Visitors who come for a pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday night was abuzz with news of the death of Whitney Houston, who died earlier in his room at the hotel.
"Everyone is talking about it, but the mood has changed from excited members of the grief," said Carolyn Blazer, a visitor who often traveled with his family from Colorado to Los Angeles on Grammy weekend. She said they always keep the hotel because they will see all the celebrities who attend the annual pre-Grammy music mogul Clive Davis party.
Houston, 48, was among the carriers planning to attend parties Davis and Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett and Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jennifer Hudson, Diana Krall and others.
Blazer said she had just returned from a trip downtown Saturday afternoon when she saw an ambulance parked outside the main entrance on Wilshire Boulevard hotel. She said another visitor visitor told her room in Houston was clearly on the fourth floor as part of the floor was cordoned off by emergency personnel.
Julia O'Reilly, another visitor, a guest who was in the lobby area directly above the door of International Standard, in which music could be heard coming from inside as guests trickled in person, she had just returned to the hotel an hour earlier and heard the news.
"I hope she did not do anything crazy," she said in Houston. "No one here is to show any emotion or sadness. But the best actors and singers always say that the show going on."
Friends find their hotel rooms in Houston around 3:30 pm and immediately called 911, said sources who asked to remain anonymous because the investigation is ongoing. Involved in emergency medical personnel found the singer unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead shortly before 4 PM.
"Everyone is talking about it, but the mood has changed from excited members of the grief," said Carolyn Blazer, a visitor who often traveled with his family from Colorado to Los Angeles on Grammy weekend. She said they always keep the hotel because they will see all the celebrities who attend the annual pre-Grammy music mogul Clive Davis party.
Houston, 48, was among the carriers planning to attend parties Davis and Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett and Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jennifer Hudson, Diana Krall and others.
Blazer said she had just returned from a trip downtown Saturday afternoon when she saw an ambulance parked outside the main entrance on Wilshire Boulevard hotel. She said another visitor visitor told her room in Houston was clearly on the fourth floor as part of the floor was cordoned off by emergency personnel.
Julia O'Reilly, another visitor, a guest who was in the lobby area directly above the door of International Standard, in which music could be heard coming from inside as guests trickled in person, she had just returned to the hotel an hour earlier and heard the news.
"I hope she did not do anything crazy," she said in Houston. "No one here is to show any emotion or sadness. But the best actors and singers always say that the show going on."
Friends find their hotel rooms in Houston around 3:30 pm and immediately called 911, said sources who asked to remain anonymous because the investigation is ongoing. Involved in emergency medical personnel found the singer unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead shortly before 4 PM.
