Huebl will not say who hired him to look into Houston’s death but does confirm it is not Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law and one-time manager who claimed the star was the victim of a murder conspiracy — only to suddenly, and unaccountably, change her mind.
Huebl tells me: ‘Every indication is that it’s a murder. I’ve got some evidence that is pretty glaring, and I’ve turned it over to the appropriate law-enforcement agency.’
Huebl says unnamed informants have told him that surveillance video footage exists of the two men he claims are involved, entering Houston’s suite shortly after 2.45pm on the day she died — February 11 — while her assistant was out.
He believes they demanded the money she owed their bosses, and when she refused to give it to them, ‘things got physical’.
Although Houston’s assistant informed police that the last thing she told the singer before she went out was to have a bath, Huebl thinks Whitney was thrown in the water by one or more assailants. And what might have started out as an attempt to scare her, ended in murder.