Singer's daughter, 22, dies
DULUTH, Ga. — Born and raised in the shadow of fame and litigation, shattered by the loss of her mother, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown was overwhelmed by the achievements and demons of others before she could begin to figure out who she was.
Brown died Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Ga., about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in the suburban Atlanta townhome she shared with Nick Gordon, the man she called her husband. She was 22.
“Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away July, 26 2015, surrounded by her family. She is finally at peace in the arms of God. We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months,” Kristen Foster, a representative for the Houston family, said Sunday.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Brown’s death Sunday night.
Police said she was found Jan. 31 at her Roswell home. A police report described it as a “drowning.”
Brown was the only child between Houston and singer Bobby Brown.
She was hospitalized for months in Atlanta — eventually being placed in hospice care — after being found in a manner grimly similar to the way her megastar mother died three years earlier. Gordon said at the time it seemed Brown wasn’t breathing and lacked a pulse before help arrived.
Brown — the sole heir of her mother’s estate — did have dreams.
She identified herself on Twitter as “Daughter of Queen WH,” “Entertainer/Actress” with William Morris & Co., and “LAST of a dying breed.” She told Oprah Winfrey shortly after her mother’s death in 2012 that she wanted to carry on her mother’s legacy by singing, acting and dancing. But her career never took off.
Relations between Gordon and some other relatives soured over the past year after Brown was hospitalized. A protective order barred him from being within 200 feet of Pat Houston, Brown’s aunt. A feud erupted over whether Gordon could visit Brown while she stayed in the hospital.
