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The coroner’s report may now be out, and we may now know the official Whitney Houston cause of death, but that doesn’t mean the controversy surrounding this artist has gone away.

On an edition of CNN’s Headline News last night, Leolah Brown – the sister of Whitney’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown – came right out and accused Ray J of supplying her former sister-in-law with the cocaine found in her system at the time of her passing.

Brown referred to Ray J as Houston’s “runner boy.”

Ray J and Princess Love in 2019
(Getty Images for MTV)

In response, a rep for the singer has released the following statement:

“Even though Leolah Brown was nowhere near the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the day Whitney Houston died, Ms. Brown falsely claimed that Ray J was at the hotel and contributed to Whitney Houston’s death. Even the most minimal inquiry with anyone actually in contact with Whitney would reveal that Leolah Brown had been out of contact with Whitney for more than a year.”

Earlier in the week, Ray J also shot down chatter that he was in possession a sex tape starring himself and the late “I Will Always Love You” legend.