Whitney Houston's kicked the bucket

American singer and actress Whitney Houston has died in Los Angeles at the age of 48.

Police said she died in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she had been staying as a guest.

Houston was one of the most celebrated female singers of all time, with hits including I Will Always Love You and Saving All My Love For You.

But her later career was overshadowed by substance abuse and her turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown.

Ms Houston died on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. She had been due to attend a pre-awards party in the Beverly Hilton Hotel organised by her long-time mentor and record industry executive Clive Davis on Saturday evening.

The hotel was already teeming with reporters and celebrities when police received an emergency call from hotel security at 15.43 local time (23:43 GMT), Beverly Hills police spokesman Mark Rosen told the BBC.

Police were despatched, but paramedics, already at the hotel because of the party, attempted to resuscitate her, without success. She was pronounced dead at 15:55.

Mr Rosen said Ms Houston's entourage - comprising family members, friends and co-workers - had taken over much of the fourth floor of the hotel.

"There were a number of people on scene who were able to positively identify Ms Houston for us," he said, adding that her next of kin have been informed of her death.

He said police investigators were at the scene trying to determine the cause of her death, but said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent".


Mr Davis went ahead with the party, holding a minute's silence and telling the audience he was "personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me for so many years".

Rip lass, was shocked to read she was only 48 years old

Yep thats a shock...only 48...

anyone said what she was taking?

i think its another Jackson job, all these top celebrity don't want to be mingling with riff raff drug dealers from the hood, so they just employ a private doctor and tell them what to subscribe, no doubt her doctor will be on a charge in time to come, but the amount of money she'll have been giving him, it won't matter to him anyway, he'll have made enough to pack in work for good once he's out of nick.

there all at it

tbh i know sweet f.a about her but reading now sounds like she started to dabble when she started going out with bobby brown , still no idea what she was taking though

LEEDSLAD/03/01/2010 wrote:tbh i know sweet f.a about her but reading now sounds like she started to dabble when she started going out with bobby brown , still no idea what she was taking though

you'll have never heard of it if they tell us, it'll be something with high content of something like smack or coke, that doctors can subscribe, you'll be none the wiser when it comes out.

doctors doing coke cushty

for it to kill you off at 48 she must have been taking some big hits