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Whitney Houston FBI Files

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Whitney Houston FBI Fileshttp://www.paperlessarchives.com/whitney-hoston-fbi-files.html

128 pages of FBI files related to the singer and actress Whitney Elizabeth

Houston (1963-2012), released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information

Act.

In the 1992 film "The Bodyguard" starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner,

Houston plays a famous singer who is plagued by death threats from an

unknown stalker. Houston was able to draw from her own life not just as a

international superstar, but as the FBI files show, as a victim of threats against

her well being.

However, the film was much more exciting than real life as presented in these

files. The files mostly dating between 1988 and 1992, cover the investigations

into two threatening people and one extortion attempt against Houston.

In one case a man in Vermont became annoyed that his "love" for Whitney

Houston was unrequited. The files contain copies of several of the letters and a

summary of an interview conducted by FBI agents of the subject at his home.

The man wrote numerous letters to Whitney Houston and members of her

family. The text of these letters expressed the obsessed man's love for Miss

Houston.

One of these letters written to John Houston, Whitney Houston's father, stated

"I might hurt someone with some crazy idea and not realize how stupid an idea it

was until after it was done." When interviewed by the FBI on June 8, 1988, the

subject said that he had no intention of threatening or harming Whitney

Houston. He said that the crazy idea was his considering making his love for

Houston public through the "National Enquirer" or on "The Phil Donahue Show".

He said he believed this "crazy idea" would have hurt Houston's reputation, so

he decided not to follow through on it.

In a second investigation an attorney for Whitney Houston contacted federal

authorities after a former associate of Houston attempted to extort $250,000 to

not reveal personal information concerning Houston. The FBI concluded that the
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actions by the person, who Houston described as a friend, in an FBI interview did

not constitute a Federal crime.

The third investigation involved threatening correspondences from a man

residing in Holland, who claimed that Houston recorded many of his songs thathe sent to Houston on audio cassette. The man also claimed to be the President

of Europe, responsible for the end of apartheid in South Africa, and to be the

owner of Brazil, which he bought for $66 billion. An FBI legal attach in Holland

interviewed the subject and warned him that his actions constituted a violation

of U.S. federal law and that if he continued he would be prosecuted. The Dutch

man pledged there would be no further attempts on his part to communicate in

any way with Houston.


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June 28, 1988

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I IDear Mr. Ter-wi.11iger:

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1#' ... 01/26/1998) FEDERAL BUREAU O F INVESTIGATIONPrecedence: PRIORITYTo: Criminal I n v es t i g a t i v e

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Case ID #: ..\3( d ' )9A-NK-98794 Pen lngTi t l e :

WHITNEY HOUSTON - VICTIM,MENDHAM, N.J .EXTORTION;00: NK

Date: 02/24/1999IRU-I, IROSB?,-'RA-1; p A ~ I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~

Synopsis: Lead coverage, in te rv iew of sub jec t .Reference: 9A-NK-98794 S e r i a l 6Enclosures: Enclosed fo r Newark i s one o r i g i n a l and two cop iesof a FD-302 r e f l e c t i ng the in te rv iew of sub jec t on 02/05/99 .Also enclosed a re the o r i g i n a l notes generated by the in te rv iewand a photograph of the sub jec t .Deta i l s : As reques ted by Newark, the sub jec t , was in te rv iewed on0 2 / 0 5 / 1 9 ~ 9 regard ing t he th rea t en ing l e t t e r s and t apes which hesent to Whitney Houston in th e U.S. The sub jec t admit ted sendingaudio t apes to Houston but did not admit to sending l e t t e r s . Hewas informed t ha t h is ac t ions cons t i t 'u ted , a v io l a t i on of u. S.f edera l law and t ha t if he continued he would be prosecu ted . Hepledged the re would be no fu r the r at tempts on h is p a r t tocommunicate in any way with Houston.

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