In response to a Freedom of knowledge Act request, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a 128-page report into the lifetime of singer Whitney Houston.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the report was section of an FBI extortion case that was closed before any charges were filed. The document shows that Houston was blackmailed in 1992, with a letter from a lady stating that details of her private life will be revealed if $100,000, and later $250,000 weren’t paid.
Houston had told the FBI that the girl was “a pal.” Houston’s father, John Houston, later sent the girl a “confidentiality agreement” and paid her an amount of cash which was redacted within the FBI document.
The document also contains letters from adoring fans, a few of that have been of interest to the FBI since the agency was afraid certain fans might hurt someone as a result of their obsession. FBI agents were compelled to interview several of those obsessive fans, once going so far as Brussels, Belgium. Inside the cases detailed, these fans were determined not to have broken the law and failed to seem to have actual plans for hurting anyone or extorting Houston.
Houston died just over twelve months ago, on February 11, 2012. She was found unconscious in a tub in her room on the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The reason for death was later determined to be an accidental drowning regarding heavy drug use.