Shadowy Hollywood figure Raffels van Exel was named the culprit behind the pictures of Whitney Houston in her casket that were sold to The National Enquirer [click here if you missed that] and now he's being connected to other intimate photos that popped up online shortly after Whitney Houston's death...
From Roger Friedman
Pictures that appeared on TMZ.com, taken right after Whitney died, were also the work of van Exel.
One picture, of a body covered with a white sheet being taken out of the Beverly Hilton Hotel on a gurney, was headlined by TMZ as “Whitney on a gurney.”
The tabloid website will be sad to hear they were fooled. A person who was in the hallway (see picture) tells me the “body” under the white sheet was Bobbi Kristina, Whitney’s daughter. She was taken to Cedars Sinai Hospital twice after her mother died. Bobbi Kristina wrapped the sheet over her head so as not to be seen.
Unfortunately, when Whitney’s body was removed from the hotel much later, it was not under a sheet, but in an official coroner’s body bag–the blue or back kind you see on TV shows that get zipped up. The only person in the group other than family and Houston’s publicist Kristen Foster (seen on the far left) was van Exel.
Then there were pictures that appeared almost simultaneously on TMZ of Houston’s bathtub, food tray, and food cart from her room.
According to my source, only three people had access to Houston’s room at the point those pictures were taken–Pat Houston, her husband, Gary (Whitney’s half-brother), and Raffles van Exel.
