Personal life of Whitney Houston

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Whitney Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) spent much of her life in the public eye throughout her career. Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in neighboring East Orange, Houston was under the musical tutelage of her mother Cissy Houston at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church where, in her preteens, she began performing solos to prepare herself for show business. Though raised Baptist, Houston spent much of her schooling at Mount Saint Dominic Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in nearby Caldwell, where she subsequently graduated from in 1981. During this period, Houston engaged in her first sexual relationship with a woman, Robyn Crawford, with whom she met as a fellow counselor of a children's summer camp at East Orange in 1980. The romance ended in February 1982 after Houston told Crawford they couldn't continue the relationship due to the negative attention it might receive as Houston was seeking a recording deal; the two maintained a close platonic relationship, and later...

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