A bombshell revelation claims Whitney Houston was blackmailed for 23 years and was forced to pay $250,000 to hide her lesbian affair.
According to the New York Post ,Author Ian Halperin makes the claim in his unauthorized biography released this week, 'Whitney & Bobbi Kristina: The Deadly Price of Fame'.
Citing a FBI report, theNY Post says an attorney sought to have Houston pay him $250,000 back in 1992.The lawyer told an FBI agent that the info included “knowledge of intimate details regarding Whitney Houston’s romantic relationships and will go public with the information.”
According to the report, Houston’s father, John Houston, “settled the matter by sending a confidentiality agreement almost immediately,” although it was “unclear how much money was paid to silence the person and whether he met the initial demand for $250,000.”
She was said to be in a relationship with female pal Robyn Crawford .That same year, Whitney married singer Bobby Brown. On the day of the wedding, Halperin notes, the bride gave Crawford a black Porsche “as a token of their friendship.”
In the book, Kevin Ammons, a former Whitney bodyguard,said that John Houston was extremely unhappy with Crawford and worried that she would go public with the relationship.
According to Ammons, Whitney's father offered to pay him to threaten Crawford. He told him,
“We’ve got to do something about that motherf–king b—h. She’s ruining my family and driving everybody nuts. She’s lost her grip on reality. I’ll pay you $6,000 if you put the fear of God in her.”
Ammons told Halperin he refused the request and that John Houston then “warned the bodyguards to ‘keep an eye’ on Robyn.”
This past January, Whitney’s daughter, Elsewhere in the book, Halperin offers a theory on what happened to Bobbi Kristina, was found unconscious floating in a tub of cold....water — an eerie echo of Whitney Houston, who was found dead in a bathtub with cocaine in her system in 2012
