Purpleone4Eva said:

Seems he commented on the article:

"Would have been nice if the update that says that he(me) is not the son wasn't buried halfway through the article, i have officially become click bait. Did the test, results were negative, so I'll go back to my life, you all have a wonderful day."

Well alright, that settles it for me. Doesn't seem like any other media outlet takes the SMO too seriously, so hopefully he isn't receiving too many calls.

Awww, we gotta leave the guy alone. He did what his mama wanted and now he's ready to move on.

morningsong said:

Purpleone4Eva said:

Seems he commented on the article:

"Would have been nice if the update that says that he(me) is not the son wasn't buried halfway through the article, i have officially become click bait. Did the test, results were negative, so I'll go back to my life, you all have a wonderful day."

Well alright, that settles it for me. Doesn't seem like any other media outlet takes the SMO too seriously, so hopefully he isn't receiving too many calls.

Awww, we gotta leave the guy alone. He did what his mama wanted and now he's ready to move on.

Yeah... Anthony, you go ahead and reactive facebook, we'll leave you alone. No more snooping, I swear.

Well, I hope this story dies.

SMO seems like complete garbage. I'm now even more sure they made up the 99% match story, since they were ready to be like "look! it's this guy! yep, we were right!" When, wouldn't they at least known something about who the supposed match is? I guess if they did, they'd put that out there, as they certainly seem to have no concern for privacy.

Purpleone4Eva said:

Seems he commented on the article:

"Would have been nice if the update that says that he(me) is not the son wasn't buried halfway through the article, i have officially become click bait. Did the test, results were negative, so I'll go back to my life, you all have a wonderful day."

Well alright, that settles it for me. Doesn't seem like any other media outlet takes the SMO too seriously, so hopefully he isn't receiving too many calls.

That is now settled. Or is it?

BTW the article on LipstickAlley directs back to this very thread. That's right. Lawdy.

morningsong said:

Vee0319 said:

Vee0319 said:

I feel guilty for stalking him now.

.

WHATTT!!!???!!

As if DNA-tests happen by accident.

As if Darwinism creates stupid parents.

Vee0319 said:

morningsong said:

Awww, we gotta leave the guy alone. He did what his mama wanted and now he's ready to move on.

What's even more sad is his mama really isn't sure who his dad is. He probably came to terms with not knowing a long time ago, and then taking the DNA test, having it come back negative must have really been painful. I'm going to pray for him.

Ok, now I'm sad.

Vee0319 said:

morningsong said:

Wait is he the 90% guarenteed match person??

I am not sure because the paper originally wrote the article August 1, they updated yesterday with Anthony Steman's info, then they added the new update today Stating that Anthony called and said he is not Prince's son. I guess if these Prince has a son stories are not picked up by a major media outlet, we should not hold our breath.

That story was full of holes. I called BS from the get go.

Purpleone4Eva said:

Seems he commented on the article:

"Would have been nice if the update that says that he(me) is not the son wasn't buried halfway through the article, i have officially become click bait. Did the test, results were negative, so I'll go back to my life, you all have a wonderful day."

Well alright, that settles it for me. Doesn't seem like any other media outlet takes the SMO too seriously, so hopefully he isn't receiving too many calls.

Oh, that's just sad. And he's right. They should make it more prominent. At least he's shutting it down.

Note to self: don't read the SMO.

Time to let Mr. Stamen go back to his life and the privacy he had before.

Now, we really need to apologize for prying into this young man's life and let him be. Anthony Stamen just posted this in rebuttal to all the misinformation in the media and the net:

.

To all of my friends(a weird story for you) and new stalkers(Prince.org folks and lipstick alley, maybe more eventually), a bit of info concerning this article from the perspective of me: On April 23, 2016 I watched the SNL Memorial episode dedicatd to Prince, I proceeded to cry for the next hour as I watched. Every kid who didn't know a parent has that someone amazing they wish they were, and for the little darker kid(not sure if that's PC I grew up around mostly white people) not a lot of famous people could be my dad, and Prince was the only one I knew who looked remotely like me. I wasn't just sad because a dream was dying, but realizing that if Prince, wealthy as he was, died, my probable broke-ass dad would most likely die before I ever met him.

.

I spent a year in a new city and hadn't made many friends and with this new stress, I was a bit off kilter to say the least. Then my mom got a hold of me mid may(via phone by the way, did not receive notification or know about those messages on the picture until the article), we were estranged, among withholding the information of my dad, I also had some other grudges I was holding. Once she gave me the news that she thought he was my dad I didn't know what to think, but I do know I lost the ability to sleep, and realized if this were true I would need to act fast or I may never know.

