FBI Releases File of Houston's Crazy Fan Letters

The FBI released earlier this month released a file of threatening and downright bizarre letters sent to Whitney Houston over the course of her career, including one from a Dutch man who claimed to be “President of Europe” and nearly 80 written by a man in Vermont who became smitten with the famed songstress in the mid-1980s, CNN reported.

The Dutch fan claimed to have purchased Brazil for $66 billion and also sent her cassettes of songs he’d written and recorded. The Vermont afficionado, an Army veteran, wrote to her that she was a “beautiful woman” and begged her to acknowledge him.

In 1992, Houston was also the target of an extortion attempt by a man who threatened to reveal intimate details about her relationship with Bobby Brown.

None of the correspondence led to criminal charges, CNN also reported.  

Houston, who was born in Newark and who first sang publicly as a member of the choir at New Hope Baptist Church, died last February at age 48 from drug-related causes.