CalhounSq said:

i always thought it was about Prince's preferences. He's been with women of many different ethnicities, but he has a preference, not an issue.

CalhounSq said:

I agree with you totally. It seems that some woman on here have issues with themselves that don't have anything to do with color. Black is beautiful period. And the wonderful thing about our race is that it spans the entire spectrum of the rainbow....you dig! And by the way light skined blacks hair happens to be just as nappy as dark skined ones, thats what relaxers are for
I myself have a white boyfriend, and have only dated white guys since high school. Prince is not light enough for me.....
So please people lets not take a step back in time with stupid shit like this!

There are Plenty of Beautiful Black woman and Plenty Beautiful White woman and Plenty Beautiful Latino and Aisan woman. I said I think Mani is Cool. I just wanted her being all freaky and stuff. She is with Prince the Ultimate SexManGod. Lol. His woman gotta be Fly and All. Of Course ,I'll Always love Mayte. I'm sick of these Guys who Twist Shit Thinking I Left My Ex's for Prince or Don't date cause of Prince. I Left Them cause I wanted to and well we Didn't Get along. I don't Date cause I don't want to. When I do though...It's young guys 18-32 usually my type. Older guys Hate My Music and My Lifestyle and we don't Gel. Plus I wear em Out. It never works..I've tried and well I Certainly don't want a DADDY! I ALREADY Have One! Prince is Married. If he Wanted me the man would Come and Ask me Out so..He doesn't and I'm Free to date Whomever I want to. I'm Terribly Picky ANYWAY....

4everYoung said:

Let's agree to call it what we want to, 'kay?

strawberrydreams said:

I was with you until you got to the relaxers & White guys


Prince fans

CalhounSq said:

Well said . Yeah Prince seems to have a preference for a certain type of women when it comes to dating, but whether you are most fascinated sexually by black, white, Asian or hispanic looking people has not to do anything with racism....I am white with a very light skin and what difference does it make that a guy like Prince would never be interested in me...none . Some people think I am beautiful and of course that's flattering, others don't , so what.....How sad would our world be if everybody was attracted by the same looks.

CalhounSq said:

CalhounSq said:

LOL

Dang! I never knew that Mani was a fan of Prince's before they married. Interesting...

This was my serious plan in high school (graduated 1990) - Graduate from school, move to MPLS, and basically leave it up to destiny to somehow meet Prince and marry him. I know that is sounds silly now, but I was totally serious back then. My parents thought I was nuts. But see, it could of worked! Prince does date/marry fans!

Oh, well. I've been married to my own sexy, sweet-thang for 13 years now. As a matter of fact, when I was introduced to him, I was told that "everyone says that he looks like Prince."

dustysgirl said:

Dustysgirl, I am so glad you posted this. I had a similar plan, too, but I gave up when I realized how long the train ride was from Connecticut to Minn. And I don't fly. Well, I haven't completely given up.

Anyway, I have dated people who look like prince. I dated one guy who looked like the Prince on the DIRTY MIND COVER. And my sister (a Prince addict, too) dated a guy who looked like COMPUTER BLUE Prince and he was short, too!! Now that I think about it, all the guys I'm attracted to look like Prince in some way.

LittleLamb said:

...you people are actually SERIOUS??!!!! I give you to actually reveal, but on the on the real....

Well! I'm Very Mad about what Happened in Minnesota so I won't Ever Go Back LONG TERM... I'll Move to CaliFornia Next Stop. He Marries Fans but If Ya get Too Excited Over him he Freaks out. He wants someone Dull or Dead Rather I suppose. Not my Style to play Dumb or Dead. I Love him more than words could Ever Describe and I have my Own plan at Success so I have to Follow the plan. I wish Prince was a Buddist....

Starmist7 said:

I'M SAYIN'!!!

apple2 said:

HEE HEE!!!!! MANI IS GIVING ALL YOU HATIN ASS CHICKENHEADZ THE SCREWFACE.....LOL


SHE ON SOME LIKE "WHAT? BITCH WHAT?" .....TYPE SHIT IN THAT PIC...LOL

Yes, I'm quoting myself. But I'm just replying to the last post. I was trying to say the same thing:



But she (sorry PRINCE) looks like the chickenhead in this photo. It looks as though she grew up rough (with that WHAT? BITCH WHAT?" attitude) I would be scared to cross her. But you can tell she had to learn "class"

I saw those earlier pictures. She looks street.
[This message was edited Wed Aug 25 7:00:42 2004 by TheDreamingPeasant]

I dont hate Mani, I just miss Mayte's fine ass pumping around the stage.
I like the new grown-up Prince, but not as much as the chick-flaunting Prince.

