Sadly singer and actress Whitney Houston, winner of six Grammy Awards including record of the year for “I Will Always Love You” and album of the year for “The Bodyguard” died on Saturday afternoon at age 48.
A Beverly Hills police officer told reporters that emergency assistance received a call from the Beverly Hilton at around 3.20pm and the singer was pronounced dead at 3.55pm.
It’s now been revealed that the singer’s life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Hotel, but it could be weeks before investigators know exactly why she died.
Coroner’s officials say they will not release any information on an autopsy performed Sunday at the request of police detectives investigating the singer’s death.
Houston was found in the bathtub of her room, but Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter declined to say anything more about the room’s condition or any evidence investigators recovered.
But law enforcement sources tell CBS News that while there were no illegal substances found in Houston’s hotel room, there were prescription drugs.
Authorities said the most likely theories for Houston’s death is that she died of a heart attack or a prescription drug overdose, reports state.
Tributes have been flowing in from other well known celebs since the singer’s untimely death.
‘Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston’ said Mariah Carey.
Dolly Parton, who originally wrote on of Whitney’s greatest hits I Will Always Love You, said, ‘mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston’.
Singer Aretha Franklin, who was Whitney’s godmother, said: ‘I just can’t talk about it now. It’s so stunning and unbelievable’.
