Whitney Houston Files For Divorce

Whitney Houston has filed for divorce from her husband, Bobby Brown, her publicist told The ShowBuzz on Wednesday. Bobby Brown's lawyer, however, says Houston is seeking a legal separation, not a divorce.

Nancy Seltzer said she would not be offering additional details. Brown's lawyer says that Brown would have no comment.

"I am sorry but I'm not putting out a statement, just confirming that she has filed for divorce," Seltzer said.

Houston has filed papers in Orange County Superior Court requesting a legal separation from her husband of 14 years. She cited irreconcilable differences.

The couple, who married in 1992, have had a sometimes-tumultuous marriage, and rumors of their breakup have surfaced often over the years.

They have one child, 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

Recently, the couple appeared in Brown's 2005 reality show, "Being Bobby Brown," which aired on Bravo.

Houston, 43, had her greatest musical success in the 1980s and '90s when she had several No. 1 records on Billboard's Hot 100 including the megahit "I Will Always Love You," from the 1992 film "The Bodyguard," in which she also starred opposite Kevin Costner.

In recent years she's been an executive producer on the popular Raven-Symone films "The Cheetah Girls" and "The Cheetah Girls 2."

Her musician husband recently reunited with his old soul group New Edition for a show at July's Essence Musical Festival. The show got mixed reviews from the audience when Brown jumped suggestively around the stage and made vulgar remarks about his sex life with Houston.

Brown, 37, has had a history of drug and alcohol arrests and was sentenced to 90 days in jail in 2004 for missing three months of child support payments for two other children.

He was arrested in March on minor motor-vehicle violations dating back 14 years when he visited Webster, Mass., to watch one of his children take part in a cheerleading tournament.