Houston paid off would-be blackmailer who threatened to reveal love-life details

Whitney Houston paid off a woman who blackmailed her about her love life.

The late 'I Will Always Love You' singer - who died aged 48 as a result of accidental drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use" in February 2012 - was the subject of an alleged extortion plot at the height of her fame when the unnamed blackmailer threatened to reveal "intimate details" about her personal life unless she was paid $100,000, according to files released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).