DD55 said:

morningsong said:

PrplGem said: Every last dime of hard earned $100,000 because you like somebody? To do that you're either very stupid or about business. I don't believe she was ever stupid.

Morningsong, to you comment ‘to do that you’re either very stupid or all about business’ The third option is emotion.

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How many times have we all of heard storis of a smart, successfull, educated, wealthy woman who falls for a guy only to be taken to the cleaners?

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So, yeah, she could have just stayed and spent her own money because she just couldn’t bring herself to leave him. Love makes people blind and they sometimes do things that is not in their own best interest.

Mayte had a mama who had sense enough to make a plan on how she was going to get out of PR at a young age, I highly doubt she didn't instill some of that in her daughter. Mayte's parents put a lot of time and energy into their children just to suddenly let go like that. The events that transpired were not pure happenstance. Keep believing, though.

Maybe, but I ask you this. Why do people look at her actions and give her the benefit of the doubt but assume the worst about Prince (immediate assumptions that a busy man like Prince knows the salaries of his many employees and is intentionally underpaying them for example.)

. IN other words, it would be quite easy to guess she had an agenda..just looking at the facts. YOung women with big dancing ambitions and stage parents dates rich extremely influential rock star and on the anniversary of his death releases a book described as a tell-all in a magazine and gives one percent of the profits to a animal charity. And from this love story of a book lets the more shocking details be cherry picked for a magazine. Now, I don't think it is fair to judge her based just on those facts (even if the timing and cherry picking disturb me). I don't necessarily think she is lying about P or hates him. But a part of me thinks she (perhaps unknowingly) wants the world to think of her Saint Mayte..lover of the flawed but "beautiful" Prince.

On the book club thread, Prince's courting of her and love letters are dismissed as just Prince being a player because he didn't live up to his earlier promises later in the relationship. But let me ask you folks, what was his ulterior motive then for wooing her? What did he have to gain? Mayte was a good dancer. But people paid to see him and he could have just hired a belly dancer. He could get anyone in the sack without wooing them or marrying them. How hard would it have been to get any legal and illegal young woman he wanted with a snap of the fingers. Folks believe every single word Mayte says and question none of her attentions but question all of his sincerity constantly. He made many mistakes as a hubby obviously and wasn't always truthful but why the constant worst assumptions (even when Mayte suggests otherwise). He never hid the other women in the beginning. She knew about Carmen but chose to proceed. Don't give me the youth defense. According to her, she was a worldly young woman who could recognize a slimeball when she danced in front of them in Cairo and had cheating parents..

Someone said that she accepted P's cheating because of her parents relationship. But could one argue that if she accepted P's cheating for this reason, she would also see nothing wrong with herself doing the cheating as well. There are rumors she cheated. Maybe they are B.S, but rumors are constantly believed about P and every woman who has ever worked with him (minus the married ones).

DD55 said:

morningsong said:

PrplGem said: Every last dime of hard earned $100,000 because you like somebody? To do that you're either very stupid or about business. I don't believe she was ever stupid.

Morningsong, to you comment ‘to do that you’re either very stupid or all about business’ The third option is emotion.

.

How many times have we all of heard storis of a smart, successfull, educated, wealthy woman who falls for a guy only to be taken to the cleaners?

.

So, yeah, she could have just stayed and spent her own money because she just couldn’t bring herself to leave him. Love makes people blind and they sometimes do things that is not in their own best interest.

[Edited 4/12/17 20:49pm]

[Edited 4/12/17 20:52pm]

purplerabbithole said:

Maybe, but I ask you this. Why do people look at her actions and give her the benefit of the doubt but assume the worst about Prince (immediate assumptions that a busy man like Prince knows the salaries of his many employees and is intentionally underpaying them for example.)

