Nick Gordon ordered to pay $36million in damages for the wrongful death of Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina

Nick and Kristina

A judge in Atlanta has ordered Bobbi Kristina Brown's partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case on Thursday, according to her estate's lawyers. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home in January 2015.
Gordon, who also lived there, and a friend were listed on the police report as being in the home when investigators arrived there. The wrongful death suit said other people were there when Brown was initially found unresponsive. She was in a coma for six months before dying in hospice care at the age of 22 on July 26, 2015.
Her death was similar to the way her mother died and drew worldwide headlines and the frenzied attention of the tabloids. Whitney Houston's body was found face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the 2012 Grammy Awards.

Kristina and mum, Whitney Houston

Bobby Brown testifying

Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in Houston's body and determined her death was an accidental drowning. Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford ruled in September that Gordon repeatedly failed to meet court deadlines in the civil suit. His order said that means the conservator of her estate wins by default. Bobby Brown and his daughter, LaPrincia Brown, Bobbi Kristina's half-sister, were among the witnesses who testified at Thursday's hearing. The young woman's family blamed Gordon, accusing him in the lawsuit of giving Brown a 'toxic cocktail' before putting her face-down in the water.
Investigators with the medical examiner's office were unable to determine exactly how Brown had died. An autopsy showed she had morphine, cocaine, alcohol and prescription drugs in her body. But the medical examiner couldn't determine if she killed herself, if someone else killed her or if her death was accidental.
Houston and Bobby Brown were married 15 years before their relationship ended in 2007. Bobbi Kristina was their only child together.