I knew Whitney Houston’s friend, Raffles what’s-his-name, was lying about removing the cocaine from Whitney Houston’s hotel room. Attention whores will say anything for attention.

Authorities tell celebrity gossip website TMZ.com that a white, powdery substance was removed from Whitney’s suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel the day she died on Feb. 11. Subsequent testing confirmed the powdery substance was cocaine.

Whitney had cocaine in her system when she died.

From TMZ.com:

Authorities recovered cocaine in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died … TMZ has learned.

As for the quantity of cocaine that was found, official documents show one of the items police recovered was “white, powdery remnants.” Sources tell us the powder was tested and it’s cocaine.

We’re told Beverly Hills detectives are NOT investigating rumors that someone removed cocaine from the room, because they’re convinced it wasn’t removed.

Sources directly involved in the investigation told TMZ early on … no illegal drugs were recovered from the room. We have circled back with these sources who now tell us they were unaware at the time that cocaine was present.

Bottom line — cops are in the final stages of their investigation, but they are not focusing on anyone who possibly removed cocaine, because authorities are in possession of the goods. Source

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