. IN other words, it would be quite easy to guess she had an agenda..just looking at the facts. YOung women with big dancing ambitions and stage parents dates rich extremely influential rock star and on the anniversary of his death releases a book described as a tell-all in a magazine and gives one percent of the profits to a animal charity. And from this love story of a book lets the more shocking details be cherry picked for a magazine. Now, I don't think it is fair to judge her based just on those facts (even if the timing and cherry picking disturb me). I don't necessarily think she is lying about P or hates him. But a part of me thinks she (perhaps unknowingly) wants the world to think of her Saint Mayte..lover of the flawed but "beautiful" Prince.

On the book club thread, Prince's courting of her and love letters are dismissed as just Prince being a player because he didn't live up to his earlier promises later in the relationship. But let me ask you folks, what was his ulterior motive then? What did he have to gain? Mayte was a good dancer. But people paid to see him and he could have just hired a belly dancer. He could get anyone in the sack without wooing them or marrying them. How hard would it have been to get any woman he wanted with a snap of the fingers. Folks believe every single word Mayte says and question none of her attentions but question all of his sincerity constantly. He made many mistakes as a hubby obviously and wasn't always truthful but why the constant worst assumptions. . He never hid the other women in the beginning. She knew about Carmen but chose to proceed. Don't give me the youth. According to her, she was a worldly young woman who could recognize a slimeball when she danced in front of them in Cairo and had cheating parents..

(SPOILER?) I'd just wonder which gal Prince was seeing whenever he was doing his "production" work out in LA while little underage Mayte was left in Minnesota. I read in her book that during 1 week Mayte was left and encouraged to hang out with with Carmen--1 time only--when she learned the extent of the Carmen/Prince relationship. Mayte did ask Prince what was going on with him & Carmen, and he lied.

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Prince was SUCH a playa' right up to the moment that he proposed to Mayte, who by then had indeed been inducted to his stable 'o gals.

>

Prince would isolate Mayte from other band members & entourage--the people he had control over. I think that he really did want her to stay around and have unfettered access to the girl. So many jealous, suspicious people here tend to ignore that notion, focusing on however they wish to examine Mayte's potential motivations. But it takes 2 and P. ultimately paved the way to their own personal glamslam, purple boys and girls, even though he might have had U!

purplerabbithole said:

On the book club thread, Prince's courting of her and love letters are dismissed as just Prince being a player because he didn't live up to his earlier promises later in the relationship. But let me ask you folks, what was his ulterior motive then? What did he have to gain?

Prince FREAKING Mayte & vice versa, like the freak-master that he was, was the motive--duh. He also wanted someone with whom he could be with in an easy way, which he seemed to have with her, and to have someone whom he could trust. He believed in her, & she did her best to please him as she says over and again in the bio. Just sayin'!

purplerabbithole said:

rogifan said:

purplerabbithole said:

Is Jill Jones throwing shade at Mayte as well? Or she is just being neutral?

She posted the following from Apollonia's page...

https://www.facebook.com/JillJonesUniverse

And Jill wrote the following...

SHAKTI Power in the room👍💥.
I ❤️ALL of these strong, magnetic, " authentically conscientious, " shakti empowered" women. ❤️❤️
Great night. Xx Celebrating the release of Andre Cymone's new album, "1969". Gig to follow on Avril 11 at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood! Official release party show. xo

If this is a recent event where they were together how is she throwing shade? I know the org is pro-Mayte but my God not everything people say or do is throwing shade at her.

The event was yesterday, so I agree with you, it "seems" unrelated to the book release/tour.

[Edited 4/12/17 23:53pm]

moonsister said:

I think Mani is just using the pic in a spiteful way to try and hurt Mayte's feelings since Mayte got in some pretty good digs at Mani in her book. Mani can't write a book without showing her hand as a crazed horny little fanatic, so using Facebook to jab back at Mayte is the only way she has to publicly rub Mayte's nose in the fact that ultimately Prince chose her over Mayte. I guess Mani hasn't figured out yet that she's not the only one who knows Prince was half out of his mind and hurting women was something he simply had to do, even though he knew it was wrong, hence the neurosis of our favorite genius. I'm sure he wondered lots of times why he did the things he did but taking pain pills dampens the introspective caring side of us humans, so take them he did. That's what drugs are for when used improperly. Mani, Prince wasn't that hard to figure out and as a husband, he was a bit of a Boobie Prize. So congrats I guess? You won? [Edited 4/13/17 3:31am]

That's right because PRince was a puppetmaster and no one else had self interest at heart. People used the crap out of Prince. HE was a womanizer sure. But he was in the position to just snap his fingers and get what he wanted. Instead, he took his time and wooed, courted and gave careers to several women and any number of them could have left whenever they wanted to.

