He told Fox News Digital that Houston had one famous fan who made his adoration well known – Robert De Niro. "Mr. De Niro was smitten with Ms. Houston," he recalled. "He kept sending her flowers.

Movie legend Robert De Niro has been stripped of a prestigious leadership award, after a fiery speech outside the Donald Trump “hush-money” trial was deemed a “distraction” by organisers.

Robert De Niro has said he is not despairing over Trump’s second term as president in the hope that “things will right themselves”. The Oscar-winning actor, 81, has been a longtime critic of ...