearing the tragic news of her mother's untimely death,
but with family support is getting by.
"She is a strong girl," says Ellin LaVar,
Houston's former hairstylist, who did Brown's hair for her mother's viewing on
Feb. 17. "I think with support she will make it through this."
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After a week of swirling rumors, Bobbi
Kristina Brown's rep finally confirmed that she's not engaged to her 'adopted'
brother, Nick Gordon.
Last week, Whitney Houston's daughter was
seen out and about with a ring on her finger, leading many to speculate that she
may be walking down the aisle in the near future.
On Monday (March 19), Brown's rep told
People magazine that the reports are "not true" with another source adding, "She
is just wearing her mom's ring."
Since the death of her singing icon
mother just a little over a month ago, an insider dished to Us Weekly that
Bobbi's new relationship has been helpful in the grieving process, saying,
"Bobbi Kristina is still so vulnerable since her mother passed away," adding,
"But Nick has become like her rock."
The controversial romance first made
headlines about a week ago when Gordon posted a picture of the two on his
Twitter page.
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After recently being nabbed for his
second DUI, Bobby Brown has now charged with driving under the influence and
driving with a suspended license on Wednesday (March 28).
As previously reported by GossipCenter,
the "New Edition" singer was stopped by the Los Angeles Police Department just
after noon on Monday for talking on his cell phone while operating his motor
vehicle.
The charges were then upped when
officials determined Brown was driving while on a then unknown substance, which
has now been confirmed to be alcohol - as he registered 0.12 on a BAC
test.
The arrest comes just six weeks after
Brown's former wife, singing legend Whitney Houston, passed away unexpectedly at
the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
After the recent tragic death of her
mother Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown is looking to change her legal
name.
According to a report by TMZ, the singing
icon's daughter despises her last name because of the association it has with
her father, Bobby Brown.
The report tells that Bobbi has
reportedly told her friends that she has contemplated the name change since her
parents split, but has yet to do so because her mom preferred she stick with
Brown.
But, now that Whitney is no longer with
us, the 19-year-old is hoping to switch up her legal name to Kristina
Houston.
Though there is no definitive plans on
when the change will happen, friends say Bobbi Kristina is in a "better place"
and has made the decision with a clear and positive mind.
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Ray J had a very close relationship with
Whitney Houston before she died, and Ray J is furious about rumors that he gave
her drugs.
In the wake of reports that the late "I
Will Always Love You" songstress had cocaine in her system at the time of her
demise, Ray is vehemently denying that she ever obtained any illegal substances
from him.
Bobby Brown's sister Leolah Brown claims
she saw Ray leaving Houston's hotel on the day she died. "I saw Ray J coming out
of the hotel, hiding his head, being pushed into the car. Why? I looked and I
said, 'why is he hiding his face?' He's always trying to show his face when he's
around Whitney. Why now? Why are you trying to hide now Ray J?"
However, Ray's attorney declared that
Brown's interview was “rife with false statements. Even though Leolah Brown was
nowhere near the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the day Whitney Houston died, Ms. Brown
falsely claimed that Ray J was at the hotel and contributed to Whitney Houston's
death."
"Even the most minimal inquiry with
anyone actually in contact with Whitney would reveal that Leolah Brown had been
out of contact with Whitney for more than a year."
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Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine
user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub,
coroner's officials said Thursday after releasing autopsy findings that also
noted heart disease contributed to her death.
The disclosure ended weeks of speculation
about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. 11 on the eve of the Grammy
Awards.
Houston was found submerged in the
bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and her death was ruled
accidental. Several bottles of prescription medications were found in her hotel
room, but coroner's officials said there weren't excessive
quantities.
"We are saddened to learn of the
toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure," Patricia Houston,
the singer's sister-in-law and manager, wrote in a statement to The Associated
Press.
Beverly Hills police said in a statement
there was no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with Houston's
death.
Coroner's Chief of Operations Craig
Harvey said cocaine and its byproducts were found in Houston's system, and the
drug was listed as a contributing factor in her death. He said the results
indicated Houston was a chronic cocaine user.
Toxicology results also showed Houston
had marijuana, Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril, and the allergy medication
Benadryl in her system. Houston died just hours before she was scheduled to
appear at producer Clive Davis' pre-Grammy Awards bash.
The singer also had buildup of plaque in
her arteries that can restrict blood flow. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter
said the condition is common in drug users, although he said it wasn't clear
whether Houston had a heart attack on the day she died.