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FROM SEX GOD TO DOORSTEP BIBLE BASHER

Apr 10 2004


LOVE GIVES POP LEGEND A NEW PURPLE PATCH

By Nick Webster


ON the quiet suburban streets of Minneapolis, he cuts a remarkable figure. Dressed in a tailor-made suit and trademark stack heels, he steps lightly out of his purring limo and, surrounded by four bodyguards, approaches the modest picket-fenced homes.

And to each astonished resident opening their doors to the peculiar group, multi-millionaire superstar Prince quietly asks: "Would you like to talk about Jesus?"

Welcome to the new world of the man who once outraged a nation with the song Sexy MF and who changed his name to a symbol. Gone are the wild parties, the womanizing and the bizarre all-purple lifestyle. Instead, 45-year-old Prince's hedonistic excesses have been replaced with door-to-door preaching and Bible study classes.

Credit for this remarkable transformation, the Daily Mirror can reveal, is down to his mother's dying wishes, new wife Manuela Testolini, who, at 27, is 18 years his junior, and his baptism as a Jehovah's Witness.

It is Manuela - the fan-turned-employee-turned-spouse - who has stood by his side as he embraced his new faith and it is she who has helped him return to the musical spotlight after years of obscurity.

This month sees the release of his critically acclaimed new album Musicology and he recently made a triumphant return to performing at the Grammy awards.

The bid to recapture his position among the pop elite is music to the ears of Canadian-born Manuela.

Prince - who has romanced a string of women, including Sheena Easton, Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, Madonna, Kim Basinger, Kristin Scott Thomas and Carmen Electra - has never been a big fan of monogamy.

But now, in middle-age, he seems to have adopted it with Manuela.

But the way he and Mani, as she is known, met and married is a strange combination of fairytale and stalker fantasy.

She grew up in a tiny two-bed apartment in a run-down block on the thundering Don Mills Road in Toronto, Canada.

She was a plain teenager who, as a high school student, was known as an avid Prince fan.

Her passion for the diminutive musician continued at York University in Toronto - where she studied for a degree in art - to the detriment of her social life.

FELLOW student Sorayah Kassim-Lakha remembers her regularly playing her hero's hits, particularly If I Was Your Girlfriend and I Wanna Be Your Lover.

"Mani was always very quiet at college," Sorayah says. "She didn't go in for parties and stuff like that.

"She was only ever interested in her art and in Prince. She was obsessed with him. It's all she ever talked about."

Mani was a frequent visitor to the internet fan club alt.music.prince, a forum devoted to her then hero and now husband.

She admitted to being a "lurker" - someone who watches what others say but seldom joins in conversations.

One of the UK fans who did talk to her online was Antony Golding from Bolton, Lancs.

"It's all a bit surreal," he says. "She was just a fan who posted a couple of messages and then suddenly she was working at his Paisley Park recording studios... and then she was his wife."

Manuela graduated from university in the summer of 1998 and soon after she landed her dream job working with the singer. That year, she received a brief credit on Prince's New Power Soul album.

Twelve months later, she became his assistant. Rumors quickly began to circulate that she was more than just a member of staff before his marriage to first wife Mayte Garcia was annulled in May 2000.

Less than three years earlier, Mayte had given birth to the couple's son Gregory, who tragically only lived a week before dying from the rare bone condition Pfeiffer Syndrome, a genetic skull deformity.

SOON after the annulment, Prince, who was once worth £100million, took Manuela with him to Bible study classes with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

After a hush-hush romance, superstar and fan tied the knot in a Jehovah's Witness wedding in Hawaii on New Year's Eve 2001.

A year later, in a private ceremony at the Kingdom Hall in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Prince and Mani were baptized into their new faith in front of the 167-strong congregation.

A small bathtub-sized pool was hired for the occasion. Wearing knee-length robes with swimsuits underneath, they became full members of the church by being immersed in the pool.

Ronald Scofield - one of the elders of the Chanhassen Congregation, Prince's new place of worship - says it was a special day for all.

"Every time one of our members gets baptized it's exciting. But this was exceptionally exciting because it was someone who has made a lot of changes to their life.

"We have watched Prince since he started studying the Bible and noticed a dramatic change. It's something to be very proud of."

The death of Prince's mother, jazz singer Mattie Shaw, was a turning point for the star, who has sold more than 100 million albums.

