Our sources tell us a member of Whitney's entourage found her in her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel ... and called hotel security -- who then dialed 911. When paramedics arrived Houston was found unresponsive.
We're told police arrived to the scene within minutes and fire was already there on an unrelated call. According to our sources, paramedics performed CPR but it did not work and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.
Our sources say there were no obvious signs of foul play, but BH PD detectives have begun a full investigation. We're told she was ID'ed by family and friends.
The singer famously battled drug addiction for years (see related links below).
Houston was seen out in Hollywood Thursday night for a Grammy party ... and she did not look well (below). She even briefly took the mic and performed a song while she was there -- what would become her last performance. See the video here.
Houston won two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards during her record-breaking career. Her album "Whitney" was the first female album to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts. She has sold 200 million albums worldwide.
Houston holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University in Louisiana.
Houston had one child, Bobbi Kristina, with husband Bobby Brown. Houston and Brown were married from 1992-2007.
We spotted Whitney out just last weekend with on-again/off-again beau Ray-J (see video below).
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Whitney Houston's daughter tried to slit her wrists and was taken to a pycho ward for evaluation rather than jail.
Suicide is illegal in most states, but because Whitney is now dating KIM KASHARDIAN's video co star Ray J Leslie Siegel blogger queen hears that Ray J may be the direct cause because Whitney is "all into him now" and not paying much attention to her daughter who has been partying up a storm lately in Atlanta since her parent's divorce. Bad boy Bobby Brown is worried and trying to spend more time with his daughter Bobbi who is very disturbed, but wouldn't anyone be upset if their mother's boyfriend is co starring with KIM KASHARDIAN in her sexy video and Ray J is on the cover in front of the biggest video store in North Hollywood CA where everyone sees Ray J and KIM KASHARDIAN's names side by side together on a huge poster advertising KIM KASHARDIAN's very sexy video and KIM KASHARDIAN's show which is renewed and playing on E!
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OSCAR DE LA HOYA DRAG QUEEN PHOTOS! GEORGE CLOONEY TELLURIDE!
OSCAR DE LA HOYA PHOTOS IN DRAG BOMBSHELL
OSCAR DE LA HOYA DRAG QUEEN PHOTOS! GEORGE CLOONEY TELLURIDE!
OSCAR DE LA HOYA PHOTOS IN DRAG BOMBSHELL
OSCAR DE LA HOYA IS DENYING THAT THE PHOTOS OF HIM WITH MALANA THE EXOTIC DANCER IN A HOTEL ROOM ARE REAL. THE PHOTOS ARE FAKED! SHE IS NOW AT THE CENTER OF THE OSCAR DE LA HOYA BOMBSHELL HE SUPPOSEDLY POSED FOR IN DRAG.
“I WOULD NEVER WANT TO BLACKMAIL HIM OR SELL THOSE PICTURES” SAID THE 22 YEAR OLD DANCER. BUT THE PLAN OVER THE PHOTOS WAS ALREADY IN MOTION IN A VOICE MAIL THAT WAS MADE PUBLIC: MALANA’S VOICE IS CLEARLY HEARD ON THE VOICE MAIL. “I CAN’T BELIEVE WE DID THIS. THIS IS SO STUPID BECAUSE I COULDA’ GOTTEN SO MUCH moremoney OUT OF THIS,” SAYS THE FRANTIC FEMALE VOICE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE DANCER. IF THIS IS HER ON THE VOICE MAIL THAN SHE DID TRY AND BLACKMAIL THE OLYMPIC SUPERSTAR BOXER DE LA HOYA!
THE VOICE BABBLES ON. “WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW?…WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME? BUT SHE STILL SAYS THAT IT REALLY IS THE BOXER IN HER PHOTOS OF THE FANCY DRESS UP. “THEY ARE MY MEMENTOS!” SHE INSISTS THEY WERE NOT ALONE AND SAID, “IT WAS LIKE A SLUMBER PARTY WITH A BUNCH OF GIRLS, BUT ONLY OSCAR DE LA HOYA HAPPENED TO BE IN IT!”
