After a crazy 14-year marriage marked by drug arrests and stints in rehab, Whitney Houston is divorcing Bobby Brown.
The pop singer filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court this week, a month after filing for legal separation from Bobby Brown, Houston’s publicist Nancy Seltzer said Tuesday.
The documents could not be obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press and Brown’s attorney Phaedra Parks declined to comment.
Whitney Houston, 43, had asked in her separation papers that she be granted custody of the couple’s 13-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina, and that Bobby Brown, 37, be allowed visitation rights.
The couple wed in 1992, with Houston at the height of her fame as a Grammy-winning superstar known for such hits as “I Will Always Love You.”
Brown won acclaim for his gritty R&B songs as a one-time member of the boy band New Edition.
During their marriage, Brown was arrested for drugs and alcohol and Houston entered drug rehabilitation programs twice.
In an attempt to clean up her public image, Houston stepped out last month for an event in Beverly Hills with cousin
Dionne Warwick and mogul Clive Davis, with whom she is working on a new album.
Brown, who also has two teenage children with a Massachusetts woman, recently paid up to $11,000 in delinquent child support after being threatened with arrest two weeks ago if he stepped back into the state.
Brown’s attorney has said he was having a “very difficult” time due to the separation initiated by Houston.
Such a trainwreck
she shw was a train wreck
oops–turing off the followup option
Watched her Birmingham perf on youtune. The “I Will Always Love You” performance bombed in a few places, but nowhere near as awful as the press is making out. Hey! some of the other songs eg ‘I will always love you’ were good. Admire her for not lip sync-ing. Go Whitney! we’re rooting for ya!
You all should leave her alone, you people probably were once on drugs too! So like, yeah…
damn whitney druged up damn that said shat whitney turned bobby on them drugs bt i dont care who turned who its they should of stopped when they started to look like wat whitney look like on here damn thats a shame….now they daught was doing a little of it…
It amazes me how your decisions can cause an impact on the world. I admired this woman for her god given talent, the way she carried herself, her charisma, her walk, her smile. She was the perfect example of what a woman should be like. She really broke my heart. I was praying for her. Then should managed to bounce back and in that process she was murdered.
Murdered?? She killed herself by her continuing her addiction to cocaine. Her decision.