annalizer said:

LOL. In all honesty we all would've back in the day! I feel for Mayte. I don't know if I could've stood up to him, buuuuuuut, when he had my baby cremated after taking him off life support and later burned his ashes along with my stuff, I would've kicked his lil ninja a**!

The baby's ashes were in the stuff he burned of Mayte's in LG's back yard?

Asenath0607 said:

kingricefan said:

Again- this book had a release date last year. I'm quite sure the publishers changed it to coincide with the anniversary of Prince's passing. It happens ALL THE TIME. Mayte would have had no say so in that matter.

Again- why wait till now to write it? Confidentiality agreement. Do you think that besides a pre-nup that she didn't also have to sign the lovely, bright and shiny confidentiality agreement that anyone close to Prince had to sign?

If you're angry at Mayte for this book THEN DON'T BUY IT! SIMPLE!

I haven't read the entire thread; but are people really "angry"? From what I have read, it seems that people are just having discussions and voicing their opinions.

I'm picking up lots of anger in this thread. Nasty name calling and throwing shade.

annalizer said:

PennyPurple said:

annalizer said:

PennyPurple said:

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

PennyPurple said:

annalizer said:

LOL. In all honesty we all would've back in the day! I feel for Mayte. I don't know if I could've stood up to him, buuuuuuut, when he had my baby cremated after taking him off life support and later burned his ashes along with my stuff, I would've kicked his lil ninja a**!

The baby's ashes were in the stuff he burned of Mayte's in LG's back yard?

She thinks the baby's ashes was in the stuff he burned she was not there so she does not know.

The only thing she knows is she does not have the Urn. There is a rumor that the Urn was in his personal living quarters but the truth is no one really knows.

This is the whole issue with her speculating on things and then having the media take the tidbits and run with it. Some media outlets are calling him a rapist. All of this feeds into the worst racist sterotypes ever. On the real tip dudes don't give women there walking papers and burn there shit for no reason. She did something to tick him off and while I am sure she did not deserve to have all of her stuff burned remember he may have felt it was his stuff to burn and in the end the person with the money has the upper hand.

Nevermind the book, I am still feeling awfully sorry for Mayte (and Prince of course) for having endured such a horible and sad tragedy.

She clearly is a survivor and really deserves some applause just for that.

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

she wrote that book out of revenge not love if she said he burned the ashes of the baby. COME ON. Yikes.

cindyt said:

she wrote that book out of revenge not love if she said he burned the ashes of the baby. COME ON. Yikes.

and why didn't she know where her baby's ashes were??

cindyt said:

As a writer myself who once want have a dream of making a comfortable rich as a writer and drinking tequilas off my success, I can't see of Mayte is going to make huge money of this book, probably just barely going to be enough to pay her mortgage and don't she lives in LA, one of the expensive cities in the world. She have to split profits with the publisher, her agent, maybe lawyer, etc. Royalities are all time low. Book industry is going some changes due to technology. So I think this outrageous is ridiculous.

cindyt said:

laurarichardson said:

PennyPurple said:

The baby's ashes were in the stuff he burned of Mayte's in LG's back yard?

She thinks the baby's ashes was in the stuff he burned she was not there so she does not know.

The only thing she knows is she does not have the Urn. There is a rumor that the Urn was in his personal living quarters but the truth is no one really knows.

This is the whole issue with her speculating on things and then having the media take the tidbits and run with it. Some media outlets are calling him a rapist. All of this feeds into the worst racist sterotypes ever. On the real tip dudes don't give women there walking papers and burn there shit for no reason. She did something to tick him off and while I am sure she did not deserve to have all of her stuff burned remember he may have felt it was his stuff to burn and in the end the person with the money has the upper hand.

Wonder if LG knows or not if this true? He was there with Prince, when Prince burnt everything wasn't he?

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

PennyPurple said:

PennyPurple said:

You can't burn ashes. They were already burnt. He could burn the urn I guess. By the way, why didn't she have the ashes. I am sure a judge would have granted them to the mother. PLus, apparently, Prince had them for quite some time if that were the case.

