Posted on 02/23/2012 8:50:03 PM PST by Beaten Valve
ARMED guards are protecting Whitney Houston’s grave from bling-hunting robbers.
Fears that ghouls will plunder her resting place were triggered after it was revealed she was buried wearing up to £300,000 of jewels and designer clothes.
The singer, who died a fortnight ago in her LA hotel room after a drugs and booze binge, lies in a gold-lined coffin worth tens of thousands of pounds.
She is draped in a purple gown and also wears a diamond brooch and earrings and a pair of glittering gold slippers.
But the treasure-filled casket has caused alarm among the star’s family and friends.
And now minders have been ordered to watch over her grave-side at Fairview Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey.
A source said last night: “There is a very genuine fear that her coffin will be targeted by grave robbers.
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I’m sure Bobby Brown’s already taken anything of value and used the money on crack by now.
I thought it was stupid to bury her in this cemetery and not a secure one in LA. Who is suppose to pay for the 24 hour security her grave will require? I also thought it
was illegal to bury anyone with valuables in their graves now, but I can’t say exactly when or where I heard this years ago.
Awhile ago another poster had said some wife exhumed the body of her famous husband to get the $70,000 ring off his finger. (I forget now who it was).
And reports had it that Whitney was stone broke, living off the money of her friends and hangers-ons. I doubt that they would have buried her in $500,000 of borrowed bling.
I was thinking the same thing. I also wonder if creditors can have someone exhumed to recover assets?
Gold-lined coffin? Seriously? Who believes this frap?
Three words: Hope and Change.
Look what we got.
I'm surprised she's still below ground.
In our family someone was assigned to watch the casket being closed and sealed after the funeral home service the morning of the burial, so no sticky fingers got the wedding rings off the body.
Nope. Predicted it even before I heard there was all this “bling” in the grave with her. They'll either disinter her and dad or pour concrete into the grave
“All jewerly is usually removed by the funeral director before going into the hearse...”
Unless the family wants them buried with it. My former boss was a Funeral Director, he was given a ring to put on the deceased for burial. He put it in his pocket. He buried the guy. While walking away from the grave he chanced to put his hand in his pocket...oops! He got the crew to uncover the coffin and they put the ring on the guy.
However I doubt whitney was buried with anything near 6 figures on her.
We had one for our brother and for our son we paid extra to have a bronze container. (so stupid - who sees it after it’s buried and you never see it at the gravesite either)It’s not required by Texas law but we wanted them anyway. Anyway, the concrete or the bronze vaults have lids on them. Very easy to remove. It is only to keep the grave from sinking in on the coffin. It makes it easier for a mortician to open the coffin if there is a reason to - a move to another cemetery or an autopsy like in a criminal case. That said I do doubt she was buried with all the bling but there are ghouls out there who would dig her up just to have something from her.
Good thing she wasn’t buried wearing a pair of those $220 Nike shoes.
She’s buried in the middle of Newark, New Jersey. Crackheads would dig up her grave with spoons to get at that loot.
It’s all about the money.
Reader’s Digest sent me an email offering the “Special Whtney Houston Collection “ before she was even buried.
The promoters who care nothing for the talented as persons only as cash cows should bear a lot of the blame.Behavior that would be intolerable in any other business is winked at,nay encouraged ,in entertainers of all sorts,icluding sports players,who are nothing more than entertainers who exert themselves physically.
If they named the school for her BEFORE her descent into drug use it would be crass to change it now.
There was good reason for the tradition of naming things in memory of the late whomever;or at least one so old that unlikely to commit embarrassing mistakes.
When my husband died, my kids insisted his cowboy boots be buried with him...the only disappointment was the boots were put in the casket, but not one his feet....I just figured its probably very hard to put boots on a corpse, but they wished he was wearing them...his rosary was buried with him, but I don’t remember if his grandfathers wedding ring was removed or not...it was 18 K gold and would have made a heirloom to keep in the family..but that was in 1990 and I forget....for the family only the casket was opened all the way to show his boots were with him, then closed for the ride to the cemetary...it would now be his grandchildrens great grandfathers ring. Some things should be removed to pass on to the next generation....
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