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National Enquirer Publishes Unauthorized Photo Of Whitney Houston’s Body

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This week, the National Enquirer published a story on Whitney Houston‘s funeral that included an unauthorized, page-one photo of the late singer lying in an open casket at New Jersey’s Whigham Funeral Home.

Our celebrity-focused sister site, Gossip Cop, explains the hypocrisy at play in the National Enquirer‘s decision:

RELATED: The Daily Show’s Lewis Black Goes Off On Whitney Houston Death Coverage

The tabloid says Houston was “finally at peace after a tumultuous and troubled life in the spotlight.”

But the Enquirer invaded that “peace” by sticking cameras into the casket.

The mag adds, “This was the emotional private viewing that her legions of fans never saw, a time for Whitney’s loved ones to say a heartfelt goodbye with their tears and prayers.”

And the Enquirer trampled on those loved ones’ final moments with Houston, turning what should have been an out-of-view private time for reflection into tabloid spectacle.

h/t Gossip Cop

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  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The price of celebrity expanding even after writing the last check.  

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Uncalled for and a private moment should be kept private!!

  • sid_id

    The National Enquirer has always been a sleaze bag rag, always will be.

  • Anonymous

    Even in death the celebs can’t get away from the paparazzi. 

  • Anonymous

    If I was the family, I would sue. This was sooo inappropriate. Let the woman rest in PEACE. How did they get these photos?

  • http://twitter.com/JudzB Judy Bennett

    Learn to love people more than money…U r a disgrace to journalism 

  • Anonymous

    It begs the question though – if this viewing was ‘private for close friends and family’ - who pulled out the camera and snapped pictures then turned around and sold them? Was it funeral home staff? or someone close to whitney? the seller is just as bad…

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    So who clicked on this story hoping to see the photo?

    Well good for us they posted it on Fox News.

  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com PunditPawn

     Thanks to them, John Edward’s political career met its well-deserved end.

  • Centrist79

    Dam, I knew I would get caught.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand what’s bad about this.  We live in a country where most people want to be laid out after death so people can look at them.  I myself will be cremated because I do not want people looking at me.  I’m assuming Whitney had a will and was given the funeral she wanted, so again, what’s the problem.  This all seems hypocritical to me, which is so typically American!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    It was bound to happen.

  • LindaLeigh

    Well, she looked beautiful but it was wrong because it was unauthorized.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6DFS3Z7FKORZOTQUKYKK25MGC4 Wayne

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Judy-McCarroll/100003479692168 Judy McCarroll

    To the Family of the Late (Whitney Houston R.I.P) Thanking “GOD” for the
    Love that she sheared with the world through her music She was love by
    all ..Only people who may have a dislike to her will try to fine a fault
    with in her now that she is gone.. See National Enquirer leaked Whitney Houston Casket Photos (Uncensored) – http://su.pr/2UW3Yl

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    or you can just wait and  have it shoved in your face when you’re in line out at the supermarket.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    If it was a private viewing, can The Enquirer really be blamed that much? I mean, someone there took the pic, not the tabloid… not to mention, it’s not really the Enquirer’s best interest to -not- be sleazy.

  • José Luis Lugo

    It is not a big deal. We are all going to die. It is good to be reminded that the rich, as well as the poor, will all face the same end: death and judgment. 

  • Hout Bosques

    … and again when the NE runs its traditional “Whitney Faked Her Own Death” story; and again when the NE runs its obligatory “Diet Pills Killed Whitney” story; etc. What was the line when Lincoln died? “Now he belongs to the ages.”. The line for modern celebrities is “Now she belongs to the tabloids.”

  • Hout Bosques

    Right; particularly because she isn’t alive to care one way or the other.

  • Hout Bosques

    Uh … it happens to all of us; no one gets out this alive.

  • Hout Bosques

    Well, death anyway; judgment is left to the living.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3NGAJNFOKGFSF7HNXRQY32OEBY Leona Brown

    Someone should be ashamed of themselves invading that woman’s privacy like that. She was a famous person and someone took away the woman wasn’t even buried yet and someone exposed her like that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lance-Tootuff-K/100001198122998 Lance Tootuff K

    i wish she was still here i am really gonna miss her i cant believe she is really gone i just cant believe it my heart is brokened :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lance-Tootuff-K/100001198122998 Lance Tootuff K

    someone should of told her to stop drinkin or told her to have a glass of water thats what a true friend would had done thats wht i would had done 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lance-Tootuff-K/100001198122998 Lance Tootuff K

    if u were sad she was always the right person to cheer u up to make u happy again

  • Trucking

    She looked a lot better in death than she looked in her last years.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/X65C2YELF722KKTRFKBJM4L6TU Rocio Gonzalez

    bobby kristina,
               may you find peace and closure in your broken heart in knowing that the Lord from above must have seen your Beautiful Mother sad broken up and decided to whisper upon her name and receive her with Heavens Love..for he had angel wings to place upon her and allow her to stop her suffering and make her into your guardian angel from above, so that she could become stronger and guide and light up your troubled path with all her Mother’s love much stronger, pure and with God’s heavenly love…till you all meet again ..in the meantime stay strong and cherish all the loving memories shes left behind help keep her legacy live on…and on..for she was Gods Gift to the world for all of us to love.

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