"It just beats up their heart and they
will go to use and they will have a heart attack," he said.
The exact amount of cocaine in Houston's
system was not disclosed Thursday but will be contained in a full autopsy report
to be released in about two weeks, officials said.
Cocaine use has been known to cause
damage to the heart and could have cause Houston's death, said Dr. Michael
Fishbein, professor of pathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
He had no role in the investigation.
He said a likely scenario was that
Houston's cocaine use interfered with the normal function of her
heart.
"There's no reason to drown in a bathtub
unless you're incapacitated," Fishbein said.
Family and friends said after Houston's
death that they didn't believe she was still abusing drugs.
"I don't think drugs was an issue for her
before her death. I don't know what happened that day," Patricia Houston said in
a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Toxicology results released on Thursday
determined that Whitney Houston had cocaine in her system when she drowned in
the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room February 11. The news is sad, but
it doesn't come as much of a surprise. The question many are asking themselves
now is: Why couldn't Houston get clean?
And the public was losing its patience
with her. Houston was routinely showing up hours late for interviews, photo
shoots, and rehearsals. Then, in 2000, airport security officers in Hawaii
claimed they found a half-ounce of marijuana in Houston's bag, but she and
then-husband Bobby Brown hopped aboard their plane home before police arrived
(the two were never charged). In March of that year, her performance at the
Academy Awards was canceled when the "I Will Always Love You" singer was
reportedly "totally out of it" during her rehearsal and kept singing a different
song other than the one she was supposed to perform.
By 2001, Houston's problems took on a
physical manifestation. Her skeletal frame at the 30th anniversary special for
Michael Jackson that August was particularly alarming (her rep blamed family
stress for killing her appetite). The public once again cringed in 2002 during
the singer's interview with Diane Sawyer. When the journalist pressed Houston
about her rumored drug use, she infamously declared, "Crack is wack. Crack is
cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight.
Okay?"
Chatting with Winfrey seven years later,
Houston — who claimed to be clean at the time — got real about her history of
drug use, and it was a no-holds-barred conversation. She admitted she abused
drugs because she was "trying to hide pain" from the intense pressure of being
in the spotlight, as well as her tumultuous marriage to Brown. Houston
matter-of-factly detailed their descent together. "We were lacing our marijuana
with base," she told Winfrey. "We weren't on crack. We weren't on no crack
stuff. We weren't buying $20 jumbos. We were paying money. We were buying kilos
and ounces and ounces. We would have our stash."
It wasn't until Houston found the
strength to leave Brown that she was able to get clean, she told Winfrey. But
although she filed for divorce in 2007, her demons were still lurking. "Don't
think I don't have desires for it," she said in the 2009 interview. "There are
times it takes a minute to cleanse, get off. Get off me. Just leave me alone.
Get off me. I have to pray it away." Houston did admit to still enjoying a drink
from time to time, but as far as drugs went, "No weed. No coke. No."
Sadly, her temptations clearly got the
best of her. The coroner's report on Houston revealed that in addition to
cocaine, she also had marijuana in her system. "We are saddened to learn of the
toxicology results," her heartbroken family said in a statement Thursday,
adding, "we are glad to now have closure."
Houston, 48, was buried in a New Jersey
cemetery next to her father after an emotional four-hour funeral service that
was attended by friends, family and superstars such as Oprah Winfrey, Tyler
Perry, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Roberta
Flack
Houston, a sensation from her first,
eponymous album in 1985, was one of the world's best-selling artists from the
mid-1980s to the late 1990s, turning out such hits as "I Wanna Dance With
Somebody," ''How Will I Know," ''The Greatest Love of All" and "I Will Always
Love You." But as she struggled with drugs, her majestic voice became raspy, and
she couldn't hit the high notes.
Interest in her music skyrocketed after
her death, pushing her songs back on to charts and into heavy rotation on the
radio.
She influenced a generation of younger
singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, but Houston's drug use
derailed her career and took a heavy toll on her once pristine voice.
But by the end of her career, she was a
stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and
the hits stopped coming. Her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor
and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and
pills and was eventually unable to hit the high notes as she had during her
prime.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my
best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous
2002 television interview with then-husband Bobby Brown by her side.
She had been attempting a comeback when
she died. She had finished filming a remake of the movie "Sparkle" in which
Houston sang the gospel hymn "His Eye is on the Sparrow." Producers of the film
have said the singer was a complete professional on the set.
