{"id":1015,"date":"2007-09-01T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/bobby-brown-and-whitney-houston.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-01T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T22:55:01","slug":"bobby-brown-and-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/bobby-brown-and-whitney-houston.htm","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Brown And Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched the reality TV show, <em>Being Bobby Brown<\/em>, as camera crews have followed\u00a0Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston throughout their &#8220;normal&#8221; days and nights.\u00a0I definitely don&#8217;t see either of them as good role models. It was no surprise when their marriage collapsed and Houston filed for divorce in September 2006 to end\u00a0their 14-year marriage. Quite frankly, I&#8217;m surprised they didn&#8217;t maim or destroy each other years earlier.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe current drama surrounding the battling couple is Bobby Brown&#8217;s claim that ex, Houston, has kept him from having contact with their 14-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. In filings in Orange County Superior Court (California) he said he had not seen or spoken with his daughter since June and, due to Houston&#8217;s actions, didn&#8217;t see a way that he would see or speak with her any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>During their April court case, Houston told the judge that Brown was &#8220;unreliable.&#8221; The judge ruled the marriage dissolved effective April 24, 2007, and gave Houston sole custody of their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The couple got married in 1992; at that time, Houston was at the height of her career as a Grammy-winning superstar, and Brown was an award-winning R&#038;B singer, songwriter, and dancer who began his career with the New Edition in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched the reality TV show, Being Bobby Brown, as camera crews have followed\u00a0Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston throughout their &#8220;normal&#8221; days and nights.\u00a0I definitely don&#8217;t see either of them as good role models. It was no surprise when their marriage collapsed and Houston filed for divorce in September 2006 to end\u00a0their 14-year marriage. Quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/bobby-brown-and-whitney-houston.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bobby Brown And Whitney Houston&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}