By now you’ve no doubt heard, but 48-year-old pop legend Whitney Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub on Saturday, just hours before she was to take the stage at Clive Davis’s annual pre-Grammy party. TMZ says:

Her stylist, hairdresser and two bodyguards were among the people in the room… theybecame worried about Whitney because she had been in the bathroom for over an hour and it was time to start getting ready for the Clive Davis party.

They began to knock on the door and there was no answer. The hairdresser, who is female, went in to check on Whitney. She immediately screamed and, according to our sources, one of the bodyguards came running in and pulled her out of the tub.

We’re told Whitney’s face was below the water and her legs were up, like she had slid down the back of the tub.

Her body was very cold and the bodyguard attempted CPR. That’s when hotel security was called.

Paramedics arrived shortly thereafter, but Whitney was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

Initial coroner’s reports indicate that water was found in Whitney’s lungs, but whether she died from drowning or whether it was the “plethora of sedatives, including Lorazepam, Valium, Xanax, and sleeping medication” found in her room that actually did her in still remains to be seen, and toxicology results won’t be back for at least another month. So sad. Such a waste of talent and life. Not to mention I had Lindsay Lohan waaaay ahead of her in my celebrity death pool. That’s another five bucks I won’t be getting back.