Two years ago news leaked that Whitney Houston had once been blackmailed over her suspected romance with personal assistant Robyn Crawford [click here if you missed that].
Now Canadian investigative journalist Ian Halperin is dredging up the old dirt for his new book…
From Page Six
On the eve of the premiere of the Whitney Houston movie “The Bodyguard” movie in 1992, a Chicago lawyer tried to extort $250,000 from her, according to a heavily redacted FBI file.
The extortion attempt, revealed in “Whitney & Bobbi Kristina: The Deadly Price of Fame” (Gallery Books) by Ian Halperin, came at a time when Houston was besieged by rumors about a lesbian affair with her personal assistant and longtime friend, Robyn Crawford.
The lawyer told an FBI agent that the info included “knowledge of intimate details regarding Whitney Houston’s romantic relationships and will go public with the information.”
According to the report, Houston’s father, John Houston, “settled the matter by sending a confidentiality agreement almost immediately,” although it was “unclear how much money was paid to silence the person and whether he met the initial demand for $250,000.”