.

It was hard to not get caught up, wondering if it could be true, and know if it was I would be devastated and excited. The thought of having a wonderful dad, but never be able to see him, as I had been fearing for weeks now. The joy of having a family of color that was mine that I could get to know, that would understand me in a way others in my life, though wonderful, could not. The nervousness that they might hate me. Honestly through experience of life I just assumed even if I was his son someone would figure out a way to keep me from getting any of the money, and only pursued this because I needed to know. Not wanting to because I knew that a big possibility existed I wasn't and people might find out who I was anyway, but that's just reality.

.

My mom's mental stability as she's getting older is not 100% solid, so the possibility existed she incorrectly remembered, someone tricked her, or she really had just kept this from me as some devotion to Prince as to not ruin his life. The uncertainty in me, and the certainty my mother expressed in private, drove me to make contact and arrange a test. The facts were I was born in Minneapolis, MN on May 31,1987(My mom and Prince had a bigger possibility for meeting since they both lived there during the time period around my probable conception date ), I don't to this day know who my father is, and apparently my mother may have been in proximity to Prince very often as she frequented his club, not too mention the number of people through my life that had said I looked like Prince(I never for sure saw it, until my mom said this I thought everyone was just being nice racist, now I think perhaps the resemblance was more than I believed, I'm not very photogenic I think<or just making excuses so I feel better, haha>, and also I'm only 5'8", I just started lifting a lot the last few years to take the stress off and probably look bigger in the non body shots).

.

Apparently it was enough with my mom filing an affidavit, with her claims and knowledge, to arrange a test, but after doing the test I received the results that said 0% chance, so the search for my father goes on, but I felt relieved I managed to get the test and know, and thought I got away scott-free with sealed court documents, but apparently someone messed up and the next thing I know I get a weird friend request on Facebook, which I accept because I thought it was probably someone from the political groups I frequent on Facebook wanting to talk more. Clicking on his profile to make sure it wasn't a troll, I see his first post, a picture of me saying he just put out an article, crazy info ripped from the internet, talking about me being Prince's son, and I freaked(I have pretty bad social anxiety, and this happened real fast), shut my stuff down and kept looking the internet over for things on me, trying to clear info, and keep track of what was being leaked. I found a blog where they had literally known what states and cities I had been in, when, and what had happened on my Facebook. I guess that's just the world these days.

.

After taking a day to think about it and absorb, and getting over the fact that somehow I got the brunt end of being sorta famous with out the benefits, I decided to contact the paper and see if they would correct themselves, but we see how that worked out, some media guys, just ridiculous. I think some people have caught on and believe my claim that I am not, I just wanted to put out my story to any who would listen since that paper apparently needs news, so whatever. I hope you all will understand I'm a perfectly reasonable person and tried to leave this at the negative test, and in no way wanted to harass or disrespect a hero to so many or his family, I just wanted to know something that I wasn't sure on, because apparently knowing who my dad is meant more to me than I realized.

.

Now I'm just a guy who has to get to work most days at a regular job who ended up in a shitty area for a bi-sexual, partially African American, atheist to get stuck in, all because of this craziness, and now saving up to get back west, and try it a little different. Doing what I can to get by, and probably have to spend the next couple weeks in the gym due to some unkind comments, I just hope I managed to get ahead of this in time to avert any further damage or disinformation, and I imagine most of you will be disinterested after this(or at least hope) And I sincerely hope you all have a good day, and realize I just need to get over people looking at me and remember I'm a perfectly fine person. I will be taking my search for my father elsewhere, and try and dig through the catacombs of my moms deteriorating mind(she gets by, but I think her youth is being remembered incorrectly). If you have a question message me, I'll try to get back to you when I can. Silver lining, my alias of Snow caught on for a little bit, lol.

[Edited 8/10/16 0:39am]

purplethunder3121 said:

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Ok.... next please.

morningsong said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Now, we really need to apologize for prying into this young man's life and let him be. Anthony Stamen just posted this in rebuttal to all the misinformation in the media and the net:

.

To all of my friends(a weird story for you) and new stalkers(Prince.org folks and lipstick alley, maybe more eventually), a bit of info concerning this article from the perspective of me: On April 23, 2016 I watched the SNL Memorial episode dedicatd to Prince, I proceeded to cry for the next hour as I watched. Every kid who didn't know a parent has that someone amazing they wish they were, and for the little darker kid(not sure if that's PC I grew up around mostly white people) not a lot of famous people could be my dad, and Prince was the only one I knew who looked remotely like me. I wasn't just sad because a dream was dying, but realizing that if Prince, wealthy as he was, died, my probable broke-ass dad would most likely die before I ever met him.

.

I spent a year in a new city and hadn't made many friends and with this new stress, I was a bit off kilter to say the least. Then my mom got a hold of me mid may(via phone by the way, did not receive notification or know about those messages on the picture until the article), we were estranged, among withholding the information of my dad, I also had some other grudges I was holding. Once she gave me the news that she thought he was my dad I didn't know what to think, but I do know I lost the ability to sleep, and realized if this were true I would need to act fast or I may never know.

.

It was hard to not get caught up, wondering if it could be true, and know if it was I would be devastated and excited. The thought of having a wonderful dad, but never be able to see him, as I had been fearing for weeks now. The joy of having a family of color that was mine that I could get to know, that would understand me in a way others in my life, though wonderful, could not. The nervousness that they might hate me. Honestly through experience of life I just assumed even if I was his son someone would figure out a way to keep me from getting any of the money, and only pursued this because I needed to know. Not wanting to because I knew that a big possibility existed I wasn't and people might find out who I was anyway, but that's just reality.

.

My mom's mental stability as she's getting older is not 100% solid, so the possibility existed she incorrectly remembered, someone tricked her, or she really had just kept this from me as some devotion to Prince as to not ruin his life. The uncertainty in me, and the certainty my mother expressed in private, drove me to make contact and arrange a test. The facts were I was born in Minneapolis, MN on May 31,1987(My mom and Prince had a bigger possibility for meeting since they both lived there during the time period around my probable conception date ), I don't to this day know who my father is, and apparently my mother may have been in proximity to Prince very often as she frequented his club, not too mention the number of people through my life that had said I looked like Prince(I never for sure saw it, until my mom said this I thought everyone was just being nice racist, now I think perhaps the resemblance was more than I believed, I'm not very photogenic I think<or just making excuses so I feel better, haha>, and also I'm only 5'8", I just started lifting a lot the last few years to take the stress off and probably look bigger in the non body shots).

.

Apparently it was enough with my mom filing an affidavit, with her claims and knowledge, to arrange a test, but after doing the test I received the results that said 0% chance, so the search for my father goes on, but I felt relieved I managed to get the test and know, and thought I got away scott-free with sealed court documents, but apparently someone messed up and the next thing I know I get a weird friend request on Facebook, which I accept because I thought it was probably someone from the political groups I frequent on Facebook wanting to talk more. Clicking on his profile to make sure it wasn't a troll, I see his first post, a picture of me saying he just put out an article, crazy info ripped from the internet, talking about me being Prince's son, and I freaked(I have pretty bad social anxiety, and this happened real fast), shut my stuff down and kept looking the internet over for things on me, trying to clear info, and keep track of what was being leaked. I found a blog where they had literally known what states and cities I had been in, when, and what had happened on my Facebook. I guess that's just the world these days.

.

After taking a day to think about it and absorb, and getting over the fact that somehow I got the brunt end of being sorta famous with out the benefits, I decided to contact the paper and see if they would correct themselves, but we see how that worked out, some media guys, just ridiculous. I think some people have caught on and believe my claim that I am not, I just wanted to put out my story to any who would listen since that paper apparently needs news, so whatever. I hope you all will understand I'm a perfectly reasonable person and tried to leave this at the negative test, and in no way wanted to harass or disrespect a hero to so many or his family, I just wanted to know something that I wasn't sure on, because apparently knowing who my dad is meant more to me than I realized.

.

Now I'm just a guy who has to get to work most days at a regular job who ended up in a shitty area for a bi-sexual, partially African American, atheist to get stuck in, all because of this craziness, and now saving up to get back west, and try it a little different. Doing what I can to get by, and probably have to spend the next couple weeks in the gym due to some unkind comments, I just hope I managed to get ahead of this in time to avert any further damage or disinformation, and I imagine most of you will be disinterested after this(or at least hope) And I sincerely hope you all have a good day, and realize I just need to get over people looking at me and remember I'm a perfectly fine person. I will be taking my search for my father elsewhere, and try and dig through the catacombs of my moms deteriorating mind(she gets by, but I think her youth is being remembered incorrectly). If you have a question message me, I'll try to get back to you when I can. Silver lining, my alias of Snow caught on for a little bit, lol.

[Edited 8/10/16 0:39am]

Heck I feel bad. But at the same time wanna tell him he found a home here, This is awesome he wrote this I think BIG to him.

udo said:

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Ok.... next please.

Well next is the most recent court docs who is Xavier A Powell and what claim of his is being dismissed.

Mkilpatrick74 said:

morningsong said:

Heck I feel bad. But at the same time wanna tell him he found a home here, This is awesome he wrote this I think BIG to him.

I wish we could let him know it's ok and it's not his fault and that we are here for him. His damn mom needs to be ashamed of herself

Daily Beast story about Prince's charity more properties and estate inventory. http://www.thedailybeast....-back.html

From the story, "L4OA paid $495,000 for the church, an historic landmark, in April 2008, according to city records.That offer was double what church officials had hoped to receive, a church trustee recalled. It allowed the congregation to move into more spacious accommodations and leave the church’s extensive repair needs behind, he said.

morningsong said:

Heck I feel bad. But at the same time wanna tell him he found a home here, This is awesome he wrote this I think BIG to him.

I feel bad for him too. Was this message on his Facebook account?

deerpath said:

Daily Beast story about Prince's charity more properties and estate inventory. http://www.thedailybeast....-back.html

From the story, "L4OA paid $495,000 for the church, an historic landmark, in April 2008, according to city records.That offer was double what church officials had hoped to receive, a church trustee recalled. It allowed the congregation to move into more spacious accommodations and leave the church’s extensive repair needs behind, he said.

"The generous purchase was but one of a multitude of good deeds performed by Prince’s charity."

Heart as big as Minnesota prairies.

Just read this article. interesting read. The lawyer seems real shady. This is another twist in the estate.

deerpath said:

Daily Beast story about Prince's charity more properties and estate inventory. http://www.thedailybeast....-back.html

From the story, "L4OA paid $495,000 for the church, an historic landmark, in April 2008, according to city records.That offer was double what church officials had hoped to receive, a church trustee recalled. It allowed the congregation to move into more spacious accommodations and leave the church’s extensive repair needs behind, he said.

"The generous purchase was but one of a multitude of good deeds performed by Prince’s charity."

Heart as big as Minnesota prairies.

Thanks for posting. Cousins sounds like he belongs in prison....

The more I learn, the more respect and admiration I have for Prince if it's even possible to admire him more than I already did.

Not only was this man the most phenomenal artist alive and an extraordinary man but he actually built and oversaw a whole empire and there's no telling how many con-men and women he had to fight off on a regular basis, not to mention the lunatics that kept showing up.

People better put some respeck on his name....real talk.

Mkilpatrick74 said:

morningsong said:

Heck I feel bad. But at the same time wanna tell him he found a home here, This is awesome he wrote this I think BIG to him.

I wish we could let him know it's ok and it's not his fault and that we are here for him. His damn mom needs to be ashamed of herself

babynoz said:

Vee0319 said:

rogifan said:

Vee0319 said:

The Santa Monica Observer, added an update to the article they released yesterday. The update states that Anthony Steman phoned them around noon today to state that he is not Prince's son. He better go ahead and see if Morris Day is his pops. [Edited 8/9/16 17:14pm]

Some in the media are going to be so disappointed as it seems more and more likely that Prince doesn't have any children out there that he didn't know about (or knew about but didn't tell anyone). They're trying real hard to find stuff but coming up empty. All I can do is

Digging for dirt and coming up with hidden stories of a generous heart instead.

purplethunder3121 said:

Now, we really need to apologize for prying into this young man's life and let him be. Anthony Stamen just posted this in rebuttal to all the misinformation in the media and the net:

.

To all of my friends(a weird story for you) and new stalkers(Prince.org folks and lipstick alley, maybe more eventually), a bit of info concerning this article from the perspective of me: On April 23, 2016 I watched the SNL Memorial episode dedicatd to Prince, I proceeded to cry for the next hour as I watched. Every kid who didn't know a parent has that someone amazing they wish they were, and for the little darker kid(not sure if that's PC I grew up around mostly white people) not a lot of famous people could be my dad, and Prince was the only one I knew who looked remotely like me. I wasn't just sad because a dream was dying, but realizing that if Prince, wealthy as he was, died, my probable broke-ass dad would most likely die before I ever met him.

.

I spent a year in a new city and hadn't made many friends and with this new stress, I was a bit off kilter to say the least. Then my mom got a hold of me mid may(via phone by the way, did not receive notification or know about those messages on the picture until the article), we were estranged, among withholding the information of my dad, I also had some other grudges I was holding. Once she gave me the news that she thought he was my dad I didn't know what to think, but I do know I lost the ability to sleep, and realized if this were true I would need to act fast or I may never know.

