Boyfriend of Whitney Houston’s daughter “legally responsible” for her death

A judge in Georgia has found Nick Gordon “legally responsible” for the wrongful death of his partner Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston.

The civil case had been filed by the estate of the deceased against the young woman’s boyfriend on suspicion that he gave her a “toxic cocktail” of drugs and left her in a bathtub, local media reported.

The Fulton County judge in Atlanta, Georgia, took the decision in Gordon’s absence after he failed to show up for the hearings and was ruled guilty by default of the charges against him.

The representatives of Whitney Houston’s daughter demand that Gordon pay a compensation of $50 million for damages and that he return all objects that belonged to her.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, was found unconscious in the bathtub at her home in Roswell, Georgia, on Jan. 31, 2015, by Nick Gordon, and after languishing six months in a coma, passed away on July 26 last year under hospice care in Atlanta.

According to documents presented in court by Bedelia C. Hargrove, known as the conservator, financial manager and friend of the deceased, Gordon gave the young woman an overdose of drugs and left her in a bathtub of cold water.

The couple, who formalized their relationship after Whitney Houston died, had a history of domestic violence.

Bobbi Kristina was the only child of the marriage of singers Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, who died an accidental death by drowning in February 2012 at age 48 in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel.