cnd Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 THE publisher of the National Enquirer has defended her decision to put a picture of Whitney Houston's corpse on the cover. "I thought it was beautiful," publisher Mary Beth Wright told FOXNews.com. Fellow members of the media attacked the publication's decision as tasteless. The Washington Post declared that "a line had been crossed". The website Jezebel called it morbid and The Daily Caller added, "Running an image of Whitney Houston's lifeless body on the cover is pretty par for the course for The National Enquirer, but it's still a bit much." Houston, 48, was found submerged in the bath tub in her Beverly Hills hotel room earlier this month. The magazine's photo shows the late singer dead in a gold casket with the headline, "Whitney: The Last Photo!" The image is believed to have been taken inside the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, New Jersey. Accompanying headlines lure readers in with the promise to bring them inside Whitney's private funeral, offering details that she was buried in $500,000 of jewellery with gold slippers on her feet. The photograph does not bear a credit, and The Enquirer is not releasing any details about how they obtained it. No one from Houston's family has called the photograph out as fraudulent. Magazine photo editors estimated that a coffin photograph like the one published by the Enquirer could sell in the mid six-figure range or even higher. This isn't the first time the Enquirer has published photographs of dead or dying celebrities. In 1977, the magazine published a photograph of the singer Elvis Presley in his coffin. It published a photograph of John Lennon following his death in 1980. "The Enquirer struck again with its latest cover featuring Whitney Houston in a casket. It's just another disgusting display of how low celebrity obsession can stoop. Regardless of how they obtained the picture - and the likely exorbitant price they paid for it - the Enquirer should have thought twice about this post-mortem portrait," Denise Warner, the executive editor of the website HollywoodLife.com told Fox411. "No one needs to remember Whitney preserved in formaldehyde. And it's certainly not an image that is necessary in the discussion of her life and death." When polled on Wednesday, over 100,000 FOXNews.com readers weighed in on the National Enquirer cover. Forty per cent said that the Enquirer publishing the photographs was a shame, but par for the course for them. Thirty-seven per cent said that it was reprehensible and 21 per cent said they saw absolutely nothing wrong with it. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/dead-whitney-houston-cover-was-beautiful-art-says-national-enquirer-publisher/story-e6frfn09-1226280595344#ixzz1nId9kbL7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwistedElegance™ Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Oh, bullshit. The fact they tagged it "the last photo!" makes it all the more disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 They make me sick. Someone from her camp, please sue already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeon Dragon Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I found it disturbing and sickening. It was a level below the lowest of low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnd Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 Carolyn Whigham denies taking Whitney Houston corpse photo THE owner of the funeral home where Whitney Houston's memorial was held says she fears for the safety of her staff after a deluge of emails from fans following the publication of a photo of the star's corpse by a national magazine. Carolyn Whigham of the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, told the New York Daily News she was "horrified" at accusations her staff were to blame after the National Enquirer published a photo of the singer in her open casket. "We did not take that photo. We did not sell the photo. We would never do something like that," said the second-generation CEO of the funeral home that has been running for 69 years. "Whitney was a friend. I'm the one who flew to Los Angeles and got Whitney from the coroner's office. I did everything to protect her." Whigham said she was worried about the safety of her employees and herself after "distressing" emails from distraught fans. "This is my name, my character. Honestly, this is my life's work. We would never do something like this." She added security were with Houston's body 24 hours a day, saying, "They slept there with her. She was never alone, anywhere." "The only time security fell back was when the family had the private viewing Friday. We weren't involved with that. The family invited its own guests," she said. She said Houston's family have not blamed her business for the photo. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/carolyn-whigham-denies-taking-whitney-houston-corpse-photo/story-e6frfmq9-1226281474906#ixzz1nOo6VXsR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 gettin' that money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeon Dragon Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 gettin' that money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 If it wasn't the staff then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeon Dragon Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 If it wasn't the staff then... security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 security That was my second guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeon Dragon Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 That was my second guess. More than likely. It's going to be really difficult to find out who did this. Click, flash, e-mail, send .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 More than likely. It's going to be really difficult to find out who did this. Click, flash, e-mail, send .... Well if it was security I think it would be somewhat easy to tell. I bet the Enquirer still has the info for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOtherFan Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 The name of the person who took it is going to leak...the Enquirer has come under too much scrutiny for running the photo (they've got to shift attention). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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