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I came across this recent article....
mods please repost if in wrong place .
Oops apologies, this was already posted in the 'Whitney photos' thread and I missed it.
Exclusive: After Death, Whitney Houston's Personal Belongings Thrown Out In L.A. Dumpsters by Associate
I’ve told you about Raffles van Exel in several stories. Yesterday both “Access Hollywood” and Vanity Fair graciously credited us for stories broken here about van Exel’s dark connection to Whitney Houston. Now one of van Exel’s former business partners, Christine Heathman, of Utah’s Glymed Productions, which sells lines of beauty creams around the country, tells me something no one has heard before.
“Raffles told me that after Whitney died, he personally removed everything from her hotel room. I said, How did you get it out? And he said That day, they took it in suitcases, and it was transferred to black garbage bags. He went throughout Los Angeles and dumped it all in dumpsters. That whatever it was, cosmetics, or whatever, he went throughout dumpsters and dumped them in there.” Could it be true? “I would take a lie detector test. That’s what he told me, that he went throughout Los Angeles and dumped it in dumpsters. I was going to call the Beverly Hills Police Department but I wanted to remain anonymous.”
In the end, Heathman called me because van Exel had sent her an invoice for $4,500 for work he’d never done for her company. Their brief association brought them to an Oscar gifting suite this past February, two weeks after Houston died. van Exel was hawking two oil paintings by Michael Jackson, which she says he claimed were given to her by Michael’s mother.
The Jackson estate is currently suing Michael’s ex-manager, Tohme Tohme, over two warehouses of Jackson’s art. Heathman says van Exel and Tohme are pals, and that she’s met the elusive Tohme.
Heathman also tells me that she doesn’t know whether van Exel sold pictures of Houston’s bathtub and hotel room to TMZ. But she says, “he was on the phone with TMZ constantly. He’d show me the phone so I’d know it was real. One time, we had Quinton Aaron (from “The Blind Side”
in the car and he said, Let’s call TMZ and tell them Quinton has a new sugar mama –meaning me. We thought it was a joke, but he called them.”
More importantly, Heathman confirms that van Exel was very close to Pat Houston, Whitney’s executor and sister in law. “They were very tight,” says Natasha. “I never understood if she was paying him or not. But he actually called me from the funeral. And after, when the picture came out on the cover of the National Enquirer, I asked him about it. And he said it didn’t matter who took the picture and they weren’t going to pursue it. I offered to get him a private investigator to look into it, but he said No.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfr...ngs-thrown-out-in-l-a-dumpsters-by-associate/
mods please repost if in wrong place .
Oops apologies, this was already posted in the 'Whitney photos' thread and I missed it.
Exclusive: After Death, Whitney Houston's Personal Belongings Thrown Out In L.A. Dumpsters by Associate
I’ve told you about Raffles van Exel in several stories. Yesterday both “Access Hollywood” and Vanity Fair graciously credited us for stories broken here about van Exel’s dark connection to Whitney Houston. Now one of van Exel’s former business partners, Christine Heathman, of Utah’s Glymed Productions, which sells lines of beauty creams around the country, tells me something no one has heard before.
“Raffles told me that after Whitney died, he personally removed everything from her hotel room. I said, How did you get it out? And he said That day, they took it in suitcases, and it was transferred to black garbage bags. He went throughout Los Angeles and dumped it all in dumpsters. That whatever it was, cosmetics, or whatever, he went throughout dumpsters and dumped them in there.” Could it be true? “I would take a lie detector test. That’s what he told me, that he went throughout Los Angeles and dumped it in dumpsters. I was going to call the Beverly Hills Police Department but I wanted to remain anonymous.”
In the end, Heathman called me because van Exel had sent her an invoice for $4,500 for work he’d never done for her company. Their brief association brought them to an Oscar gifting suite this past February, two weeks after Houston died. van Exel was hawking two oil paintings by Michael Jackson, which she says he claimed were given to her by Michael’s mother.
The Jackson estate is currently suing Michael’s ex-manager, Tohme Tohme, over two warehouses of Jackson’s art. Heathman says van Exel and Tohme are pals, and that she’s met the elusive Tohme.
Heathman also tells me that she doesn’t know whether van Exel sold pictures of Houston’s bathtub and hotel room to TMZ. But she says, “he was on the phone with TMZ constantly. He’d show me the phone so I’d know it was real. One time, we had Quinton Aaron (from “The Blind Side”
in the car and he said, Let’s call TMZ and tell them Quinton has a new sugar mama –meaning me. We thought it was a joke, but he called them.”More importantly, Heathman confirms that van Exel was very close to Pat Houston, Whitney’s executor and sister in law. “They were very tight,” says Natasha. “I never understood if she was paying him or not. But he actually called me from the funeral. And after, when the picture came out on the cover of the National Enquirer, I asked him about it. And he said it didn’t matter who took the picture and they weren’t going to pursue it. I offered to get him a private investigator to look into it, but he said No.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfr...ngs-thrown-out-in-l-a-dumpsters-by-associate/
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