Whitney Houston dead at 48
 

TMZ is quoting her publicist that the legendary entertainer has died.

Shocking and tragic.

Indeed. I saw the post pop up as I updated the forum. Totally took me off guard. I hate to speculate, but had to be drugs.

Currently died of unknown cause and unknown location according to her publicist

http://news.yahoo.com/whitney-housto...005927033.html

this was NOT unknow. if you know her pass from the 80s and 90s...she died from drugs..her and her coke hubby Bobby Brown is coming up next if he doesn't fix himself better.

F*ck, it has barely been a week since Cornelius died and now this?

Man... she had the most beautiful voice.

They found her in a Beverly Hills Hotel and tried to revive her. It's unknown....but my guess is overdose or suicide

Never been done better...

I remember her when she first became famous in the 1980's. I knew she had drug problems all her life, but would have thought that by now she might have gone off them the way Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones did.

Well, it looks like the "death comes in threes" rule strikes again. Just over two weeks ago, it was Etta James, then Don Cornelius last week, and now Whitney Houston. And OT TMNT fans are especially familiar with her voice as the TMNT's franchise peaked right in the middle of her popularity. She's sort of the female Michael Jackson however, with a definitive "shark jumping" moment in their careers to the point that they became virtually deader than disco until sympathy arrived. I followed her two main fan forums, classic Whitney and Whitney-Fan for awhile around her comeback attempt, but I knew from spending enough time there that hope for a revival was nearly impossible. May this be a valuable lesson to aspiring singers. At least TMNT was good with anti-drug measures! I have 27 singles and three albums of her plus 2 12" singles, along with four concert programs of her and two wall calendars, and even a 1981 Seventeen Magazine with her on the cover! A very sad, Billie Holiday-esque career with some noticeable parallels. Rest in peace, Whitney. :(

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I used to create year-wise playlists in the MP 3-player from the 1950's to today and when coming to the years circa 1987-1995, it also got the perfect fealing when hearing a lot of songs from those years with different artists.

Wonderful voice in a very sad life.... :cry:

Rest in peace.

A shame what drugs can do to a person. Oh well.

I heard Bobby's having fits over this.

It looks like he's gonna have to take control:D

Yeah, I heard about this yesterday when my sister called and told us. It's a shame that she had to die, but I could see it coming with her history. I thought she had cleaned up her act. Such a shame though. She had an amazing voice.

I heard he killed himself - his suicide note simply said "Two can play that game"... :p

bummer :tsad:

Reports right now are saying she drowned in the bathtub.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/12/whitne...tub-underwater

What the heck is going on?? Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Anna Nichole... It just seems all to coincidental to me. I'm not into conspiracy theories, but all these celebs dying like this, and at such young ages, makes me start to think a little..... What a shame. :/

Drugs. Simple as that.

O_O She's dead? You mean the stupid blonde gold-digger from Playboy that talked like a toddler? Hallelujah! ^_^

You're f*cking despicable.

You mean the one who went on that one awards show and asked, "Do you like my body?" Yeah, she's dead. I never liked her anyway.

As for Whitney, I also thought she had cleaned up her act, but even if she did, it still could've done damage, and she just died suddenly.

Celebrities dying young isn't a novelty. Jimi Herndrix, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, Rudolph Valentino, just off the top of my head. Many but not all died of drugs or alcohol. Rudolph Valentino died of illness while in the hospital, probably from a hospital infection or bad treatment.

Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007. "Accidental" drug overdose

Even though I've never been a fan (or a hater, for that matter) it made me very sad to find she had died. :( Probably a victim of drug overdose.

RIP Whitney. May she at last find the peace in the afterlife she didn't find amonst the living

You can't accidentally overdose on something you shouldn't put in your body in the first place, there's nothing "accidental" about it, the body decides it's had enough and shuts down. People frequently "overdose" and die from much smaller dosages of narcotics than they consume on a regular basis. I don't even like the term "overdose" used as a cause of death, it sends the message that "just a little" is somehow "safe", and that's how everyone starts on that **** in the first place.

I love how some people are already starting with the tributes and blah blah, as if anyone would care if she wasn't famous. Someone wins a beauty pageant or a high school talent show, people tell them they're amazing, someone puts 'em on TV and gives 'em a million dollars, and suddenly they're no longer a "mere mortal". They're godly, infallible, and can do whatever they like because they have a "talent". And when they do something stupid and die it's a "tragedy" instead of slow-motion suicide. Whateeeever.

My thoughts on people who die from drugs are pretty well-known by now. Know better, don't be stupid, be better, etc. etc.

Celebrity deaths are also selective. If Whitney Houston had been a professional wrestler who overdosed, it would automatically be assumed to be steroids and everyone would be decrying the industry...

exactly right

Wow. So much anger.

The prevailing theory is that she took a Xanax (which she apparently did have a valid perscription for......it's an anxiety drug.....she was headed to a crowded party....not a scenario that would raise a red flag if you took an anti anxiety med.) Then went to take a bath, fell asleep, and drowned in the tub. One Xanax would be enough to make you sleepy.

Just because the media paints pictures of a still on crack Whitney doesn't make it true.

Well, until the autopsy results are conclusive, we won't know for sure. But if she did take a Xanax, I can't understand why she'd go into a bathtub to take a bath. Why didn't she just lie down in bed?

The Grammys did a tribute to her that was really heartfelt. I agree about the drug thing, Leo, but it's still sad because she was an amazing singer. I'm really sad for her daughter. Mom had heard that they wouldn't let her in to see her mother and that she was cursing and demanding to see her. It just breaks my heart to hear something like that.

Whoa. Just read all these replies. I didn't do a good job of conveying this, but my intention was more so to say it bums me out to hear these things, regardless of who it happens to (celeb or not).

And there it is.

RIP Whitney.

Total bummer!

Latest report: she had both alcohol and prescription drugs in her system.

I really hope it wasn't deliberate suicide. :tsad:

Yeah, I agree. How could you do that to your daughter?

how can anyobe be shocked over this?? she's been on more rocks than cliffhanger..oh well... she wasted her own life

that would be tragic for sure

There's no denying she brought on an early death, but still, RIP.

Yes, and that's the tragedy of it. The fact that she pretty much killed herself by consuming those things and leaving a daughter without a mother.