Germanegro said:

purplerabbithole said:

Maybe, but I ask you this. Why do people look at her actions and give her the benefit of the doubt but assume the worst about Prince (immediate assumptions that a busy man like Prince knows the salaries of his many employees and is intentionally underpaying them for example.)

. IN other words, it would be quite easy to guess she had an agenda..just looking at the facts. YOung women with big dancing ambitions and stage parents dates rich extremely influential rock star and on the anniversary of his death releases a book described as a tell-all in a magazine and gives one percent of the profits to a animal charity. And from this love story of a book lets the more shocking details be cherry picked for a magazine. Now, I don't think it is fair to judge her based just on those facts (even if the timing and cherry picking disturb me). I don't necessarily think she is lying about P or hates him. But a part of me thinks she (perhaps unknowingly) wants the world to think of her Saint Mayte..lover of the flawed but "beautiful" Prince.

On the book club thread, Prince's courting of her and love letters are dismissed as just Prince being a player because he didn't live up to his earlier promises later in the relationship. But let me ask you folks, what was his ulterior motive then? What did he have to gain? Mayte was a good dancer. But people paid to see him and he could have just hired a belly dancer. He could get anyone in the sack without wooing them or marrying them. How hard would it have been to get any woman he wanted with a snap of the fingers. Folks believe every single word Mayte says and question none of her attentions but question all of his sincerity constantly. He made many mistakes as a hubby obviously and wasn't always truthful but why the constant worst assumptions. . He never hid the other women in the beginning. She knew about Carmen but chose to proceed. Don't give me the youth. According to her, she was a worldly young woman who could recognize a slimeball when she danced in front of them in Cairo and had cheating parents..

(SPOILER?) I'd just wonder which gal Prince was seeing whenever he was doing his "production" work out in LA while little underage Mayte was left in Minnesota. I read in her book that during 1 week Mayte was left and encouraged to hang out with with Carmen--1 time only--when she learned the extent of the Carmen/Prince relationship. Mayte did ask Prince what was going on with him & Carmen, and he lied.

>

Prince was SUCH a playa' right up to the moment that he proposed to Mayte, who by then had indeed been inducted to his stable 'o gals.

>

Prince would isolate Mayte from other band members & entourage--the people he had control over. I think that he really did want her to stay around and have unfettered access to the girl. So many jealous, suspicious people here tend to ignore that notion, focusing on however they wish to examine Mayte's potential motivations. But it takes 2 and P. ultimately paved the way to their own personal glamslam, purple boys and girls, even though he might have had U!

Purplestar88 said:

moonsister said:

Purplestar88 said:

Not that I think Mayte's book was 100% honest, and all three of these people are way less than able to always do the right thing, so I think they are pretty average human beings, except Prince of course, and his musical genius. But to dismiss his womanizing as cute or acceptable is to refuse to see the real hurt and devastation a womanizer can do to a weak woman. I mean just because she is weak she deserves whatever bad treatment she gets? If Prince was flirting with me I'd find myself very weak and so would the rest of you!