Her dying wishes were for him to become a Jehovah's Witness, as she had been for most of her life, and to see him married. He tied the knot with Mani weeks before his mother passed away and six months after the death of his father, pianist and bandleader John L Nelson.

As part of his new life, Prince and Manuela pay weekly visits to the residents of Minneapolis. At times, Scofield accompanies the couple and their bodyguards.

HE admits it can take a good few minutes before stunned homeowners recover from the shock of finding a superstar at their door.

Speaking publicly about Prince's new beliefs for the first time, Scofield confirms: "He's so well known that when he turns up on people's doorsteps, it really surprises them.

"To see him in a Christian lifestyle is very pleasant. He's doing very well and spiritually he seems to be making a great deal of progress, too.

"We go on Bible studies together and work in field service, the door-to-door ministry that Jehovah's Witnesses are known for. When you get past the initial shock of actually meeting Prince, he is very persuasive. He uses the scriptures very well."

After a decade of seclusion, the man christened Prince Rogers Nelson is back to being plain old Prince and playing the hits that made him famous such as Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy and Little Red Corvette.

And no longer is he synonymous with Paisley Park and Minneapolis.

These days, he and Manuela spend much of their time in Los Angeles or the sprawling £3million grey stone mansion he bought at 61 The Bridle Path in an up market area of Toronto. At first, mystery surrounded the purchase of the luxury home by a firm called Gamillah Holdings, until it was discovered that the company's president is one Manuela Testolini.

While the couple is away touring the US, builders are constructing a large gatehouse and a new fence, complete with tennis court and pool.

Though it seems a world away, the estate is just a five-minute drive from Mani's parents' tiny apartment.

Despite the age gap and the star's colorful past, Prince has been welcomed with open arms by the Testolini family.

In January, residents of the village of Calabogie - on the outskirts of Ottawa - couldn't believe their eyes when he and Mani arrived in a gleaming limousine for the modest wedding of her sister Daniela to businessman Michael Dykeman. Onlookers say Prince and his wife happily mingled with the other 80 guests during the reception at the Dickson Manor ski lodge.

The singer admits that along with a new wife, he also has a new set of values. "There's no more envelope to push," he says. "I pushed it off the table. It's on the floor. Let's move forward."

PRINCE also says that TV viewers are now bombarded with dirty music videos.

"Back when I made sexy tunes, the sexiest thing on TV was Dynasty and if you watch it now, it's like the Brady Bunch," he explains.

"My song Darling Nikki was considered porn because I said the word masturbate. That's not me any more."

But with the new tour and album to sell, maybe the wife and new beliefs are just another marketing tool being used by one of the world's ultimate showmen.

Among those with a view about the "new" Prince is Minneapolis gossip columnist CJ, who has followed his career for years, much to the annoyance of the artist himself who wrote a song about her called Billy Jack Bitch.

"A lot of credit is being given to Manuela," she says.

"Both his parents died recently, too. And that's the last barrier to realizing that you, too, will die. Maybe that's the reason for the change in personality.

"He was always capable of monogamy but the man got bored quickly. The traumatic death of his baby changed all that. It affected him in a big way.

"People are curious as to why he's changed. The joke here in Minneapolis is that it looks like they finally got the medication right."

ekalb101 said:[quote]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=14134817&method=full&


FROM SEX GOD TO DOORSTEP BIBLE BASHER

Apr 10 2004


LOVE GIVES POP LEGEND A NEW PURPLE PATCH

By Nick Webster


Credit for this remarkable transformation, the Daily Mirror can reveal, is down to his mother's dying wishes, new wife Manuela Testolini, who, at 27, is 18 years his junior, and his baptism as a Jehovah's Witness.

It is Manuela - the fan-turned-employee-turned-spouse - who has stood by his side as he embraced his new faith and it is she who has helped him return to the musical spotlight after years of obscurity.


SOON after the annulment, Prince, who was once worth £100million, took Manuela with him to Bible study classes with the Jehovah's Witnesses.

After a hush-hush romance, superstar and fan tied the knot in a Jehovah's Witness wedding in Hawaii on New Year's Eve 2001.

A year later, in a private ceremony at the Kingdom Hall in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Prince and Mani were baptized into their new faith in front of the 167-strong congregation.

A small bathtub-sized pool was hired for the occasion. Wearing knee-length robes with The death of Prince's mother, jazz singer Mattie Shaw, was a turning point for the star, who has sold more than 100 million albums.

Her dying wishes were for him to become a Jehovah's Witness, as she had been for most of her life, and to see him married. He tied the knot with Mani weeks before his mother passed away and six months after the death of his father, pianist and bandleader John L Nelson.

