WHITNEY HOUSTON DEAD AT 6:55PM EST

WHITNEY HOUSTON IS DEAD AT 48.I GREW UP LISTENING TO HER.THIS IS A SAD DAY IN HISTORY.SHE DIED IN A HOTEL ROOM ON THE FLOOR AT 3:55PM PACIFIC TIME,6:55PM EASTERN TIME.

Breaking News: Whitney Houston Dead at 48
Celebrity News February 11, 2012 AT 8:09PM By UsWeekly Staff

Whitney Houston Dead at 48 Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic-Grammy winning, chart-topping singer Whitney Houston died Saturday afternoon, her rep confirmed to Us Weekly.One of the most successful and award-winning female artists of all time, Houston was 48, and is survived by Bobbi Kristina, her 18-year-old daughter with ex-husband Bobby Brown to whom she was married from 1992 to 2007.

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Further details of Houston's shocking death have not yet been revealed.After Houston's heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s (including her hugely successful album The Bodyguard, the soundtrack from the film in which she starred), she famously struggled with drug addiction, and her world-famous voice became noticeably raspy on later recordings.

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She entered an out-patient drug rehab program in May 2009 for drug and alcohol treatment, her rep confirmed at the time. The I Will Always Love You singer opened up to Diane Sawyer in a 2002 interview about her substance abuse problems, saying that she had used marijuana, cocaine and pills at times to get high.

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In her extraordinary music career, Houston sold over 200 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy awards, two Emmy awards and more.The superstar was born in Newark, NJ, the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston; she was discovered by famed music producer Clive Davis, her champion throughout her career, at an NYC nightclub.
Houston (who followed up her role in The Bodyguard with parts in The Preacher's Wife and Waiting to Exhale) was set to star in a new film this year, Sparkle, a remake of a 1976 film loosely based on the Supremes.Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/whitney-houston-dead-at-48-2012112#ixzz1m89UQnqS