I never saw anyone who thought his womanizing was cute or acceptable but at the end of the day she knew he loved the ladies before he married her, so why should anyone feel sorry for her and think of her as weak. Things were right infont of her face and she went ahead with the relationship. At some point she as to take responsibility for her actions and decisions. As for Mai she entered the relationship the wrong way and in the end it back fired it seems. Prince was a hottie but I feel Mani smelled money and fame. We don't for sure if he was taking pain pills at that time to really put it in any context on how it effected his behavior at the time.

moonsister said:

I think Mani is just using the pic in a spiteful way to try and hurt Mayte's feelings since Mayte got in some pretty good digs at Mani in her book. Mani can't write a book without showing her hand as a crazed horny little fanatic, so using Facebook to jab back at Mayte is the only way she has to publicly rub Mayte's nose in the fact that ultimately Prince chose her over Mayte. I guess Mani hasn't figured out yet that she's not the only one who knows Prince was half out of his mind and hurting women was something he simply had to do, even though he knew it was wrong, hence the neurosis of our favorite genius. I'm sure he wondered lots of times why he did the things he did but taking pain pills dampens the introspective caring side of us humans, so take them he did. That's what drugs are for when used improperly. Mani, Prince wasn't that hard to figure out and as a husband, he was a bit of a Boobie Prize. So congrats I guess? You won? [Edited 4/13/17 3:31am]

nail on the head. Great post. I agree!

Superfan1984 said:

moonsister said:

I think Mani is just using the pic in a spiteful way to try and hurt Mayte's feelings since Mayte got in some pretty good digs at Mani in her book. Mani can't write a book without showing her hand as a crazed horny little fanatic, so using Facebook to jab back at Mayte is the only way she has to publicly rub Mayte's nose in the fact that ultimately Prince chose her over Mayte. I guess Mani hasn't figured out yet that she's not the only one who knows Prince was half out of his mind and hurting women was something he simply had to do, even though he knew it was wrong, hence the neurosis of our favorite genius. I'm sure he wondered lots of times why he did the things he did but taking pain pills dampens the introspective caring side of us humans, so take them he did. That's what drugs are for when used improperly. Mani, Prince wasn't that hard to figure out and as a husband, he was a bit of a Boobie Prize. So congrats I guess? You won? [Edited 4/13/17 3:31am]

nail on the head. Great post. I agree!

Dead on it!

Purplestar88 said:

moonsister said:

BillieBalloon said:

moonsister said:

Purplestar88 said:

moonsister said:

Purplestar88 said: Not that I think Mayte's book was 100% honest, and all three of these people are way less than able to always do the right thing, so I think they are pretty average human beings, except Prince of course, and his musical genius. But to dismiss his womanizing as cute or acceptable is to refuse to see the real hurt and devastation a womanizer can do to a weak woman. I mean just because she is weak she deserves whatever bad treatment she gets? If Prince was flirting with me I'd find myself very weak and so would the rest of you!

I never saw anyone who thought his womanizing was cute or acceptable but at the end of the day she knew he loved the ladies before he married her, so why should anyone feel sorry for her and think of her as weak. Things were right infont of her face and she went ahead with the relationship. At some point she as to take responsibility for her actions and decisions. As for Mai she entered the relationship the wrong way and in the end it back fired it seems. Prince was a hottie but I feel Mani smelled money and fame. We don't for sure if he was taking pain pills at that time to really put it in any context on how it effected his behavior at the time.

Not to keep repeating what I've said previously, but I was into Prince heavily when he came out in the beginning and fell off so I admit that I am not up to speed. I get the summary that Manuela was a fan, he talked to her in chat rooms, she got a job at his charity, etc. I read some old threads and I don't want this to turn into a hate thread but can someone please help me understand why people dislike her so? Is there actual proof that she had a sexual relationship with Prince while he was still married? Was that actually stated in the book that she confessed to having an affair; was there evidence; or is her apology deemed as the proof? Sorry to be dense, but is it possible they were emotionally involved but he didn't have a sexual relationship? Why do people think she was after his money.... I mean what lead to this conclusion BEFORE the divorce records were unsealed? Maybe it wasn't the money, in the beginning; just the idea of being with "Prince". Do people really believe that Mayte harbored no ulterior motives when she met Prince; that it was all about love? Is there anyone on the org who doesn't dislike/hate Manuela? Someone please help me see the light because the few pictures that I have seen of Prince and Manuela they actually seem like it's a "normal" or "real" relationship; many of the pictures of Prince and Mayte on the net seem "work" related or p.r. driven/poses to me. Do people dislike Manuela because she was a fan and was able to get close to Prince when others only had fantasies of doing this? You can post snarky comments if you like; but I would really be interested in some insightful comments.

