In the last few years or so, there have been several high profile celebrity deaths. 2012 didn't take long to get started with Whitney Houston dying today.
She was another whose career spiraled downward after addictions kicked in, and she never fully recovered from it.
Cause of death is unknown, but I'll hazard a guess that it was either suicide, or an unintentional drug overdose. Though she denied using drugs in the last year or two, celebrities aren't exactly the most truthful when it comes to stuff like that.
Actually I heard she was 48, but thats neither here nor there.
Flamez: She was a singer/actress. She starred in "The Bodyguard" and "The Preachers Wife" among a few other movies. She sung that song "I Will Always Love You" and had a high profile abusive marriage to another performer named Bobby Brown.
"...at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side – it's exciting – and then you realise the dark side wins every time if you decide to indulge in it. It's also a completely different way of living when you know that...a different species of person." - Lana Del Rey This User Has Completed