4bjb said:

Really? It seemed they were all over town in the fall. Even when Mayte had her belly dancing event, Mani was reported to have attended with Eric Benet. That was late fall. right?

Boogiebear said:

hee hee yes, I am a

Deadflow3r said:

yes, I agree with you on this. It has been said that Vanity and Prince broke up because he wanted to go to clubs with his bandmembers/entourage and Vanity stay home and watch videos waiting on him... except Vanity is not a stay at home watch video type... She is likely to go out to the clubs have a hookup and star in her own videos... if you get my drift. I have also heard that Prince was a little prudish when it came down to Vanity... she was too wild for him. so I think he wants obedient little lap dogs for his women. Don't ask, just do what you are told and look beautiful doing it.

Now Bria she ain't no kid. She has been linked to Eddie Murphy and Leo DeCaprio. This is not some shy girl all gushy and stuff. A couple of Diamond studs and a $1000 handbag ain't what she's looking for. Try a $15,000 Hermes Birken and some big, big bling. This chick did not seem the type to be dating a family practitioner; I think she aims for the guys with 8 or 9 figures at least. I don't know her and I could be ALL WRONG but everything seems to point that way.

[color=darkred] yep, I agree here as well. Bria sort of reminds me of a Anna Nicole... really looking for Mr. Goodbar. And doesn't matter how he looks, how short or tall he is, whether she gets the accolades and respect as the main woman as long as her object of affection make it rain, damn the rest!

Deadflow3r said:

That is why he gets involve with recent converts. Women who changed their gods for the man.

Boogiebear said:

I was just about to write the same thing. Prince is no different than any other male of means. He knows a man's power of persuasion is based on his apparent wealth and a woman's is based on her apparent beauty. Shallow, but true.

paintedlady said:

She might have left Prince because there was nothing left to stay for. I truly believe that he emotionally ditched his two wives and no matter what was done or said they emotionally could not get him back. Mani and Mayte are very different people with very different backgrounds. I think for sure that Prince is their strongest connection. They are two people who have been through the same thing and they can relate to each other. Both can't talk to others about their past with prince because others will tell two friends who tell two friends.

Have you ever been through a situation, job, or whatever and when you come out of it you want to ask somebody "Please tell me the truth, was it just me or was that place, man etc a bit nuts?"

I have run into people who worked in a place I worked at and we just laughed about a boss or whatever. Sometimes the only person that can understand you and reassure you that your not crazy is someone who has been there.

Wouldn't it be great if Mani and Mayte started an exwives/exgirlfriends club
imagine the juicy stories.

merrickjones69 said:

I would bet every penny that I have that those two have made eachother laugh hysterically on many an occasion.

OMG they would be comparing and have huge laugh on Prince's expense

Unfornatelty the only way we will hear all the juicy stories about Prince is when he is dead. I can bet on it people he was associated with will out of come out with tell all books.

I hope not if u can't do it when the person is alive. U sure don't do it when they die.

mayrain said:

LOVEVERY1 said:

unfortunately or fortunately, people can't sue you when they are dead. Prince is also said to have a good sense of humor and I am sure not all the stories would make him look weird. I also think if his wives wrote a book the stories or antics would not be taken out of context. I think that whole camel story that Kevin Smith told was probably somewhat taken out of context. Who knows, maybe the man just woke up or was awake for 48 hrs straight when he thought to request a camel in the wee early hours of the morning.


I do believe that both women loved him very much at one point and if they got together to write a book about the man it would cover the years from 1991 to 2006. Neither one of them strike me as hateful or vindictive wenches and I bet there would be some sweet stories mixed in with the more eccentric and painful.

This makes me wonder if Prince sets up his legal stuff just right maybe even when he is dead his estate will be able to stop stuff. I just think if u can't do something when the person is alive, when they die let all that stuff go with them. People should honor people's wishes no matter if they are dead or alive. That is how I see it I could be wrong but I just think it's better to say what you have to say when the person is alive.
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mayrain said:

2 minds think alike mayrain.....

l totally agree with u on every word u said here ...its true...
people just wont leave him alone...lve already said tht in the past on here one time abt this....he deserve the love and support from every one of us...

