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Nick Gordon, who was found liable for death of Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, dies at 30

  • Nick Gordon was thrust into the spotlight after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive facedown in a bathtub

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Nick Gordon and Bobbi Kristina Brown in 2012. File photo: TNS
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Nick Gordon, who was found liable in the death of his ex-partner Bobbi Kristina Brown, has died. He was 30.

Gordon’s lawyer Joe Habachy did not give a cause of death or say where it occurred. But he said in a statement: “It’s been truly heartbreaking to have witnessed first hand the total devastation that drug addiction has wreaked upon a group of young friends, all of whom were loved and had immense potential.”

Gordon’s death comes nearly five years after Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in January 2015. The 22-year-old died after six months in a coma.
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Investigators with the medical examiner’s office were not able to determine exactly how Bobbi Kristina Brown died. An autopsy showed that she had morphine, cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs in her body, but the medical examiner couldn’t determine if she killed herself, if someone else killed her or if her death was accidental.

Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in 2011. File photo: AP
Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in 2011. File photo: AP
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Her family blamed Gordon, accusing him in the lawsuit of giving her a “toxic cocktail” before putting her face-down in the water.

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