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Geraldo Rivera: ‘Keep Bobby Brown Away’ From Whitney Houston’s Daughter

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In the wake of Whitney Houston‘s death, there have been a lot of questions floating around, whether about her funeral or her family. On Friday morning, Geraldo Rivera took to Fox News to address some of the issues, including Bobby Brown‘s relationship with his daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and Houston’s fortune.

Warning of Brown’s bad influence, Rivera said:

Whitney Houston was an admitted junkie, there’s no doubt about that, and Bobby Brown, I blame him for getting her hooked … I think they should do everything to keep Bobby Brown away from Bobbi Kristina. But he is the only surviving parent, so really that’s her decision to make.

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He went on to say that though Brown may be trying to reconnect with his daughter, there’s likely an ulterior motive:

But the suspicion is…that Bobby Brown, who was the world’s worst father, has made himself close to the daughter to get his hands on the $20 million estate that Whitney Houston — like Michael Jackson, like Elvis — worth much more dead than alive because she had squandered all her fortune. … So Bobby Brown, the man who got her hooked on gutter drugs, including crack, he is circling like a vulture around his own daughter now, and the suspicion is he’ll try to cash in.

Whatever the case, it’s probably not the last we’ll hear of this.

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  • Anonymous

    Jerry Rivers — being an speculative jerk, as usual. Who’s to say what his motivations are? And I haven’t heard anything recent regarding him using drugs. People do change, you know?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KBTBQLMPLNWUH6HTXXVZF25VVI me

    Whitney was a mess BEFORE Bobby. She said so herself and that is why she was attracted to him. He has gotten himself clean and is working on his life. Stop blaming him for Whitney’s choices. He loves that child and it is HER choice whether to have a relationship with him or not. Bobbi Kris knows better than any of us what they both were like. I’m sure she saw a lotof crap in her 18yrs on this planet.  Geraldo needs to STFU. 

  • Anonymous

    Geraldo called Casey Anthony a good mother but has a problem with Bobby Brown? Okayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  • Anonymous

    Well said man, if you are a conservative wish more conservatives were like you.

  • Anonymous

    The Houston family haven’t invited Mr Brown to the funeral and that is quite a indictment on how they feel about him…

  • http://twitter.com/kelly396 kelly murphy

    Check your facts.  He is going to the funeral as he should for his daughter’s sake.  

  • Anonymous

    At the last minute…

    …Perfect!

    The ideal example of a substance and wife abusing father.

    For his daughter’s sake…

    ..he shouldn’t!

  • Anonymous

     hahahahahahaha….youre wrong about that….typical for wingnuts that make it up as they go along

  • Anonymous

    riviera….you keep him away from his 18 yr old daughter…billybaddass

  • Anonymous

     first you said bobby wasnt invited to the service….you were wrong about that….now youre accusing bobby of domestic violence…….YOU GOT PROOF OF THAT….or are you like most debunked conservatives grasping at straws……………….slurp slurp

  • Anonymous

    Grasping at straws?

    …Hardly!

    Unless you consider Mr Brown to embody the sensible requirements of fatherhood. He’s a pretty far distance from that…

    …Slurp yourself moron!

  • Anonymous

    You must be all of five years old…

    …Leave the adult computer alone!

  • Anonymous

    Geraldo doesn’t know anything about when, where, or how Whitney got introduced to drugs.  Whitney was a self described Jersey girl with a bit of a wild streak long before she met Bobby Brown.  Both have said many times that they loved each other but at times brought out the worst in each other.

    Bobbi Kristina is eighteen and can decide for herself what kind of relationship she wants to have with her father if any at all.  Bobby Brown has every right to pay his respects and say goodbye to his to his ex-wife and support his daughter during her time of mourning.

    Geraldo, STFU and mind your own business.

  • Anonymous

    Geraldo doesn’t know anything about when, where, or how Whitney got introduced to drugs.  Whitney was a self described Jersey girl with a bit of a wild streak long before she met Bobby Brown.  Both have said many times that they loved each other but at times brought out the worst in each other.

    Bobbi Kristina is eighteen and can decide for herself what kind of relationship she wants to have with her father if any at all.  Bobby Brown has every right to pay his respects and say goodbye to his to his ex-wife and support his daughter during her time of mourning.

    Geraldo, STFU and mind your own business.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Wow Fox! Great job finding a new way to alienate more people. Superb!!

  • Pablo

    Right? Put a sock in it, Jerry. Tell it to your 4 baby mommas.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2F2MSAFRMLTIQ6N43UKW26GVJY Eugene

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

    Nice to see FOX is covering the hard news that matters – that’s some serious journalism going on there, Geraldo!

  • Anonymous

    Bobby Brown has always been kind of a thug-wannabe.  I used to intern at his recording studio many many years ago and there are stories about him and his entourage of yes-men.  Messed up stuff.

  • Anonymous

    And you thought Nancy Grace was so over the top with her comments?

  • Anonymous

    She was murdered … It’s so obvious …
    And the motive ? … Geraldo cinched it !
    These devil comments are all generated.
    The perps are sloW ppy.

  • Anonymous

    Where was this concerned media for Whitney when she boarded the run away train headed for destruction?  Why was it okay for Whitney to bring her bodyguards and entourage to Bobby Brown’s mother’s funeral, disrespecting the Brown family, being loud and out of order?  Did Bobby Brown’s family ask her entourage to leave the funeral?  No!  They embraced her with love, kindness and respect.  This sounds like a family who loves The Lord thy God.  Clive Davis founded Whitney “Nippy” Houston, brought her to the big stage and bright light’s.  Whitney stated that she was on drugs before she met Bobby Brown.  Being in Clive Davis’ care, Geraldo, ask Clive Davis how big time drugs can make it’s way to this Global Goddess?  Geraldo, since you speak so boldly, do a story on “How big-time drugs makes its way onto the big-time Hollywood stage”.  Whitney Houston was in Clive Davis’ care when she left Newark, New Jersey….young, sober and beautiful, only to return home as a recovering drug addict who loves The Lord.  It’s amazing how some “white folks” can flip the script off of them, bamboozle the minds of some “black folks” and blame the black man for the failure of the black woman.

  • pa’shaun pride

     Whitney never stated she was using drugs before she met Bobby Brown.

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