Daughter hospitalised as peers pay tribute

As Whitney Houston’s musical peers prepared to pay tribute to her memory at last night’s Grammy Awards her teenage daughter had to be hospitalised for the second time since her mother’s death.

The singer, 48, died on Saturday night as she was getting ready for a pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.

It was from this same building her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was rushed by ambulance to hospital last night.

She was treated for stress and anxiety, a source close to the family said, and later released.

Earlier, Ms Brown had been described as hysterical, emotional and inconsolable.

It was not immediately known what caused her mother’s death and police will wait for toxicology results before deciding if it was related to her well-publicised and self-confessed addiction to hard drugs.

The death of Houston cast a pall over the biggest night in American music, the Grammy awards. Organisers had been reluctant to scrap its plans to turn the event into a full-scale tribute to the troubled star. However, in response to criticism, it did opt to recall her association with the awards ceremony and her contribution to the music industry.

A special tribute led by singer Jennifer Hudson was being arranged ahead of the show.

Co-host Dave Koz began the proceedings by recalling the “great legacy of Miss Whitney Houston. She’s in our hearts and our minds.”

Houston, herself a Grammy-winner, was found in her hotel room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton on Saturday night.

Police said medics unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate her. She was pronounced dead at 3.55pm local time.

Police said there were no “obvious signs” of any criminal intent in relation to her death.

Houston, who some speculated was on the brink of bankruptcy, was pictured last week looking dishevelled and disorientated as she left a Hollywood nightclub with her daughter after performing at a pre-Grammy party.

She had previously attended rehearsals for the Grammys.

Mariah Carey, who recorded the duet ‘When You Believe’ with Houston in 1998, wrote on Twitter: “Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston.”