I was nowhere to be found... So to make me that person when I wasn’t even there and then to put murderer on top of that… it’s ...

Whitney Houston is seen here performing in 2011, one year before she died. The Houston family put a number of the singer's personal items on the auction block, bringing in $525,000.

Whitney Houston was released on Feb. 14, 1985. The album first cracked the top 10 on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated Aug. 31, 1985, and first reached No. 1 on the chart dated March 8, 1986.