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February 23, 2012 4:37 AM EST
Fans of Whitney Houston have reacted in horror to a National Enquirer front page showing her lying in her coffin.
The picture appears to have been taken during a private viewing for the singer's family at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, New Jersey on 19 February.
Houston is seen to be wearing a purple dress and is lying in a golden casket. Her family nickname, "Nippy", is embroidered on the inside of the lid.
The Enquirer's sub-headlines claim that Houston, who died after supposedly taking a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in a Beverly Hills Hilton hotel on 11 February, was buried in $500,000 of jewellery and gold slippers.
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton branded the cover printing a "tasteless, insensitive and morbid thing to do".
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Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams tweeted: "The photo of Whitney Houston in her casket to me was just plain wrong."
Evelyn Lozada, a reality TV star from VH1's Basketball Wives, said: "MADD at who ever sold Whitney houston's pic of her in her casket."
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