Whitney Houston FBI Investigation Files Made Public.

Whitney Houston.

The FBI kept a 128-page file on Whitney Houston with details that included an alleged blackmail demand, a payoff by the singer and extensive 11-year monitoring of the star by the Feds.

The file, just released by the FBI, shows many letters to Whitney were sent to government laboratories for analysis and attempts to lift latent fingerprints. More after the cut.

One page is marked “Whitney Houston victim extortion” although the FBI later concludes that no crime was committed and it appears that the singer and the unknown person, who was demanding $250,000, came to a confidential settlement.

Other pages in the file show the price of fame, including one from a man pledging his undying love for the singer, who finishes his love letter by writing,
“I am in love with you. Please believe in life and in love.”

Another letter in Whitney’s file says, “over the last 17 months I have sent, including notes, 66 letters to Miss Whitney.” The writer claimed to have met Whitney’s father and that he agreed to take a package of 37 copies of letters to his daughter.

“When I first fell in love with Miss Whitney I tried to ignore what I felt towards her,” a letter read. “After 5 months I had to do something and so I started writing letters"
The FBI chased down several people who wrote letters that could be construed as threatening. One person interviewed was told this according to the file: “He was informed that his actions constituted a violation of U.S. federal law and that if he continued he would be prosecuted.”

The file also contains copies of envelopes sent to Whitney, receipts from various government labs that analyzed the material and a lot of heavily redacted material, particularly in the alleged extortion attempt which was eventually deemed not a crime.
One letter between a government attorney and special agent says, in part, that a letter was sent to Whitney with the writer conveying this message: “I might hurt someone with some crazy idea…”

The feds found the writer, interviewed him on June 8, 1988 and said ”he advised that he had not intention of threatening or harming Houston.”