In response to a Freedom of Information
Act request, the FBI has released 128 pages of files on Whitney Houston.
And based at least some of the
documents, it looks like Houston was the subject of an extortion plot in 1992.
In a letter actually marked
"extortion," a woman threatens to release "certain details"
of the singer's "private life" unless she is paid $100,000. A
subsequent note ups the ask to $250,000 and makes a reference to Houston's
"romantic relationships."
The FBI talked to
Houston, her father and a pair of attorneys and the artist admitted
in those conversations that she did discuss "personal things" with
this blackmailing "friend."
There is then a reference to a
confidentiality agreement sent to the woman by John Houston, along with a sum
of money.
The case was closed soon afterward.
Other documents made public were based
around frightening fan mail sent to the artist, including one that prompted
investigators to fly to Brussels and track down a Dutch fan that claimed to
have sent tapes to Houston.
This man accused Whitney of performing
his music and in 1999 the FBI wrote that the individual "pledged there
would be no further attempts on his part to communicate in any way with
Houston."
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