Whitney Houston's Body Arrives Home In New Jersey

The body of Whitney Houston arrived in a gold hearse to a funeral parlor in her home state of New Jersey, where a memorial service will be held for around 18,000 people at Newark's Prudential Center, at the end of the week.

Houston's family is reportedly holding a wake on Thursday and funeral on Friday for the 48-year-old pop star, who was found dead in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, just hours before she was set to make an appearance at a pre-Grammy gala.

While it has been suspected that Houston's death was a result of a drug overdose, authorities are not ruling out natural causes. Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter confirmed that the prescription bottles in her room were not "alarming" or "out of the ordinary," but toxicology reports will not be available for several weeks.

Newark's Whigham Funeral Home is handling the singer's arrangements, which is the same funeral home that organized the 2003 memorial of Houston's father, John Houston.