But with the new tour and album to sell, maybe the wife and new beliefs are just another marketing tool being used by one of the world's ultimate showmen.

Among those with a view about the "new" Prince is Minneapolis gossip columnist CJ, who has followed his career for years, much to the annoyance of the artist himself who wrote a song about her called Billy Jack Bitch.

"A lot of credit is being given to Manuela," she says.

"Both his parents died recently, too. And that's the last barrier to realizing that you, too, will die. Maybe that's the reason for the change in personality.

"He was always capable of monogamy but the man got bored quickly. The traumatic death of his baby changed all that. It affected him in a big way.




Is it me or does this sound like a JW posting this? Hmmmmm. Makes me wonder why. With all the trauma is Prince's life around the time Mani latched on no wonder he'd fall for this. Why give Mani the "credit?" Who wouldn't be happy to marry Prince? I'd guess any number of fams would join the JW's just to be near Prince.
[This message was edited Wed Aug 25 20:17:10 2004 by Vital]

DarkKnight1 said:

First of all let me state that I am happily married , and am not the least bit jealous of thier marriage. Now, I will state that I do not feel that Mani is the woman most deserving of Princes' new found monogamy and dedication. Mayte for instance, bore his child and stood by his side during the rough times with Warner Brothers. There are probably countless other women in Prince's past that had actual true love for him, but he was not ready at that time to accept it. In my opinion, he should explore other options, or better yet look up Mayte and patch things up...Mani was in the right place at the right time when Prince and Mayte were having problems..Let's name Mani "The Clean-up Woman"....

yellagrey said:

This is not a diss towards Mayte, but please don't give Mayte too much credit.....if she had really stood by Prince during the "rough times" she would probably still be Mrs. Nelson. It is a known fact that it was indeed Mani who stood by Prince during the "rougher times" : the passing of both of his parents, the struggle with Warners and the list goes on. Per Prince's dying mother's request, she wanted him to remarry...I'm sure she put her two cents worth in about whom the lucky lady should have been. Obviously, Mattie (rest in peace) got her wish before she passed, Mrs. Manuela Testolini-Nelson. Enough said....

preciosa863 said:

Preciosa, you are correct - she is Mrs. Manuela Testolini-Nelson. But, Mayte was Mrs. Mayte Garcia-Nelson. I do not wish divorce on anyone. But, the same way that Mani got him; may be the same way that she loses him - karma!!!!

Ya Know What a freaky Game one would be Playing ..I Actually Love the Idea. Cracking me up thinking bout such a Nonsense thing but Terriffic for the Press. Ya Know. LOl. Hilarious...Oh God... I Could get lost in the Drama since I Create such as the QUEEN..It's So Wonderful a High..LOL.. Play the Game and Laugh so Hard.. But Ya know Ihad to watch It cause I Created Too Much Fire that I Couldn't Control it. I Adore Shit Like this. Probably why Prince Makes me Dance so damn Much. Cause it's Freaky Thinking bout Fantasy Stories and Weirdness. Such Fun in a sickkly Twisted Hilarious way....Games are Fun..LOL...

If and only if I am Healed from this Pain and suffering I will join the Jehovah's and Completely change my life until then I'll be a Non-Believer.

Some of u sound like u r squawking about a stag of 1 of the backstreet boys.

Lordy isn't it about time 2break away from the "teen phase!?" Ur survival should hinge on something a little bit more complex… no?

All 1 can do is hope Mani is good 4Prince & visa versa... & if it seems like they r not... hope harder 4 them 2work things out!

& save the judgments 4 Heavenly Father/God/G-D/Jehovah/Jesus or whoeva the hell is gonna b present in r personal tribunal, when that day comes.






Burn all boybands edit
[This message was edited Thu Aug 26 0:43:10 2004 by harmony]

yellagrey said:

Thank you. Could not agree more.

I have to admit that this is the funniest picture I've seen and so true!

Look - this has been hashed out a thousand times or more. They are married, end of story. Let's just see how the movie ends. Stop bickering over the where and when it will all crash into the wall. 'Cause in the big picture, it just doesn't matter. They actually might make it and good for them if they do. I would love to see him happy with a family of his own, even if it is with her. You reap what you sow, so she better tread with a big stick! You never know when the next one might get hired.....

Yes, let's see how this movie ends...

That is so funny about "when the next one might get hired!" Do you think Mani would let him hire another PRETTY GIRL!

I have no plans to change my Religion.

Other then that, I agree with what you say.

Vital said:[quote]

ekalb101 said: