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From: "Holly G." (orinoko@mindspring.com)
Newsgroups: alt.music.prince
Subject: Prince in the NY Post
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:53:31 -0700

Yet more evidence that Prince desperately needs a keeper:

NY POST...PAGE SIX...

THE Artist Still Known as Prince is now the Jerk Known as a Cheapskate
at one downtown club. The rocker who these days calls himself "The
Artist" arrived at Houston Street hotspot Madame X at 2 a.m. on Sunday
and stiffed the house with the bill. It all started when a bodyguard for
the rocker asked the club's co-owner Brad Hamilton - who happens also to
be The Post's deputy arts editor - for a private seating. After Hamilton
cleared an area in the upstairs lounge, the fuschia-loving funkster
entered with a woman who was not his wife, Mayte, and a middle-aged
gentleman. The trio ordered two rounds of drinks. Prince's male pal
asked Hamilton to block off the men's room while the great man himself
went inside and talked on a cellphone for 10 minutes. Later, a young
girl asked him for an autograph, but he waved her away and explained
that, since changing his name, he no longer gives signatures. That
policy evidently extends to credit card slips. At around 3:30 a.m.,
Prince and Co. heading for the door. Their waitress checked their table
and found the bill unpaid and no tip. "He stiffed us for a measly $25,"
Hamilton fumes.
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