L.A. Coroner: Whitney Houston Died of Heart Disease and Cocaine Use

by Gary Kopycinski on March 22, 2012

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Los Angeles, CA—(ENEWSPF)—March 22, 2012. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said today that the cause of singer Whitney Houston’s death was drowning and the “effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.” The manner of the singer’s death was listed as an “accident.”