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Bobbi
Kristina
laid to
rest
amid
family
drama
By The
Associated
Press
ALPHARETTA,
GA - R&B
singer
Bobby
Brown
emerged
from the
funeral
of his
daughter
Bobbi
Kristina
Brown,
staring
toward
the
ground
before
lifting
his head
up and
briefly
gazing
at the
sky.
Dressed
in all
black,
the
grieving
Brown
was one
of the
first to
exit the
tension-filled
private
memorial
service
for
Bobbi
Kristina
on
Saturday
at the
St.
James
United
Methodist
Church
in
Alpharetta,
just
north of
Atlanta.
Twenty-two-year-old
Bobbi
Kristina
was the
only
child
between
Brown
and the
late
megastar
singer
Whitney
Houston.
Bobbi
Kristina
died in
hospice
care
July 26,
about
six
months
after
she was
found
face-down
and
unresponsive
in a
bathtub
at her
townhome.
Several
celebrities
showed
up for
the
funeral
including
filmmaker
Tyler
Perry,
Grammy-winning
R&B
singer
Monica
and
Atlanta
Mayor
Kasim
Reed.
In the
middle
of the
service
Bobby
Brown's
sister
Leolah
Brown
walked
out of
the
church
and
spoke to
reporters
gathered
outside.
She said
she was
angry
because
Pat
Houston
was
speaking
at the
funeral.
Pat
Houston
is the
sister-in-law
and
former
manager
for the
late
Whitney
Houston.
"I told
her that
Whitney
is going
to haunt
her from
the
grave,"
Leolah
Brown
told
reporters
outside
the
church.
She
suggested
that the
feud
between
the
Houstons
and the
Browns
was far
from
over.
"It's
just
getting
started,"
she said
before
going
back
inside
the
church.
An email
to the
Houston
family
rep was
not
returned.
For
years,
there's
been a
longstanding
rift
between
the
families
of the
young
woman's
famous
mother
and
father.
Bobby
Brown
briefly
appeared
at
Houston's
funeral
three
years
ago,
saying
he and
his
children
were
seated
but
asked
repeatedly
to move.
Brown
said he
left
because
he
didn't
want to
create a
scene,
but was
upset.
Bobbi
Kristina's
death
was
grimly
similar
to the
way her
mother
had died
three
years
earlier.
Houston's
assistant
found
the
singer's
lifeless
body
face-down
in a
foot of
water in
her
bathtub
at the
Beverly
Hilton
Hotel
just
before
the
Grammy
Awards
in 2012.
Authorities
found
prescription
drugs in
the
suite,
and
evidence
of heart
disease
and
cocaine
in her
body,
but
determined
her
death
was an
accidental
drowning.
Bobbi
Kristina
was
found in
the
townhome
she
shared
with
Nick
Gordon,
an
orphan
three
years
older,
whom
Houston
had
raised
as her
own.
Bobbi
Kristina
referred
to him
as her
husband.
A police
report
earlier
this
year
described
the
incident
as a
drowning,
and
authorities
are
investigating
her
death.
Relations
between
Gordon
and
other
relatives
have
soured
over the
past few
years,
especially
after
Bobbi
Kristina
was
hospitalized.
A
protective
order
barred
him from
being
within
200 feet
of Pat
Houston.
And a
feud
erupted
over
whether
Gordon
could
visit
Bobbi
Kristina
while
she
stayed
in the
hospital.
Fulton
County
District
Attorney
Paul
Howard
said he
and his
office
are
interested
in
reviewing
the
investigative
file to
determine
whether
any
charges
will be
filed.
Leolah
Brown
said she
believes
Gordon
was
involved
in the
death of
her
niece.
Lawyers
for
Gordon
declined
to
comment.
Bobbi
Kristina
was
raised
in the
shadow
of her
famous
parents'
hugely
public
life.
She
appeared
alongside
the
couple
in 2005
on the
Bravo
reality
show
"Being
Bobby
Brown,"
which
showed
her
parents
fighting,
swearing
and
making
court
appearances.
She
attended
award
shows
with her
mother
and
father,
walked
red
carpets
with
them and
sang in
Central
Park
with
Houston
as
adoring
fans
watched.
Houston
and
Brown
were
married
15
years.
Their
tumultuous
relationship
ended in
2007.
On
Saturday,
she was
remembered
in a
private
service.
A hearse
carrying
Bobbi
Kristina
arrived
nearly
three
hours
ahead of
the
service.
Four men
dressed
in black
suits
carried
the
coffin
into the
church.
Eight
police
motorcycles
escorted
three
stretch
limousines,
carrying
mourners
to the
church
in
Alpharetta
ahead of
the
service.
A
procession
of
dozens
of cars
followed.
Security
was
heavy
outside
the
church.
About 75
members
of the
media
stood
behind a
barricade
at the
entrance
of the
church
parking
lot,
while
more
than two
dozen
onlookers
were
just a
few feet
behind
them.
Alpharetta
police
say they
were
assisted
by more
than a
dozen
state
troopers
to
manage
traffic
and shut
down
lanes to
accommodate
parking
around
the
church
where
the
service
was
being
held.
Bobbi
Kristina
was the
sole
heir of
her
mother's
estate.
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
Houston's
legacy
by
singing,
acting
and
dancing.
But her
career
never
took
off.
In her
short
life,
Bobbi
Kristina
became a
social
media
sensation,
sending
more
than
11,000
tweets
and
attracting
164,000
followers.
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