LOS ANGELES (AP) - Coroner's officials say they will not release any information on Whitney Houston's autopsy at the request of police detectives investigating the singer's death. Capt. John Kades says an autopsy on Houston was schedule Sunday but that a security hold prevents him from releasing any details on its status or whether any probable cause of death has been established. Beverly Hills Police Lt. Mark Rosen said Sunday that his agency may release more details about Houston's death Saturday afternoon on Monday, but it will depend on whether detectives feel comfortable releasing any information. A member of Houston's entourage found the 48-year-old singer unresponsive in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Saturday, just hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala.
UPDATE: CNN reports that Houston's body was found in her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel by her bodyguard. Attempts to resuscitate the singer were made by emergency personnel but she did not respond. Her body still remains at the hotel. Beverly Hills Police Lt. Mark Rosen said that Houston was pronounced dead 3:55PM PST in her room on the fourth floor. "There were no obvious signs of any criminal intent at this time," Rosen states. Reports also reveal that Whitney Houston's mother spoke to her 20 to 35 minutes before she died. Veteran singer Dionne Warwick, Houston's cousin, was in contact with her Saturday, speaking about which table they would sit at during Clive Davis' annual Grammy party later that evening. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear. At her peak in the 1980s and '90s, Houston the golden girl of the music industry and one of the world's best-selling artists. Among her hits were "How Will I Know," ''Saving All My Love for You" and "I Will Always Love You." She won multiple Grammys including album and record of the year.Her success carried her beyond music to movies like "The Bodyguard." But by the end of her career, drug use took its toll as her record sales plummeted and her voice became raspy and hoarse.
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Davie Makeup Artist Recalls Whitney Houston’s Final Film
MIAMI (CBS4) – Whitney Houston never made it to the premiere of her new movie “Sparkle.” It was slated for release in August. Davie resident Marietta Carter-Narcisse knows how much Houston was looking forward to the accomplishment. Carter-Narcisse worked as the make-up artist on the films set in Detroit back in November. “I was so nervous, not even star struck, per say but just nervous because I was going into doing 1960′s makeup with like Whitney Houston,” she recalled.But Carter-Narcisse said Houston didn’t turn out to be the overly demanding diva that she expected. “She greeted me with open arms the first day I met her,” remembered Carter-Narcisse. “Hugged and kissed me like I had known her for years.” Houston not only starred in the movie but also served as the film’s Executive Producer. Dual roles she easily took over despite her long break from the industry.“You don’t expect to see that caliber when there’s been such a huge break, that caliber performance and I’m telling you it was mind boggling,” she said. “She sang in the church, one of the scenes in the church, oh there was not a dry eye left in that church when we were finished filming.”News of Houston’s death hit Carter-Narcisse hard after spending more than 80 hours a week on the set with the pop icon.“Knowing the person from a distance is one thing,” she said. “But when you actually touch them and work with them you know and so many hours of the day its just a whole different feeling it feels like a part of you is gone too.”Details emerging suggest Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her hotel room with prescription drugs also found in the room. Yet Carter-Narcisse said she doubts the singer would have harmed herself.“Maybe she was just trying to relax because tonight and last night were huge pressure nights,” she said. “I mean but I i find it.. I dont sense drugs in the sense of you know recreational drugs or anything like that I don’t see that… just not from the person that I met and saw.”Nearly 20 years before “Sparkle”, Whitney Houston was making her first movie, “The Bodyguard.” Some of the most famous scenes were filmed at the Fountainbleau in Miami Beach. At the time Lisa Cole was a publicist there.“It was Whitney’s first film and she was a little nervous and a little tired,” remembered Cole. “But she was very nice and very gracious.”Parts of the movie made were made in a penthouse room upstairs, but it was downstairs that she belted out the famous song I Will Always Love You in the ballroom.“I’m standing next to Kevin Costner and David Foster and she starts singing and we all just looked at each other and went oh my God, I mean wow,” said Cole. “She was remarkable. She finishes the song we’re all with goose bumps and just with our jaws dropping.”Cole says they made Houston do it five times just because the crew was so mesmerized.
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