moonsister said:

BillieBalloon said:

Prince was such a booby prize Mayte has spent damn near 20 years pining for him. He took drugs that dampened his abilities to care about any woman he had a relationship with? And thats what drugs do when used improperly. Have you even read what youve written...?

Gosh I hope I didn't say that because that is not what I meant. I know who was hurt most in these scenarios, it was Prince, and that is one reason he was using drugs, because he was hurting. [Edited 4/13/17 15:50pm]

Sorry not being mean, but that's how I read it also.

Asenath0607 said:

Purplestar88 said:

I never saw anyone who thought his womanizing was cute or acceptable but at the end of the day she knew he loved the ladies before he married her, so why should anyone feel sorry for her and think of her as weak. Things were right infont of her face and she went ahead with the relationship. At some point she as to take responsibility for her actions and decisions. As for Mai she entered the relationship the wrong way and in the end it back fired it seems. Prince was a hottie but I feel Mani smelled money and fame. We don't for sure if he was taking pain pills at that time to really put it in any context on how it effected his behavior at the time.

Not to keep repeating what I've said previously, but I was into Prince heavily when he came out in the beginning and fell off so I admit that I am not up to speed. I get the summary that Manuela was a fan, he talked to her in chat rooms, she got a job at his charity, etc. I read some old threads and I don't want this to turn into a hate thread but can someone please help me understand why people dislike her so? Is there actual proof that she had a sexual relationship with Prince while he was still married? Was that actually stated in the book that she confessed to having an affair; was there evidence; or is her apology deemed as the proof? Sorry to be dense, but is it possible they were emotionally involved but he didn't have a sexual relationship? Why do people think she was after his money.... I mean what lead to this conclusion BEFORE the divorce records were unsealed? Maybe it wasn't the money, in the beginning; just the idea of being with "Prince". Do people really believe that Mayte harbored no ulterior motives when she met Prince; that it was all about love? Is there anyone on the org who doesn't dislike/hate Manuela? Someone please help me see the light because the few pictures that I have seen of Prince and Manuela they actually seem like it's a "normal" or "real" relationship; many of the pictures of Prince and Mayte on the net seem "work" related or p.r. driven/poses to me. Do people dislike Manuela because she was a fan and was able to get close to Prince when others only had fantasies of doing this? You can post snarky comments if you like; but I would really be interested in some insightful comments.

I don't all the details but it was said Mani was a mistress and Mayte comfirm it in the book. Who's knows what the real thuth is. I can't say why people "hate" her or Mayte. Just because people criticize them dosesn't necessary mean that they hate them. I feel both were about money and fame and tried to act humble to play people. That is my impression.

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moonsister said:

I think Mani is just using the pic in a spiteful way to try and hurt Mayte's feelings since Mayte got in some pretty good digs at Mani in her book. Mani can't write a book without showing her hand as a crazed horny little fanatic, so using Facebook to jab back at Mayte is the only way she has to publicly rub Mayte's nose in the fact that ultimately Prince chose her over Mayte. I guess Mani hasn't figured out yet that she's not the only one who knows Prince was half out of his mind and hurting women was something he simply had to do, even though he knew it was wrong, hence the neurosis of our favorite genius. I'm sure he wondered lots of times why he did the things he did but taking pain pills dampens the introspective caring side of us humans, so take them he did. That's what drugs are for when used improperly. Mani, Prince wasn't that hard to figure out and as a husband, he was a bit of a Boobie Prize. So congrats I guess? You won? [Edited 4/13/17 3:31am]

BINGO! and so well put...

