Legendary pop singer and film star Whitney Houston has died in her hotel room after a long battle with drugs and alcohol that blighted her career. She was 48.
The star was found by her bodyguard drowned in a bathtub in a room containing prescription pill bottles, according to sources.
Paramedics battled to revive the singer but she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm yesterday afternoon.
Her frantic daughter Bobbi Kristina is said to have got into a 'furious screaming argument' with police who refused to let her into the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles to see the body of her dead mother.
Friends of Miss Houston's cousin Dionne Warwick, who also went to the hotel to try to see the body, have said that she is 'inconsolable'.
The cause of death is not yet known. There were no illegal drugs in the fourth floor hotel room but the previous evening she had 'partied heavily' with friends at the hotel bar, claims TMZ.
News of the death brought a string of public tributes from the music industry. Simon Cowell said Houston was a 'true diva' with 'one of the best voices I have head in my life ever'.
Rihanna tweeted that she was 'in tears' while Mariah Carey said that she was 'heartbroken' over the loss of her friend.
Publicist Kristen Foster confirmed that the singer had died. An unconfirmed report later emerged which said that Houston had been found in her bathtub.
A spokesman for the local police department said that emergency services had been called to the hotel at 3.43pm on Saturday, arriving minutes later.
Officials rushed to the room on the fourth floor where she was staying as a guest, where they found security staff and firemen attempting to revive her using CPR.
Life-saving attempts proved unsuccessful after 20 minutes, and she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm.
Authorities are currently trying to determine a cause of death, according to the spokesman. He said there were 'no obvious signs of foul play and no obvious signs of a cause of death'. It was initially unclear whether or not her death was drug-related, as has been speculated by some.
Some reports said that Houston had been found by her on-off boyfriend Ray J, but that turned out to be mistaken.
Her ex-husband Bobby Brown was said to be 'in and out of crying fits' upon hearing the news - but still appeared on stage on Saturday with his band New Edition, and cried out 'I love you, Whitney!' in the middle of the concert.
A relative of Brown said Houston’s former husband is struggling to cope with the news.
‘He was sobbing, and by the end of the call, I was sobbing, too,’ the family member told People magazine. ‘He's beside himself right now.’
Singer Johnny Gill, one of Brown's New Edition bandmates, is on tour in Memphis with the star. ‘Bobby is struggling and he's devastated,’ he told CNN.
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