Hot! The National Enquirer Sparks Outrage With Whitney Houston Open

The hearse holding our body of singer Whitney Houston departs the particular Whigham Funeral Home on Feb. 18, 2012 with Newark, N.J., en route to your exclusive funeral in the New Hope Baptist Church.

(Credit: Getty Images) (CBS) The National Enquirer is actually causing a stir soon after establishing a photo purported that they are Whitney Houston with a good amenable casket.

The handle image is parked , together this caption: "Whitney: The Last Photo! Inside Her Private Viewing."

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It's a vivid switch also for that Enquirer, specifically with the small constraints Houston's family applied the particular media through the delayed singer's wake as well as funeral. Several marketing shops have because Enquirer obtained that still-unverified shot.

In the particular image, Houston is seen within a purple costume which includes a brooch pinned to her chest. According for the Enquirer headline, that singer ended up being hidden donning $500,000 worth of charms along with rare metal men's on your ex feet.

In reaction to that reaction, founder Mary Beth Wright instructed FoxNews.com , "I thought the item was beautiful," referring to your photo.

Still, it isn't really at the first try this Enquirer possesses shocked readers. In 1977, the idea released a photograph connected with Elvis Presley within his casket. Three several years later, the particular magazine taken go well with right after John Lennon's assassination.

Houston on Saturday in your ex hometown connected with Newark, N.J. some sort of few days following the girl ended up being identified useless inside her accommodation for the Beverly Hilton. She was 48.

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