Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 12:59pm PDT By
X17 Staff
X17 has one of the only photos of Whitney Houston's body as it was taken from the Beverly Hilton hotel to the Los Angeles County coroner's office last night around midnight.
The coroner has completed an autopsy, according to a TMZ report; but results may not be released for another 4 - 6 weeks.
For now, the cause of death is unknown, but reports claim Houston was found underwater in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room just before 3:30pm Saturday. Emergency services responded in 20 minutes and made multiple attempts to revive the singer, without success. Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55pm.
Multiple reports claim Houston was acting strangely in hours and even days before her death. She did an impromptu performance at Tru nightclub Tuesday night (
X17online has the video here).
Whitney turned up to rehearsals for Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party "disheveled in mismatched clothes," according to the
LA Times -- her hair wet with sweat. "The singer smelled of alcohol and cigarettes" and "displayed erratic behavior" by "flailing her hands" while speaking to singers Monica and Brandy, according to the report.
A source tells
People, Houston was "twitching her nose constantly" and ranting to Monica about what she was to wear to the annual event. "I don't wear no blue. I don't want no goddamn blue," she reportedly said.
Tuesday night at Tru, Houston fought with singer Stacy Francis after the less-famous performer failed to recognize Whitney, according to
The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out our video of the scene at the Beverly Hilton Saturday at midnight ...
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 12:50pm PDT By
X17 Staff
As Alicia Keys prepared to enter the Beverly Hilton Saturday night -- just hours after Whitney Houston was found dead in her 4th-floor room at the hotel -- she stopped for a long embrace with her mentor Clive Davis.
Davis made the decision not to cancel his annual pre-Grammy party, despite Houston's passing -- but the mood of the event quickly shifted after news of the singer's death spread.
Clive Davis discovered Alicia Keys and set her on the path to winning five Grammys in 2002. Keys often compared the young star to his original protege, Whitney.
At the beginning of the evening, Davis read from a paper, to the crowd: ""I am personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me. She was full of life, looking forward for tonight. She loved music and she loved this night that celebrated music. Whitney was a beautiful person and she had a talent beyond compare. She graced this stage ... so many times. So simply put: Whitney would have wanted the music to go on."
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 12:30pm PDT By
X17 Staff
Vanessa Hudgens took a style cue from
Madonna Saturday as she bundled up in black fur for some shopping in Paris.
The actress did some damage at Le Bon Marche and in the boutiques of Saint-Germain de Pres. And we couldn't help but notice she ditched her usual boho style for a more sophisticated look. But does fur really equal sophistication???
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Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 12:00pm PDT By
X17 Staff
Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott have one big, happy family -- Stella, 3; Liam, 4; and McDermott's son from a previous marriage, Jack, 13 -- all enjoyed some lunch and shopping together in Malibu, Saturday.
And just a day before, we caught up with Dean in Beverly Hills and he showed off his tattoo memorials to his kids. Awww!
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 12:00pm PDT By
X17 Staff
Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott have one big, happy family -- Stella, 3; Liam, 4; and McDermott's son from a previous marriage, Jack, 13 -- all enjoyed some lunch and shopping together in Malibu, Saturday.
And just a day before, we caught up with Dean in Beverly Hills and he showed off his tattoo memorials to his kids. Awww!
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 10:56am PDT By
X17 Staff
Madonna headed in to the Kabbalah Centre in New York covered in a black fur hat and vest Saturday. She kept her hands warm in Chanel leather glovelettes.
PETA named the animal-unfriendly singer "Worst-Dressed Celeb" in 2009 but that didn't seem to deter the superstar in her fur-wearing ways.
There's an old Kabbalah lesson that says some teachers wear their spirituality like a fur coat -- it warms only them but doesn't spread warmth to others. Kabbalah aims to share spiritual connections outside a believer's circle ... is Madonna spreading the love???
Check out video of Madonna and her kids (with a newly-shorn Lourdes) arriving to the Centre ...
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 10:56am PDT By
X17 Staff
Madonna headed in to the Kabbalah Centre in New York covered in a black fur hat and vest Saturday. She kept her hands warm in Chanel leather glovelettes.
PETA named the animal-unfriendly singer "Worst-Dressed Celeb" in 2009 but that didn't seem to deter the superstar in her fur-wearing ways.
There's an old Kabbalah lesson that says some teachers wear their spirituality like a fur coat -- it warms only them but doesn't spread warmth to others. Kabbalah aims to share spiritual connections outside a believer's circle ... is Madonna spreading the love???
Check out video of Madonna and her kids (with a newly-shorn Lourdes) arriving to the Centre ...
Posted on Sun Feb 12th, 2012 10:00am PDT By
X17 Staff
Katherine Heigl and hubby Josh Kelley adopted their daughter Naleigh just over three years ago and they may be ready to do it again!
The couple and some friends had fun with the little tyke Saturday in Beverly Hills and the 33-year-old star admits she would like to expand her family. She told
Parent & Child magazine: "We have talked about having biological children as well, but we decided to adopt first. I'd like to adopt again."
The
One For the Money star tells the mag she knew she'd love an adopted child as much as one of her own: "Anyone who doesn't have experience with adoption wonders, 'Does love for a child come through DNA?' I knew it didn't ... They're yours. You love them the moment they're put into your arms. Josh had to learn that, but he was so gracious and accepting."