Bobbi Kristina’s outraged aunt hunts down ‘extended relative’ who took photo of her 22-year-old niece on hospice death bed – and is now trying to sell it to media for $100,000
The outraged aunt of Bobbi Kristina Brown is hunting down a relative who captured a photo of the 22-year-old on her death bed – and is now trying to sell it to media outlets for more than $100,000.
In the image, Bobbi Kristina is reportedly pictured lying in a bed at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Georgia – where she is expected to live out her final days – while a female relative hovers over her.
The picture was snapped by an ‘extended family member’ and subsequently offered to several news sites and magazines for a staggering price. Some outlets have shown interest, TMZ reported.
Daily Mail Online has not been solicited by the unidentified relative, but would decline the offer.
On Friday night, Bobbi Kristina’s paternal aunt, Leolah Brown, took to Facebook to express her disgust that a family member had captured a photo of her aspiring actress niece in such a vulnerable state.
‘I’ll tell you what! You took that picture thinking you gon get some money for it…and thats gon be it! …guess what!????!!!! I will myself if no one else does-see to it that -YOU be revealed!!!!’ she wrote.
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.
Entertainment Tonight revealed on Friday that it had been offered the in-hospice image for a price in excess of $100,000. However, the news show declined the offer, deeming the photo ‘unseemly’.
It comes as relatives and loved ones of Bobbi Kristina were joined by at least two Georgia state troopers on Friday as they continued to hold a vigil at her bedside at the Duluth-based hospice.
Bobbi Kristina’s maternal aunt, Pat Houston, who hid her eyes with sunglasses, and uncle Gary Houston, were seen looking somber as they left the hospice after visiting their unresponsive niece.
They were joined at the facility by close family friend Uncle Ray – the beloved bodyguard of the late Whitney Houston – who donned a red baseball cap, a red polo top and black pants for the outing.
After their visit, the trio and another relative were captured speaking to at least two armed troopers outside the hospice’s front doors. The officials’ presence could have been down to the bedside photo.
However, in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, a source close to the family said relatives have been ‘beefing up’ security and law enforcement over fears Bobbi Kristina’s death is ‘imminent’.
‘She barely has any signs of life, hardly any vitals, the source told the news station. ‘Even law enforcement have been called because the families have been told that death is now imminent.
‘They want to make sure photographers don’t get pictures of her body being removed.’
Some reports suggest that the facility’s entrance may be covered in a tent to protect relatives.
There was no sign of the Brown family at the hospice on Friday.
However, Bobbi Kristina’s father, Bobby Brown, and her paternal aunt, Tina, have been seen visiting the facility numerous times since she was transferred there from an Atlanta hospital last week.
The daughter of Whitney Houston has ‘continued to deteriorate’, according to her aunt Pat, since she was found face-down and unconscious in a bath tub at her Atlanta home in January.
She had spent the last five months fighting for her life in Emory University Hospital prior to her transfer to the 16-bed hospice. Last week, the aspiring actress’s organs were said to be failing.
Pat Houston flew her niece to Chicago to see specialists before she was eventually transferred to Peachtree Christian Hospice, which describes itself as ‘A Loving Place of Rest, Comfort and Hope’.
The Chicago trip was Pat Houston’s final effort to see if there was any way Bobbi Kristina could be saved, People Magazine confirmed.
An insider told Fox News that actor Tyler Perry, a longtime friend of the Brown family, helped Pat take Bobbi Kristina to Chicago to see doctors that both he and Oprah had recommended.
The trip was also largely meant for Bobby Brown, to prove that ‘there was no hope’ and that everything possible had been done to try and save his daughter.
‘It seems that he had to get a certain amount of confirmation before really letting go,’ the source told Fox News. ‘That trip is what convinced him to allow to take her off her meds.’
While Bobbi Kristina’s relatives have continued to flock to her bedside, her ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon, 25, has been banned from visiting his former lover by her distraught family.
He is also subject to a $40million lawsuit claiming he attacked her on the day she was discovered unresponsive in a bath tub back in January at the home they shared in Roswell.
Gordon is also accused of stealing $11,00 from Bobbi Kristina’s bank accounts while she was in a medically-induced coma – and could find himself the subject of a murder investigation if she dies.
There is also a claim in the lawsuit that Bobbi was set to meet with a friend and reveal her problems with Gordon around the same time she was found unresponsive on January 31 at her home.
Gordon was spotted running away from reporters on Thursday when asked about Bobbi Kristina.
The Fulton County District Attorney’s office also recently announced it would be looking into the January 31 incident, currently being investigated by the Roswell Police Department.
Earlier this week, it emerged that a Georgia man is seeking more than $730,000 damages from Bobbi Kristina over a car crash that occurred only three days before she was found unresponsive.
In the lawsuit, Russell Eckerman, 41, alleges that Bobbi Kristina was speeding and tailgating a car before she lost control of her vehicle and collided into his Ford Taurus on January 27.
He claims to have suffered multiple spinal, skull and facial fractures and had to undergo extensive surgeries following the accident, according to legal papers obtained by CBS News.
The papers also state Eckerman had to be placed in a medically-induced coma.
Police determined Bobbi Kristina lost control of her 2005 Liberty Jeep when she blew a right rear tire, where a nail was discovered, the New York Daily News reports.
Eckerman is also suing the Ford Motor Company, claiming his airbag did not deploy properly and his seatbelt was defective. The suit was filed against Bobbi Kristina through her guardians, specifically father Bobby Brown as well as her aunt Pat and her conservator Bedelia Hardgrove.
Bobbi Kristina’s discovery in a bath tub in January was eerily reminiscent of her mother’s death.
Singer 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 and alleged injuries as a criminal inquiry – with speculation mounting that Gordon will face charges.
SOURCE: DailyMail
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