Whitney Houston found dead in bath with prescription drugs nearby
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Celebrity websites are claiming that the 48-year-old may have drowned in the bath and that while there were no illegal drugs in her room there were pills nearby.
She was said to have been found by one of her entourage in the bath and when she showed no signs of life they called the emergency services.
Paramedics arriving on the scene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel tried to resuscitate her for 20 minutes but it did not work and she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm.
The details were revealed by the TMZ website which claims to have spoken to hotel employees and to the police on the scene.
Their sources said there was no obvious signs of foul play, but the Beverley Hills police were carrying out a full investigation
The death of the 48-year-old Grammy award-winning star, who was one of the world's bestselling artists in the 1980s and 1990s, was confirmed by her publicist, leaving the entertainment industry and fans around the world in shock.
Los Angeles police said the troubled singer, who had battled with drug addiction, was found in her hotel room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton late yesterday.
Detectives said paramedics unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate the singer, who was pronounced dead at 3.55pm local time.
Houston was due to appear at the LA gala of music's biggest occasion – the Grammy Awards – later tonight and had also been at rehearsals for the show, coaching singers Brandy and Monica.
It is believed she had been due to perform at the annual pre-Grammy party of her long-time mentor, record producer Clive Davis, at the Beverly Hilton, but was found hours before it began.
Police said there were no "obvious signs" of any criminal intent in relation to Houston's death.
Lieutenant Mark Rosen, from Beverly Hills Police, told the BBC the star was pronounced dead at the hotel.
He said her family had been informed and the matter would be passed to the coroner following the police probe.
Organisers of the Grammys have said Houston will be remembered at tonight's awards in a tribute by Jennifer Hudson.
Following the news, fellow celebrities and contemporaries lined up to pay their respects, with describing the star as a "legend" and an "icon".
Mariah Carey, who recorded the duet When You Believe with Houston in 1998, said she was "heartbroken".
"Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston," she wrote on Twitter.
"My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world.
"She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth."
Music mogul Simon Cowell described Houston as "one of the greatest singers of all time", and said he expected tonight's Grammys to become a tribute to the "trailblazer" and "legend".
He told Heart FM: " ... you have to remember a lot of the people who are going to be getting awards at the Grammys, they owe an awful lot of their success, I believe, to Whitney, because Whitney was a trailblazer. It's a night she deserves to be remembered fondly."
Houston appeared on the X Factor in Britain in 2009 following an invite from Cowell.
"We all knew that she had issues and I last met her when she came on X Factor in England when she was doing her comeback album and you could sense at the time there were a still few problems, but she was a delight to work with on the day, she was very professional, she was kind to everyone around her, she probably wasn't altogether there, but it was still Whitney Houston and you know that you are in a presence of a legend and I will never forget that day."
"There are so few people like her in the world. They are a rarefied breed, these are true superstar, legendary divas and I say divas in the nicest possible way. She had one of the greatest voices I have ever heard in my life, ever." ....
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