{"id":87923,"date":"2012-03-28T21:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/03\/28\/man-who-sold-coffin-photo-of-whitney-admits-wiping-hotel-suite-clean\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T21:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:58:45","slug":"man-who-sold-coffin-photo-of-whitney-admits-wiping-hotel-suite-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/03\/28\/man-who-sold-coffin-photo-of-whitney-admits-wiping-hotel-suite-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who sold coffin photo of Whitney admits wiping hotel suite clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/OCZGLZHNDTGBVPDLYLNF.jpg>A close confidant of the late pop diva Whitney Houston has admitted he cleaned up the hotel room where she drowned, Celebuzz has learned. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with respected Dutch newspaper The Telegraph on February 15, just four days after the singer\u2019s death, Raffles van Exel confessed: \u201cThe room had to be emptied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone had to do it,\u201d van Exel told the newspaper, according to a translation of the article published online.<br \/>\nVan Exel stopped short of telling The Telegraph what exactly he removed from the suite and he has not returned Celebuzz\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Los Angeles County Coroner\u2019s Office declared Houston, 48, died from an accidental drowning in a hotel bathtub with the \u201ceffects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sources tell Celebuzz that Beverly Hills police are still investigating how Houston acquired the drugs that contributed to her death and whether they were hidden from police and first responders.<\/p>\n<p>No cocaine or drug paraphernalia were found in the suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the source adds. However, Houston\u2019s cocaine use appeared to have occurred \u201cin the time period just immediately prior to her collapse in the bathtub at the hotel,\u201d Chief Coroner Craig Harvey said when he announced the findings of his report, last week. <\/p>\n<p>In various media released, Van Exel, a Dutch national, touts himself as a \u201chighly respected entertainment consultant\u201d who has \u201cguided some of the world\u2019s most acclaimed executives and celebrities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close confidant of the late pop diva Whitney Houston has admitted he cleaned up the hotel room where she drowned, Celebuzz has learned. In an interview with respected Dutch newspaper The Telegraph on February 15, just four days after the singer\u2019s death, Raffles van Exel confessed: \u201cThe room had to be emptied.\u201d \u201cSomeone had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}