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DATE: THURSDAY, July 1, 1993                   TAG: 9306300131
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PEOPLE

Whitney Houston's attorney blasted a newspaper report Monday that the singer was treated at a Miami Beach hospital last week after popping too many prescription diet pills. "She has never taken a diet pill in her life," said attorney Sheldon Platt. "She's outraged. She's hurt. . . . It is a total fabrication. There is absolutely no basis in fact. The article is completely wrong - not inaccurate - completely out of whack. None of this has happened."

According to the New York Post, the 29-year-old pop singer went to the hospital Thursday after complaining to her husband, Bobby Brown, of nausea and lightheadedness. The newspaper reported that Houston had acute heart arrhythmia. "We've checked extensively, and we have no record of her being here," said a Mount Sinai Hospital spokeswoman. "I'm sure somebody would have recognized her."

Courtroom couple: Giving a whole new meaning to the word "courting," the lawyer who successfully defended William Kennedy Smith against rape charges is dating one of the jurors who acquitted his client in 77 minutes. Roy Black has been seeing former juror Lea Haller, the Miami Herald reports, since "we bumped into each other."

\ Attorneys for Amy Fisher and her parents agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit in Mineola, N.Y., filed by the woman who was shot by the love-struck Long Island teen-ager.

Fisher, 18, is serving a five-to-15-year sentence for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco. Fisher said she was in a jealous rage because she was having an affair with Buttafuoco's husband, Joey. He denies having any affair with Fisher.

Mary Jo Buttafuoco had sued for $150 million, claiming that Fisher's parents failed "to exercise the necessary and proper parental influence, supervision and authority" and should have sought psychiatric help for her.

The lawsuit also named Peter Guagenti, who is serving a prison sentence for supplying Fisher with a gun.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

by CNB