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"Whitney Houston&amp;apos;s public memorial at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, has been canceled, TMZ confirms. The arena sits 18,000 people.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;The Houston family has no plans to set up a public viewing at the Prudential Center this Friday,&amp;quot; a rep for mayor Cory Booker tells the site. &amp;quot;In compliance with the family&amp;apos;s wishes, the city is not moving forward with any public ceremony.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHouston -- who was found lifeless in her Beverly Hilton hotel room on Saturday -- was 48 at the time of her death. The &amp;quot;Exhale (Shoop Shoop)&amp;quot; singer and six-time Grammy Award winner is survived by her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 18, and her mother, Cissy Houston, 78.\r\n\r\nOn Tuesday, Houston&amp;apos;s rep confirmed to Us Weekly that the singer&amp;apos;s funeral will take place at noon Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. The service is invitation-only."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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