Singer Whitney Houston will file for divorce from husband Bobby Brown. Houston's rep Nancy Seltzer confirms to TMZ that Houston intends to divorce Brown, and that filing for a separation is just a "legal technicality" on the way to divorce. Seltzer did not divulge any further details concerning where or when the filings were made, and calls to Brown's lawyer were not returned.
Houston and Brown have been married for 12 years and have one daughter, Bobbi Kristina.
Whitney was spotted out last night with producer Clive Davis at the 15th Annual Ella Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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Meanwhile six songs have already been lined up for the singer to record and music bosses are confident Whitney's recent troubles will not stop the LP from being a success.
J Records manager Clive Davis said: "Whitney is Whitney and there's nobody like her.
"It'll be Whitney, not somebody reaching for a current trend, that's for sure."
The full extent of the pop diva's apparent troubles was exposed earlier this year when her sister-in-law Tina Brown released photographs of her bathroom littered with drug paraphernalia, including a crack-smoking pipe and what appeared to be cocaine-covered spoons.
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Recent reports have suggested that Karrine Steffans, the self-proclaimed "Video Vixen," may have caused the impending break-up of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's marriage. But a source with knowledge of the relationship tells TMZ that it's Brown who has sought out Steffans for moral and financial support: He stays at her L.A. home "frequently" and Karrine actually ponies up for Bobby's pre-paid cell phone.
According to the TMZ source, there is in fact no romance between Brown and Steffans, and that outsiders are creating that illusion because of her past, in which she was known as "Supahead" by legions of R&B and hip-hop artists to whom she provided sexual services on the sets of their videos. She wrote a book about her experiences, "Confessions of a Video Vixen," which was a New York Times bestseller.
During the summer, at a concert Brown gave with fellow '80s artists Bell Biv Devoe and En Vogue at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, Steffans was backstage and in fact took Brown home in her car. Brown had told the audience that he and Whitney were on the rocks and that he needed a "tenderoni" to take home.
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