Maybe, I am insensitive but I doubt Prince put much stock in ashes. He was too much into spiritual mumbo jumbo. I bet he burnt the house and everything in it like Manuela stated (not specifically the ashes). And I bet Manuela told Mayte.

cindyt said:

cindyt said:

she wrote that book out of revenge not love if she said he burned the ashes of the baby. COME ON. Yikes.

and why didn't she know where her baby's ashes were??

bondno9 said:

AA1slot said:

It seems the negativity stems from an presumption she is making money off him and he's only been gone less than a year, he's dead and can't speak of it, the timing, the cover of the book, the contents, the title, you name it there are those that will find any reason not to like it because of the author. None of them were in the marriage or the pregnancy except Prince and Mayte. She is the one left to tell of their relationship. Yes, I agree, I do not think it is a tell all by any means. I think they both suffered pain when it ended and have grieved in their own ways over the years.

This woman should have written this book when Prince was alive. Period. She had plenty of opportunity to "share" her "heartbreaking" story, but waited until after his death. Oh, please. Why now?!? and why release it doing the anniversary month of his death? Why not on her birthday since it's about her?!? So, her motives are questionable.

[Edited 3/17/17 15:07pm]

She wrote it now because she was keen enough to usurp the tragic circumstances of a dead man's life by cleverly inserting her own life story( in the form of a book) right around the anniversary of his death. Cashing in on the death of the powerful and famous has been standard practice for ages. What makes this book suspicious is that by all acounts, she claims she is doing this because she wanted to share their "love story". I dont know what about any part of his drug use is coming from a "loving place". I dont know how a "love story" can include a person talking about him burning up the damn baby clothes and everything that reminded him of your marriage and divorce. Its great for generating conversation , drama and sales, but that has nothing to do with a love story. It is her wreckless pattern of doing things in the past that he was clearly against that would make one question how much of a "love story" she truly intended on writing. This same pattern is repeated in the book.

Granted , it's her "story", but how are we to assess this when we know her history? We know that she nor the publisher would admit that the salacious parts of this book is what would sell itself. No one even cares about the baby that died as she is making it out to be. We've heard that a thousand times. People want the goods on Prince, primarily the drugs, the sex, the death. Not one publisher would touch her without his death and she knows that. It's the only way this book would generate revenue, and secondly , its the only way Mayte can exploit a new found avenue of expressing herself so she took a chance. The publisher also took a chance and hope to at least turn a small profit on the news of Prince's death.

I should say that she is no different than the numerous associates , acquaintences, employees, etc. who have refreshed and rejuvenated their careers and popularity because he is dead. Some of these minions were unheard of. Who was paying attention to Mayte whilst Prince was alive? She went off into the obscurity pasture long ago. The fact remains that there were already countless times when she had already expressed how traumatic the death of her child was on that sub-par show (Hollywood Ex's) and she has used countless other platforms to express what that meant to her. It's not as if she had some confidentiality clause per her divorce to not talk about that or the marriage ever.

Sharing the death of her child to garner ratings/revnue has been tried before but it had no monetrary value because (a) nobody saw Mayte as anything other than what she was, (b) Prince was still alive and kicking. She's an opportunist and was properly advised on the perfect time to capitalize on something . I bet you she would not have written that for free, or for the "love" of Prince if he lived today.

ladygirl99 said:

As a writer myself who once want have a dream of making a comfortable rich as a writer and drinking tequilas off my success, I can't see of Mayte is going to make huge money of this book, probably just barely going to be enough to pay her mortgage and don't she lives in LA, one of the expensive cities in the world. She have to split profits with the publisher, her agent, maybe lawyer, etc. Royalities are all time low. Book industry is going some changes due to technology. So I think this outrageous is ridiculous.

ya, try telling that to someone who gets dollar signs in their eyes, it doesn't work. Money for nothing? you mean they don't have to do real labor? Hell, it'll happen every time. I've heard writers don't make much but I wouldn't know, I heard Ayn Rand had to be heavily cajoled into taking medicaid after talking all that shit about "moochers" and people sucking off the system her whole life.Doctors had to explain to her that writers don't have the money to pay for healthcare. God has a strange sense of humor/irony.

purplerabbithole said:

You can't burn ashes. They were already burnt. He could burn the urn I guess. By the way, why didn't she have the ashes. I am sure a judge would have granted them to the mother. PLus, apparently, Prince had them for quite some time if that were the case.