OSCAR DE LA HOYA LAWYERS HIRED A PHOTO EXPERT WHO SAID THAT THE PHOTOS ARE FAKE AND IT IS NOT DE LA HOYA IN THEM! “A WOMAN CONTACTED MR. DE LA HOYA AND DEMANDED $160,000 DOLLARS BUT HE REFUSED TO PAY,” SAID THE STATEMENT. BUT OSCAR DE LA HOYA HAS THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE SEXY IN DRAG PHOTO SESSION: “I HAVE NO REASON TO MAKE ANY PAYOFFS TO ANYONE!”
MALANA IS HEARD ON THE VOICE MAIL SAY THAT OSCAR IS AN IDOL OF AMERICA, AND SHE JUST TRASHED HIS IMAGE. “NOBODY…EVERYBODY HATES HIM FOR DOING THIS,” STATED THE EXOTIC DANCER ON THE TAPE. SHE SAID THAT DE LA HOYA HAD BEEN FRIENDS WITH HER FOR THE LAST 10 MONTHS. THE CALLER ON THE VOICE MAIL GOES ON TO SAY, “THIS WAS NOT WORTH IT, THE PRICE THAT WE’RE PAYING FOR IT. I’M REALLY UPSET ABOUT THIS! I CAN’T SLEEP. I CAN’T EAT. I’M THROWING UP AND I CAN’T BELIEVE I PAID TO COME TO YOU GUYS. I WISH WE’D BEEN A LOT SMARTER!” BUT IN AN INTERVIEW TODAY, THE PETITE PRETTY DANCER SAID “THIS IS NOT A JOKING MATTER AND I DON’T WANT TO EXTORT ANYONE for money! BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SHE TRIED.
Telluride Film Festival: George Clooney's 'The Descendants' makes waves
Matt King’s (George Clooney) wife in “The Descendants” is in a coma, the result of a traumatic brain injury suffered in a boating accident. Yet it is really King himself who is trying to wake up — he has been drifting through life, marriage and parenting, and his wife’s grave condition forces the real estate lawyer to disengage his autopilot.
The opening film shown at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, “The Descendants” is writer-director Alexander Payne’s first feature since 2004’s Oscar-winning “Sideways.” While the film on first blush may sound a bit like Clooney’s “Up in the Air” — the Jason Reitman movie that also had its world premiere in Telluride in the same slot two years ago — the films ultimately have little in common.
Adapted by Payne and screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel of the same name, “The Descendants” is set in Hawaii, where King is the sole trustee of a 25,000-acre parcel held in a family trust since the 1860s. King’s relatives want him to cash out for untold millions and yield to developers, but King has more pressing problems.
With his wife, Elizabeth, unlikely ever to regain consciousness, King has to figure out how to care for his two daughters. Ten-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller) is despondent over her mother’s condition, while 17-year-old Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) is rebelling through alcohol, drugs and promiscuity. “I’m the backup parent, the understudy,” King says in a voiceover. All of a sudden, he’s onstage and doesn’t know any of the lines.
“You really don’t have a clue, do you?” his older daughter asks him at one point.
It turns out, he really doesn’t.
King quickly finds out that Alexandra is acting out not because of her age but because she knows a family secret that has missed her father’s notice. So the three Kings (along with Alexandra’s boyfriend, Sid) set out on an inter-island road trip, trying not only to deal with the secret but also to figure out how to function as a family. At the same time, they have to confront their mother's mortality, which is both frank and moving.
Clooney said after the screening that it was “a weird thing” to be playing “such a schlub at times.” And if you missed Clooney in 1996’s “One Fine Day,” you may not have seen him playing a dad before — “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” doesn’t count. While it’s hard to make Clooney look bad, he’s no Danny Ocean in Payne's movie — the haircut isn’t tidy, the clothes scarcely stylish.
The same can be said for how Payne depicts Hawaii: This is not a tourism ad, and the island is filled with ordinary-looking people (some are fat, some use wheelchairs, some are poor) with some extraordinary problems. And yet, at the same time, the land anchors the story — it’s what ties these characters together, and may drive them apart. Said Payne: “I have never seen Hawaii in a movie like this.”
After playing in Telluride, “The Descendants” will travel to the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival, where its critical and awards prospects could be cemented. Fox Searchlight will release the film Nov. 23. For audiences who have been waiting so long for Payne’s return to the movies, that’s less than three months away.
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Telluride announces festival lineup
Clooney's 'Ides of March' premieres in Venice
Trailer for Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants' unveiled
-- John Horn in Telluride, Colo.
Photo: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller in "The Descendants." Credit: Fox Searchlight
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