“Grieving” Nick Gordon - who was banned from his girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown’s funeral by her dad, Bobby Brown, and also facing a wrongful-death suit
in her catastrophic passing - was paid $40,000 for photos and video of
his so-called “secret pilgrimage” to her grave, sources exclusively tell
Page Six.
But the money, we hear, is going to his “legal defense fund” because
Nick is “broke” and needs the funds to pay his top legal team, which
includes Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez.
Teary images of Gordon visiting the grave of Whitney Houston and Brown’s daughter, who tragically died at 22, were splashed in a National Enquirer cover story
Wednesday, including pics of Gordon at New Jersey’s Fairview Cemetery
clutching two bouquets of roses, kissing Bobbi Kristina’s tombstone,
taking cellphone photos of it and having a tearful breakdown.
But “it was not by accident that Nick was photographed at the site,”
scoffed an insider. Another source said the Enquirer paid Gordon a cool
$40,000 for the shots.
“Nick is broke,” our source said. “He can’t afford to defend himself.
There was a deal for that money to go to his defense fund.” “Entertainment Tonight” licensed the video, which aired Wednesday.
Sources said Gordon, 25, visited the grave on Aug. 17 with members of
his team, but tipped photographers had staked out the cemetery for two
days to capture the dramatic scene.
Gordon’s facing a $10 million civil suit
brought by Bobbi Kristina’s conservator, which his reps blasted as
“slanderous.” It claims Gordon plied Bobbi Kristina with a “toxic
cocktail” and “put her face down in a tub of cold water, causing her to
suffer brain damage.”
A rep for Gordon sniffed of his payday: “This is completely
fabricated. I would also like to add, Page 6 [sic] isn’t a trusted
source in news.” An Enquirer rep said, “The National Enquirer, more than
any other publication, has been unflinching in our reporting of the
mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown.”
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