--- description: A Beverly Hills police sergeant claims he was demoted after reporting that a fellow officer made inappropriate remarks at the crime scene title: Lawsuit Claims Cop Ogled Whitney Houston's Naked Corpse image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fd863d32fcdd8/698684ef169ab0bdc32782de/whitney-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lawsuit Claims Cop Ogled Whitney Houston's Naked Corpse by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 11, 2014 6:01 PM CUT  Getty by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 11, 2014 6:01 PM CUT A Beverly Hills police sergeant is suing the city, claiming he faced retaliation after reporting that a detective in his unit made inappropriate remarks about Whitney Houston’s body at the scene of her death. In a lawsuit, Sgt. Brian Weir alleges that just hours after the singer’s death, a fellow sergeant from the Beverly Hills Police Department lifted a sheet covering the superstar’s naked body and said: “Damn, she’s still looking good, huh?” Since he reported the incident, Sgt. Weir claims he’s been demoted and harassed, [NBC reported.](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/cop-i-was-demoted-reporting-ogling-whitney-houstons-body-n49526 "undefined") Houston was 48 when she drowned in a bathtub in her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel two years ago. Watch the video above for more. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/20130/lawsuit-claims-cop-ogled-whitney-houstons-naked-corpse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/20130/lawsuit-claims-cop-ogled-whitney-houstons-naked-corpse/"},"headline":"Lawsuit Claims Cop Ogled Whitney Houston's Naked Corpse","datePublished":"2014-03-11T18:01:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:42:21.709Z","description":"A Beverly Hills police sergeant claims he was demoted after reporting that a fellow officer made inappropriate remarks at the crime scene","url":"https://time.com/20130/lawsuit-claims-cop-ogled-whitney-houstons-naked-corpse/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fd863d32fcdd8/698684ef169ab0bdc32782de/whitney-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb26fd863d32fcdd8/698684ef169ab0bdc32782de/whitney-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Whitney Houston","caption":"","creditText":"Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/20130/lawsuit-claims-cop-ogled-whitney-houstons-naked-corpse/","name":"Lawsuit Claims Cop Ogled Whitney Houston's Naked Corpse"}}]}] ```