THE FBI SAYS WHITNEY HOUSTON RECIEVED DEATH THREATS!

While Whitney Houston fans were flocking to her blockbuster Hollywood movie about a diva stalked by a killer, the singer needed a bodyguard in real life.

Only instead of Kevin Costner, her co-star in “The Bodyguard,” the FBI was watching Houston’s back, newly-released files revealed Monday.

Houston was targeted for blackmail in 1992 by a “friend” who threatened to spill the beans on her “romantic relationships” if she wasn’t paid $250,000, according to the FBI documents.

Houston was targeted for blackmail in 1992 by a “friend” who threatened to spill the beans on her “romantic relationships” if she wasn’t paid $250,000, according to the FBI documents.

But the heavily-redacted 128-page file, which covers 1988 through 1993, does not name the alleged blackmailer or dish the details of the threat against the drug-addled singer, who drowned in a bathtub last year. She was 48.

The first report that Houston “was being extorted” was in a November 1992 memo.

It goes on to say that an unidentified Chicago lawyer sent a letter to Houston’s company in Ft. Lee, N.J., threatening to release “certain details of (the singer’s) private life” if she did not pay $100,000 to an unnamed person.

Houston told the FBI “she doesn’t know what (the alleged blackmailer) could write about, and went on to say that contrary to public belief...”

Intriguingly, the rest of the sentence in the memo is redacted.

The memo picks up later with Houston admitting she had discussed “personal things” with this person. But the singer insisted she had never been threatened and the alleged blackmailer told her “she would never do anything to embarrass her.”

In a Dec. 15, 1992 memo, a Special Agent reports he questioned the lawyer who said her client “has knowledge of intimate details regarding Whitney Houston’s romantic relationships, and will go public with the information” unless the person was paid $250,000.

In the end, the FBI concluded in a Jan. 12, 1993 letter to then U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff there was “no evidence that a federal criminal law had been violated.”

Houston was plagued at the height of her career by obsessed fans who deluged her with mail, presents and flowers.

The FBI file notes two other alleged threats against Houston, but both are far more benign.

In the first case, an unidentified Vermont man who sent Houston 79 letters over a 17 month span was questioned after writing to Houston’s father, John, that he “might hurt someone with some crazy idea and not realize how stupid an idea it was until after it was done.”

FBI agents concluded, after questioning the man in 1988, he was just an obsessed fan.

The feds also intervened after a Dutch man allegedly sent Houston threatening tapes.

The man, who also fancied himself “President of Europe” and claimed to own the country of Brazil, stopped pestering Houston after the FBI threatened him with prosecution.

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