London, April 5: Whitney Houston secretly paid 400,000 dollars to drug gangsters to save her kidnapped ex-husband's life, claims a new book.
According to writer David Collins, her former husband Bobby Brown was `knocked out with one punch' and taken hostage at gunpoint by New York street gang called the Preacher Crew in April 1993.
"When he awoke, Bobby was naked and hog-tied, his mouth stuffed with a rag," the Daily Express quoted Collins as saying in his autobiography, Preacher of the Streets.