.

It was hard to not get caught up, wondering if it could be true, and know if it was I would be devastated and excited. The thought of having a wonderful dad, but never be able to see him, as I had been fearing for weeks now. The joy of having a family of color that was mine that I could get to know, that would understand me in a way others in my life, though wonderful, could not. The nervousness that they might hate me. Honestly through experience of life I just assumed even if I was his son someone would figure out a way to keep me from getting any of the money, and only pursued this because I needed to know. Not wanting to because I knew that a big possibility existed I wasn't and people might find out who I was anyway, but that's just reality.

.

My mom's mental stability as she's getting older is not 100% solid, so the possibility existed she incorrectly remembered, someone tricked her, or she really had just kept this from me as some devotion to Prince as to not ruin his life. The uncertainty in me, and the certainty my mother expressed in private, drove me to make contact and arrange a test. The facts were I was born in Minneapolis, MN on May 31,1987(My mom and Prince had a bigger possibility for meeting since they both lived there during the time period around my probable conception date ), I don't to this day know who my father is, and apparently my mother may have been in proximity to Prince very often as she frequented his club, not too mention the number of people through my life that had said I looked like Prince(I never for sure saw it, until my mom said this I thought everyone was just being nice racist, now I think perhaps the resemblance was more than I believed, I'm not very photogenic I think<or just making excuses so I feel better, haha>, and also I'm only 5'8", I just started lifting a lot the last few years to take the stress off and probably look bigger in the non body shots).

.

Apparently it was enough with my mom filing an affidavit, with her claims and knowledge, to arrange a test, but after doing the test I received the results that said 0% chance, so the search for my father goes on, but I felt relieved I managed to get the test and know, and thought I got away scott-free with sealed court documents, but apparently someone messed up and the next thing I know I get a weird friend request on Facebook, which I accept because I thought it was probably someone from the political groups I frequent on Facebook wanting to talk more. Clicking on his profile to make sure it wasn't a troll, I see his first post, a picture of me saying he just put out an article, crazy info ripped from the internet, talking about me being Prince's son, and I freaked(I have pretty bad social anxiety, and this happened real fast), shut my stuff down and kept looking the internet over for things on me, trying to clear info, and keep track of what was being leaked. I found a blog where they had literally known what states and cities I had been in, when, and what had happened on my Facebook. I guess that's just the world these days.

.

After taking a day to think about it and absorb, and getting over the fact that somehow I got the brunt end of being sorta famous with out the benefits, I decided to contact the paper and see if they would correct themselves, but we see how that worked out, some media guys, just ridiculous. I think some people have caught on and believe my claim that I am not, I just wanted to put out my story to any who would listen since that paper apparently needs news, so whatever. I hope you all will understand I'm a perfectly reasonable person and tried to leave this at the negative test, and in no way wanted to harass or disrespect a hero to so many or his family, I just wanted to know something that I wasn't sure on, because apparently knowing who my dad is meant more to me than I realized.

.

Now I'm just a guy who has to get to work most days at a regular job who ended up in a shitty area for a bi-sexual, partially African American, atheist to get stuck in, all because of this craziness, and now saving up to get back west, and try it a little different. Doing what I can to get by, and probably have to spend the next couple weeks in the gym due to some unkind comments, I just hope I managed to get ahead of this in time to avert any further damage or disinformation, and I imagine most of you will be disinterested after this(or at least hope) And I sincerely hope you all have a good day, and realize I just need to get over people looking at me and remember I'm a perfectly fine person. I will be taking my search for my father elsewhere, and try and dig through the catacombs of my moms deteriorating mind(she gets by, but I think her youth is being remembered incorrectly). If you have a question message me, I'll try to get back to you when I can. Silver lining, my alias of Snow caught on for a little bit, lol.

[Edited 8/10/16 0:39am]

Ugh I feel terrible. If you're poking around here, Anthony, I'm so sorry.

Purpleone4Eva said:

Ugh I feel terrible. If you're poking around here, Anthony, I'm so sorry.

.

This means his mother never explained his father to him.

Until now. How believable is that? His mother scammed him into this.

Unless you expect some sane reasoning from Anthony's side.

He even mentions his sexual orientation!

How sad must one be to do so?

.

Boohoo!!

I am so straight and so pity because blah whatever.

That is silly and that is embarassing.

udo said: