Bobbi Kristina Brown daughter of late music legend Whitney Houston has died aged 22 - six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub.
The aspiring singer was rushed to hospital and placed in a medically-induced coma on January 31 after she was discovered face-down in the water-filled tub at her townhouse in Roswell, Georgia.
She was later transferred to Peachtree Christian Hospice, where her distraught family and loved ones maintained a bedside vigil and eventually said their goodbyes as her condition deteriorated.
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| BOBBI & HER LATE MOTHER |
She passed away, surrounded by her family, at the hospice on Sunday - just three years after her famous mother, singer Whitney Houston, died aged 48 in a bathtub at a hotel in Beverly Hills.
According to TMZ, officials are planning to treat the death of Bobbi Kristina - who was found in the tub with bruises on her face and body, swollen lips and a missing tooth - as a murder investigation.
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| HER ENSTRANGED BOYFRIEN NICK GORDON |
The first person of interest in the case will reportedly be her boyfriend, Nick Gordon.
On Sunday night, Gordon - who was banned from visiting his girlfriend by the Brown and Houston families - was said to be 'out of control with regret and sadness' after learning of her death.
The Houston family had kept largely mum on Bobbi Kristina's condition since Pat Houston said her niece was 'in God's hands' after she was transferred to the end-of-life facility from hospital.
As TMZ reports, the family was prepared to let Bobbi Kristina die at the hospice after doctors gave them no hope of her recovery. Pat Houston and Bobby Brown later agreed to stop her medication.
'Despite the great medical care at numerous facilities, Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition has continued to deteriorate,' read a family statement, made in June.
'As of today, she has been moved into hospice care.'
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| BOBBY BROWN, FATHER OF LATE KRISTINA |
While Bobbi Kristina's relatives had continued to flock to her bedside over the past six months, her ex-boyfriend, Gordon, 25, had been banned from visiting his former lover by her family. A protective order also barred him from being within 200 feet of Pat Houston.
Gordon, who is currently living in Florida and has claimed that he and Bobbi Kristina were married, is also subject to a $10million lawsuit claiming he attacked her on January 31.
Later that day, Brown was found face down and unresponsive in the bathtub in her Atlanta area home. She underwent surgery to replace her breathing tube with a tracheotomy tube in February.
She was originally placed into a medically-induced coma after the horrific discovery, which was made in circumstances eerily reminiscent of her internationally-famous mother's death.
Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub in her Los Angeles hotel just hours before she was due to attend a pre-Grammy awards party in February 2010. Her death was ruled accidental.
However, police are treating Bobbi Kristina's near-drowning, alleged injuries and subsequent death as a criminal investigation - with speculation mounting that Gordon will face murder charges.
Meanwhile, the Houstons are looking for justice through a civil suit.
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| MOTHER & DAUGHTER CULLED UP - BOTH ARE NOW LATE |
A court-appointed representative of Bobbi Kristina has filed an explosive lawsuit against Gordon claiming that he took money from her and abused her physically and emotionally.
Bedilia Hargrove launched the suit in Fulton County Superior Court. The complaint says Gordon routinely transferred large sums of money from Bobbi Kristina's accounts to his without permission.
The suit also accuses Gordon of misrepresenting his relationship with Bobbi Kristina, being violent toward her and taking more than $11,000 from her account after she was found in the bathtub.
Gordon is accused of assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, unjust enrichment and conversion. The suit seeks at least $10 million in damages, it is reported.
The news of Bobbi Kristina's passing on Sunday came just weeks after it was revealed that someone was reportedly shopping around deathbed photos of the aspiring singer for a high price.
The alleged existence of the photo - potentially offered to media outlets by a relative - was first revealed by Bobbi Kristina's paternal aunt Leola Brown, who expressed her disgust on Facebook.
'I'll tell you what! You took that picture thinking you gon get some money for it...and thats gon be it!' she wrote. 'Guess what!????!!!! I will myself if no one else does-see to it that -YOU be revealed!!!!'
She added that she is going to make anyone who has visited Bobbi Kristina - including relatives on both sides of her family and other loved ones - take a lie detector test to track down the culprit.
'EVERY ONE OF YOU ALL WILL TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST!! AND NOT BY YOUR PEOPLE EITHER! YOU AINT GON BE ABLE TO PAY PEOPLE OFF ON THIS ONE! YOU will not do to my niece what YOU did to Whitney! Everyone knows who YOU ARE! Aint nobody stupid!' she wrote.
The image reportedly showed Bobbi Kristina pictured lying in a bed at Peachtree Christian Hospice, which is based in Duluth, Georgia, while an unidentified female relative hovered over her.
Bobbi Kristina, whose father is a Grammy Award winner, was an aspiring singer who began performing with her mother as early as 1999, singing duets of "My Love is Your Love."
In 2003 they recorded another duet of 'Little Drummer Boy' for a holiday album.
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown both struggled with substance abuse and divorced when their daughter was 14. Houston described their 15-year marriage as drug- and alcohol-fueled.
The couple's tempestuous relationship was chronicled in the short-lived television series, 'Being Bobby Brown'.
Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized twice with anxiety after her mother's death.
In 2012 she starred on Lifetime's reality TV show, 'The Houstons: On Our Own' in which Houston's family struggled to recover from the famous singer's death. The same year Bobbi Kristina Brown guest-starred on 'For Better or Worse', a TV series about a married couple.
Just a few weeks before his daughter's death, Bobby Brown welcomed a new baby girl into his family. Brown and his wife Alicia Ethridge welcomed a newborn daughter on July 9.
Ethridge, who wed the R&B star in 2012, was induced at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.
Brown and Etheridge already have a five-year-old son named Cassius.
Brown has a total of six children, including Bobbi Kristina with late ex-wife Whitney Houston.
Brown performed at the Affordable Old School Concert series in Atlanta on Saturday, July 4, where the 46-year-old singer repeatedly apologized to the audience as he stumbled through the set and forgot lyrics and dance moves, TMZ reported.
In a video taken at the gig, the singer could be heard telling the crowd: 'I'm in a different zone.'
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