[Edited 3/15/10 14:12pm]

mayrain said:

My Tia's boyfriend just died of a heart attack in his sleep right beside her, and it really surprised everyone, I realized I wanted to ask him for some advice but I was nervous of mentioning my problem, in hindsight I wish I had asked what he thought cause now I'll never get to, we really should appreciate those we love while they are here, a lesson that is always relearned for me; ppl could be gone tomorrow literally

TwinFlame said:

Hugs for u. I learned this lesson and maybe that is why I come off so intense 2 some I try 2 say what I want in the moment u never know if it is your last with someone u care for.. Hugs and peace your way.

prodigalfan said:

I am one who previously posted that Eric Benet and Manuela are no longer together. I also have that information from reliable sources.

prodigalfan said:

I heard the same story

interactiveplayer said:

If this is true, Prince ain't shit.

maria1999 said:

Because neither Prince or Mani did not speak of why they got divorced, we don't know this is a fact.
However, Tamar never came forward either to say she was absolutely not the other woman. If there was talk about me on the web, that persisted, that I was a homewrecker I would clear that mess up in a heartbeat.


Personally I think he did pretty well, FOR HIM, with Mani. Mayte was out of the picture in 1999 and pretty much Mani was in . If you look at the pics of Manuela and Prince at the Lakers game xmas 2004 they look quite happy. I doubt at that time he was cheating on her. 5 years ( or more) with the same woman and not cheating on her is his record as far as I know. I think he really tried hard not to cheat because he was quite into being a Jehovah's Witness at that time and was trying to be true to his faith.

Everybody has weaknesses; his is sex and unfortunately that's a weakness that hurts other people.

WOW! People really are a trip.

mayrain said:

maybe we think about it too much; but he writes such great songs about women it's mind boggling that his relationships go so sour that some of the women loose contact with him.

I really do think that he wants things to work out with someone, he just can't get there and stay there. I will listen to his music no matter what but I still wish he'd stop all this serial monogomy/ polygamy for his own sake.


Mick Jagger was a slut-bunny forever but somehow he has been with this last woman for 7 years. He is also going on 67. Maybe Prince just needs another 7 years .

Deadflow3r said:

We were talking about the circumstances of Prince and MAYTE's divorce; not Mani.

I think Mani was in the picture by 1998. New Power Soul was released in June 1998. In this album Prince thanked Manuella on his liner and she appeared in the video "Come" and Prince is dressed as an old man and flirting with her (last 10 seconds of the video) Listen to the lyrics of Come. It sounds to me that if Prince was not bedding her, he was working hard to get her in bed. On same album appears the song "The One" that was about Mayte, his wife.

These songs were probably written and worked around 1997 summer or fall (since Prince's creative turn around time is pretty short... possibly as little 6 months prior to release of album he was writing these lyrics.)

Mayte and Prince was married in 1996, their family experienced tragedy that Fall. Within a year, Mani was in the picture strong. It is not too far fetched to believe that Mayte and Prince were grieving, Prince hit the road rather than stay home and hold Mayte's hand while she cried.... he said in an interview that he wished he could make his wife smile again (or something like that). So maybe he got tired of her grieving, maybe it annoyed him that she grieved. I also read in interview that Prince believed something like if you don't acknowledge that the loved one has died, they will return to you. Something like that. maybe Mayte had to grieve her way, to accept the loss and try to move on.
At any rate, Prince hit the road. Shortly after that, Mani joined the purple inner cirle. How she got entrance... who on the Org knows the real story. I have heard he spotted her at a concert and had his people invite her backstage and I have also heard she applied for job at Paisley Park and worked her way into his vicinity until she caught his eye. At any rate, Mayte was out of the country and visiting family in Spain and enjoying her new mansion that Prince bought for them, while he was in Minnie, recording, and going to JW conversion classes, and that was the hook. Mani it seems was interested in JW too! (Mayte, raised catholic was not). By the time Mayte was tipped off by girlfriends (her buddies) of bandmembers, Mani was redecorating Paisley Park and wearing Mayte's clothes at Celebration parties. More than 1 orger was at that party and recounted the redecorating and the infamous red dress.

