We do know this: Brown was discovered facedown in a bathtub at her Roswell, Georgia, home over the weekend, and she was reportedly found by the man she has called her husband, and a friend.
Here’s what we know about the players involved in the story.
Bobbi Kristina Brown
She is the daughter of two singers who were pop music icons of 1980s and 1990s. She was born on March 4, 1993, less than a year after parents, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, wed.
At the time, her mother was enjoying critical acclaim for her first acting role in “The Bodyguard” and for the accompanying soundtrack, which featured Houston belting out a rendition of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.”
It appears Bobbi Kristina wanted to follow in her parents’ footsteps. As a youngster, she appeared on stage with her mother on numerous occasions.
She told Oprah Winfrey during a 2012 interview that her plan for life included the “singing thing … some acting, some dancing.” She also spoke to Winfrey about how much she missed her mother, who died February 11, 2012.
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Houston bounced in and out of drug rehab twice, declaring herself drug-free during a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
When she drowned in a hotel bathtub almost three years before Bobbi Kristina Brown was found in a similar state (cocaine and heart disease were cited as factors in her death), Houston, 48, had an estate worth an estimated $12 million to $20 million.
According to her will, which she signed about a month before Bobbi Kristina Brown’s 1993 birth, her daughter was the sole heir to her estate.
If she had no children, the will said, the money was to be split among her mother, father (now deceased), two brothers and Bobby Brown. She filed an amendment to the will in 2000 but only changed the executor and one of the trustees. The heirs remained the same.
It was widely reported that when Bobbi Kristina Brown turned 21 in March 2014, she received the first installment from her trust, one-tenth of her mother’s estate.
Bobbi Kristina Brown is scheduled to receive one-sixth of the estate in 2018 and the remaining balance in 2023.
CNN’s Ralph Ellis, Greg Botelho, John Newsome, Carolyn Sung, Lisa Respers France and Nick Valencia contributed to this report.