Maybe, I am insensitive but I doubt Prince put much stock in ashes. He was too much into spiritual mumbo jumbo. I bet he burnt the house and everything in it like Manuela stated (not specifically the ashes). And I bet Manuela told Mayte.

cindyt said:

and why didn't she know where her baby's ashes were??

Whether or not Prince put much stock in ashes, if he really did this..... this is really, really bad. You just don't do something like this. I don't care who you are.

wonder505 said:

PeteSilas said:

ladygirl99 said:

As a writer myself who once want have a dream of making a comfortable rich as a writer and drinking tequilas off my success, I can't see of Mayte is going to make huge money of this book, probably just barely going to be enough to pay her mortgage and don't she lives in LA, one of the expensive cities in the world. She have to split profits with the publisher, her agent, maybe lawyer, etc. Royalities are all time low. Book industry is going some changes due to technology. So I think this outrageous is ridiculous.

ya, try telling that to someone who gets dollar signs in their eyes, it doesn't work. Money for nothing? you mean they don't have to do real labor? Hell, it'll happen every time. I've heard writers don't make much but I wouldn't know, I heard Ayn Rand had to be heavily cajoled into taking medicaid after talking all that shit about "moochers" and people sucking off the system her whole life.Doctors had to explain to her that writers don't have the money to pay for healthcare. God has a strange sense of humor/irony.

She didn't seem to learn anything from it.

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

PennyPurple said:

Wonder if LG knows or not if this true? He was there with Prince, when Prince burnt everything wasn't he?

Wouldn't you think the mother would know where her child's ashes were over larry

If Prince burnt those ashes with Mayte's things, that happened in Larry's backyard. He would be the one to know, that is still able to talk (since Prince is gone). If those ashes/urn was in his possesion then like Billie states, Tyka or Larry need to speak up, and do it fast.

He burnt up the baby's clothes too?

kingricefan said:

Asenath0607 said:

I haven't read the entire thread; but are people really "angry"? From what I have read, it seems that people are just having discussions and voicing their opinions.

I'm picking up lots of anger in this thread. Nasty name calling and throwing shade.

really sherlock? what makes you think that?

Asenath0607 said:

ladygirl99 said:

Some people are just mad because while they dream of being his wife and carrying his child, she actually was the real thing. That is what I am suspecting. They wanted some closeness to Prince and is resentful toward her because at least she can testify the closeness she had with him. I understand we all still dealing with his loss his way, but taking out at her isn't going to make them heal. I fully believed she is the scapegoat because of their angruish they never saw him live or have some personal connected with his idol. She can say that. She was closed to him for 10 years as a dancer and sang backup on a few of his songs like the Pope, wife, appeared in his videos out of admiration, and mother to his child and their miscarriage one too. That can pissed off a hardcore stan with puppy love fantasies because that stan wasn't HER.

By the way I am not a Mayte stan. But it is hard to find her so unlikable or the actual reason for a strong dislike. She apparently still have some hard love toward him even after all the things he did to her like cheating and tell how to express over her lost. If I was in her shoes, I wouldn't love him so hard like that. But Prince still doing magically things even as I believed his energy transformed to another source in this universe.

Even when I read this book, I am sure she is going to keep alot of personal things she witnessed to herself.

Well, I'm going to be bold enough to admit what you said applies to me

When Prince arrived on the scene, Prince and WB knew EXACTLY how to get a teen girl to fall head over heels in love/lust with him and had it not been for New Jack Swing and that crazy ATWIAD album, I would have purchased mass amounts of Ambi, along with an endless supply of virgin Brazilian hair and made my way to MPLS. LOL

LMAO

I had my few fantasies on my own. But I thought Prince was more of a wacky uncle figure to me. But back to topic, yeah there are some misdirect anger going on toward Mayte.