Asenath0607 said:

Purplestar88 said:

I never saw anyone who thought his womanizing was cute or acceptable but at the end of the day she knew he loved the ladies before he married her, so why should anyone feel sorry for her and think of her as weak. Things were right infont of her face and she went ahead with the relationship. At some point she as to take responsibility for her actions and decisions. As for Mai she entered the relationship the wrong way and in the end it back fired it seems. Prince was a hottie but I feel Mani smelled money and fame. We don't for sure if he was taking pain pills at that time to really put it in any context on how it effected his behavior at the time.

Not to keep repeating what I've said previously, but I was into Prince heavily when he came out in the beginning and fell off so I admit that I am not up to speed. I get the summary that Manuela was a fan, he talked to her in chat rooms, she got a job at his charity, etc. I read some old threads and I don't want this to turn into a hate thread but can someone please help me understand why people dislike her so? Is there actual proof that she had a sexual relationship with Prince while he was still married? Was that actually stated in the book that she confessed to having an affair; was there evidence; or is her apology deemed as the proof? Sorry to be dense, but is it possible they were emotionally involved but he didn't have a sexual relationship? Why do people think she was after his money.... I mean what lead to this conclusion BEFORE the divorce records were unsealed? Maybe it wasn't the money, in the beginning; just the idea of being with "Prince". Do people really believe that Mayte harbored no ulterior motives when she met Prince; that it was all about love? Is there anyone on the org who doesn't dislike/hate Manuela? Someone please help me see the light because the few pictures that I have seen of Prince and Manuela they actually seem like it's a "normal" or "real" relationship; many of the pictures of Prince and Mayte on the net seem "work" related or p.r. driven/poses to me. Do people dislike Manuela because she was a fan and was able to get close to Prince when others only had fantasies of doing this? You can post snarky comments if you like; but I would really be interested in some insightful comments.

First of all, I don't think that Mayte told the whole story about what was really going on in her marriage to Prince. I don't get why she was living in Spain instead of travelling around with Prince. Nevertheless, I had no opinion on M1 or M2 or their divorce from P because I did not know what happened. I know P's reputation with women, but no one ever confirmed that he cheated. However, there were rumors that Mayte cheated with some dancer in Spain and that Manuela cheated with Eric Benet. In Mayte's book, she says that Manuela said that she and Prince did not have a sexual relationship while he and Mayte were together as a couple.

What I don't like about Manuela now is that she was running around with Prince while he was married. She was travelling on tour with him when Mayte should have been the one travelling with him. Manuela was spotted going to dinner with Prince in New York while he was married to Mayte. This really crosses the line in my book. In Manuela's defense, I don't know what Prince was telling her. For all we know, he was telling her that his marriage was over or that Mayte does not love him, or whatever. But the fact that Manuela apologized to Mayte tells me that she knew what she did was wrong. Imho, if she really was cheating on Prince with Eric Benet, Manuela is showing disrespect to Prince by having Eric sing at Prince's funeral and by Eric singing Prince's songs in this alleged tribute. Furthermore, Manuela is showing disrespect to Eric by attending all of these other Prince tributes. As a remarried woman with children by her 2nd husband, she should have attended a memorial service, plus the one she organized with Mayte and go on with her life with her new family.

SheLovesMeNot said:

tmo1965 said:

There is no woman on this Earth that could be a Match for him...

I think on some level he knew this .

I think he remained ever Hopeful..

and thats why he was always moving on.

Lovejunky said:

SheLovesMeNot said:

Manuala is not telling the truth. She and Prince were not friends after their divorce, they had no contact. And that picture she's posted on FB of her and Prince as a couple is rude, disrespectful and unclassy of her. Very very distasteful. That woman is married with 2 children. There is something desperately wrong with that woman. Wrong in every way. And Eric, man up dude, your wife is posting pics of her ex...dead or not boy it's just wrong. How rude and disrespectful if it was Eric posting pictures of him and Haley Berry as his profile picture?!

agreed.