Music's 6 troubled couples

Posted by Valentine Belue on Monday, May 6, 2024

In late 1992, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were newlyweds, with daughter Bobbi Kristina on the way. Their marriage, and three-year-courtship, had been prime gossip column fodder: Brown had been the bad boy superstar who had risen from the Boston projects, Houston, six years his senior, was a glitzy, good girl diva on the rise, about to star in The Bodyguard. Her wedding dress alone had cost $40,000, and 800 people had been invited to see it.

Although the pair remained married for 15 years, their relationship was scarred by drug abuse, Brown’s repeated run-ins with the police and alleged domestic violence. In 2004, reality TV show Being Bobby Brown offered audiences a look into the Brown’s grisly domestic existence, which cemented Houston’s “diva” image. A messy divorce followed, in 2007. In 2012, Houston was found dead in a bathtub. Her death was mirrored three years later by that of her daughter, who died after being put into a medically induced coma when she was found unconscious in the bath.

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