Whitney Houston, Pop Superstar, Is Dead at 48

Whitney Houston, the multimillion-selling singer who emerged in the 1980s as one of her generation’s greatest R & B voices, only to deteriorate through years of cocaine use and an abusive marriage, died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, California ... read more here, here, here, and here 

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