Bobby Brown pleads not guilty to drunk driving in Los Angeles
Whitney Houston’s exhusband, Bobby Brown, pleaded not guilty on Monday to a charge of drunk driving and driving on a suspended licence in Los Angeles last month.
Brown, 43, a singer with the 1980s boy band New Direction, did not appear in court for Monday’s hearing and his plea was entered by his lawyer. A pre-trial hearing was set for May 16.
The singer was arrested on March 26, about six weeks after Houston’s sudden death, when police pulled him over for talking on his cellphone while driving. He then failed a sobriety test, police said.
Brown has a string of arrests over the years for battery, drunk driving and parole violations. He was married to Houston for almost 15 years, and their relationship was marked by what the singer of I Will Always Love You later described as heavy cocaine use and bizarre behaviour.
Houston drowned in a hotel bathtub on Feb. 11 in an accident triggered by cocaine use and heart disease, a Los Angeles coroner’s report said.
Police said they found no evidence of foul play, but did not address drug use.