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POP DIVA VS. POP: Whitney's Dad has a few things to say, too.


Whitney Houston
(Dec. 6, 2002) *What’s good for the goose … Whitney Houston spilled it, well, almost all, to Diane Sawyer on Wednesday and one day later, her father, John Houston, 82, made an appearance on the syndicated TV show “Celebrity Justice” to make a plea to his daughter saying, “Pay me the money.”
Ms. Houston is being sued by her father who claims that he and his partner were hired to help her with various financial and personal difficulties, as well as to negotiate her record contract. The elder Houston says they were never paid.

Of the suit, Whitney said in her interview, that it was hurtful and motivated by someone who "has put fear in his heart." She also made it clear that she wasn't paying.

"They'll never get $100 million out of me. I know that!"

Still, daddy Houston made the plea from a hospital bed (talk about guilt trip) asking his daughter to pay up the management fees she owes. Speaking to Whitney during his “CJ” interview, Houston said, "You get your act together honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me. If you do that, you haven't got a lawsuit. ... At my age, I haven't got that long.”

Meanwhile, it should come as no surprise that the "Primetime" interview was a ratings powerhouse for ABC, averaging 21.3 million viewers to rank as the most watched news magazine broadcast on any network since Connie Chung interviewed congressman Gary Condit on ABC's "Primetime Thursday" in August 2001.