^^ The stuff I read on the Org beats any gossip forumn hands down. Now of course I have to say... all speculation. I wasn't there, never been to Minneapolis, but I have read very similar accounts of same story from several long time Orgers, some who either live in Minnie and was at PP all the time for the Celebrations, or is acquainted with insider and heard the gossip that way. One Orger used to be a tailor for Prince before that orger died... so there are some Insiders here on the Org.

Okay, all of this is new to me, because until registering here, I only knew bits and peices about Prince's personal business.
Being on the org has helped me put some of the peices together.
This is what I believe.
That stuff about Mani is true, because Prince has a history of flaunting his new interest in front of his current, yet dying flames. Remember he was messing around with Susan and Vanity (although, I don't know who he was with first between the two), he had Nona Gaye come to a concert of his, only for her to see him with Mayte (who was sporting an engagement ring to boot), that whole letting Mani redecorate and wear Mayte's dress, and so on. And we haven't even taken into considerate all of his nameless indiscretions. What I think is the most incredible part of all this, is that both Mayte and Mani may have thought that they had Prince because they exchanged vows. Obviously, it's nothing special to be loved by Prince.
I wonder has he ever been diagnosed with either ADD or some form of autism?

Boogiebear said:

I hope Prince has eyes 2 see, ears to hear. Feet 2 walk and a mouth that speaks truth at all times. I also wish him nothing but love and truth. I hope he sees the real from the fake.

mayrain said:

I hope he takes a good hard look at himself and sees the people he has hurt in the past. It may feel better to be the one breaking hearts instead of the one with a broken heart but either way.... nobody wins. Mayte, Mani, Nona, Sheila, Susannah and more.. all got played by him. The women may not be innocent either but who really knows but them.

^

And that is why, I don't envy ANYONE that gives her heart to Prince Rogers Nelson, the man. The artist can write the most beautiful love songs... passion filled pose set to beautiful melodic music... but to the man... it appears that those songs are "just words".

Deadflow3r said:

I do agree with the emotional checking out done by Prince theory, but also add to that. Prince is a black man by culture, and Mani herself said in an interview regarding her marriage to Prince as boring.
I believe both Mani and Mayte that are younger than Prince just became bored after they got to know the real man behind all fame. Add both those factors and you get a woman that just doesn't want a lifetime with that man regardless of how she may have felt before.

What I don't get is the concept of Prince in courtship vs. Prince the husband.
Is his behavior the same? Or like most normal people does he turn his focus back to his music after he wins her hand in marriage? A man who always puts career first will always be alone. I don't think he has to cheat to lose a woman if he is just putting his music first all the time and saying
"Do you know how many women would love to be my wife?"
"This is what you signed up for remember, woman you knew my music always comes first"
"I'm sorry I wasn't there again, but you know this is my life... I'll make it up to you"

I think its pretty clear why things with both women didn't work out... reality took a HARD bite outta both Mayte's and Manuella's asses.

That's what happen when you get with someone who is 20 years older than you.
It's all new and exciting in the beginning because you are probably fresh out a relationship with someone in your own generation (you know the situation...you are sooo childish, immature, etc) and here comes this older person who is charming, mature, etc. But then you realize that you really don't have that much in common. In most cases, unless someone accepts complacency (it's usually the younger of the two), then its over.
Personal note:
My mom is twenty years younger than my dad. They had recently divorced. My mom's reason is that it got old. "What attracted me to him in the beginning is what turned me off in the end". My dad was the same person throughout(as I imagine Prince is), it was Mayte, Mani, and my mother who had changed how they felt.