We're losing too many of our ex-addict songstresses. Whitney Houston's publicist just confirmed to the AP that the famous singer was found dead today in her hotel room in Beverly Hills, California. She was 48.

Houston's bodyguard discovered her unresponsive at the Beverly Hilton hotel this afternoon. She was pronounced dead at 3:55pm. So far sources have not reported the cause of death, although Dione Warwick and Cissy Houston have claimed that they had spoken with Whitney just half an hour before she died. They say that nothing seemed to be wrong with her; they were in fact making plans to attend the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party.