With Whitney Houston's death, rumored
lover Ray J seemed to be finally gaining a name for himself as something other
than Kim Kardashian's sex-tape partner. The hip hop and R&B singer, younger
brother to "Moesha" star and singer Brandy, was reportedly distraught over the
sudden death of Whitney Houston, with whom he was rumored to be in a romantic
relationship in the years before her death.
Well, it looks like Ray J's back to his
same old sex-tape business. Radar Online is reporting that it has learned
through anonymous sources that the singer has "a ton of sexually explicit photos
and videos" featuring himself and the late Whitney Houston.
The Houston family is obviously desperate
to not let these tapes leak out, and according to Radar, the family has "been in
contact with Ray and told him they do not want any photos or videos painting her
in a bad light to come out."
A representative for Whitney Houston’s
daughter Bobbi Kristina has dismissed reports suggesting the teenager is engaged
to her “adopted brother.”
Family sources have been releasing
statements to the media about the teen’s alleged romance with Nick Gordon, who
Houston informally adopted when he was 12, with some insiders suggesting the two
are planning to wed.
But, despite recent photos and video
footage that show Gordon and Bobbi Kristina holding hands and kissing, a rep for
the teenager insists there are no marriage plans.
The spokesperson tells UsMagazine.com,
“Bobbi Kristina is not engaged. It is not true.”
Another source tells the website that the
ring Bobbi Kristina has started wearing on her wedding finger belonged to her
late mother – and is not a gift from Gordon.
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According to a report published by Forbes
Magazine last week, sources at the Whigham Funeral Home in New Jersey know for a
fact that a man named Raffles van Exel is the person who sold the heart
wrenching photo of the late R&B icon Whitney Houston's body lying in her
golden coffin.
But who the hell is this guy?Forbes says
that Raffles van Exel, who also uses the aliases Raffles Benson and Raffles
Dawson, is a so called "lose friend"of Whitney' who attended not just one, but
TWO private viewings for the singer held at the Whigham Funeral Home in New
Jersey.
The first viewing was held on Friday,
February 17th, the night before the memorial service, and the second was held
Sunday morning before the burial.Staff at the funeral home — who have vehemently
denied having any involvement with the photo leaking throughout this entire
ordeal — say they noticed van Exel right away.
Though he' not a blood relative of the
Houston', his apparent close association with Whitney Houston allowed him to
travel with the family on a private jet from Los Angeles to New Jersey prior to
the services.
Van Exel was also literally the ONLY
non-family member who attended both viewings, and he also accompanied Patricia
Houston — Whitney's former sister-in-law and manager — in her car to those, as
well as the the funeral and burial services. One source says van Exel even had
his own bodyguard with him, which was a bit unusual.
Whitney Houston's death over the weekend
shocked fans.She died on Saturday in Los Angeles at age 48.In her teens she sang
backup for various music acts.Her first album was released in 1985. "Whitney
Houston" sold millions and spawned hit after hit. She went on to record dozens
of songs and albums.
1. " I Will Always Love You" (1992) –
Though many fans remember this as Houston's signature song, it was actually
penned by Dolly Parton. This song helped Houston win Grammys for Record of the
Year and Best Female Pop Vocal, and "The Bodyguard" won Album of the
Year.
2. " Greatest Love of All" (1986) –
According to information from About.com, this song spent three weeks at No. 1 on
pop charts.
3. " How Will I Know" (1985) – This fun
track help Houston prove she had it all: she could span genres from pop to
contemporary to R&B and now dance.
4. " I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (1987)
– Houston earned a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for this
song, which debuted on pop charts at No.1.
5. " Didn't We Almost Have it All?"
(1986) – This breakup song was nominated for a Grammy and spent several weeks on
top of the pop charts.
6. " So Emotional" (1987) – This song was
written for Houston by the musical geniuses behind Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and
became the singer's sixth consecutive No. 1 hit.
7. " Star-Spangled Banner" (1991) –
Houston performed the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl and later released
a single of the song to raise funds for soldiers in the Persian Gulf
War.
8. " Hold Me" with Teddy Pendergrass
(1984) – Critics said the Houston held her own against the R&B legend, and
fans agreed. The song was released on Houston's album "Whitney Houston" and
Pendergrass's "Love Languages."
9. " Saving All My Love for You" (1985) –
This was Houston's first No. 1 song and helped her win her first Grammy award.
It was originally performed in 1978 by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis
Jr.
10. " All the Man that I Need" (1990) –
This ballad about love during tough times featured a saxophone solo by Kenny
G.
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