After creating the non-profit in 2015, the singer will move forward with official plans to construct a physical building in honor of his late daughter, who died in 2015 at age 22.
The New Edition member, 49, will receive a proclamation from South Fulton, Georgia, Mayor Bill Edwards on Monday to build a domestic violence shelter in memory of Bobbi Kristina, his only child with late singerWhitney Houston.
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When Bobbi Kristina was 18,her mother was found deadin a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 11, 2012.
Three years later, on Jan. 31, 2015, Bobbi Kristina, then 21, wasfound face down and unconscious in a bathtubof freezing cold water in her home in Roswell, Georgia. She suffered irreversible brain damage and six months in a coma as a result of the incident. Bobbi Kristina died in hospice three years ago Thursday, on July 26, 2015.
Suspicions soon fell on her boyfriendNick Gordon, whom Bobbi Kristina’s housemate, Max Lomas,had been seen arguing with herearlier in the night she was found unconscious.
Gordon wasfound liable for her deathin November 2016 and was ordered to pay $36 million to her estate.
Brown is no stranger to domestic violence himself. In his 2016 memoir,Every Little Step,recounted an incidentwhere he admits he hit Houston. Brown told Robin Roberts during a20/20interviewpromoting the book that he struck the singer during a time while he was “trying to maintain sobriety.”
Brown charged that reports of him being a “woman beater” or overall “violent toward her,” however, are “just lies.”
“I’ve never been a violent man toward a woman ever,” Brown told Roberts.
In 2003, Brown wasreportedly chargedwith misdemeanor battery related to alleged domestic violence. Houston had asserted toRedbookyears earlier, though, “I do the hitting.”
source: people.com
