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Wedding brings Prince to Calabogie
Rock star attends sister-in law's marriage

David Guy
The Ottawa Citizen


January 12, 2004

The visit by the famously media-shy Prince to the Ottawa Valley was a complete surprise to the staff of Calabogie Peaks resort, where Prince's sister-in-law was celebrating her wedding.
CREDIT: Kevin Mazur, The Associated Press

Residents of the Ottawa Valley hamlet of Calabogie couldn't believe their eyes Saturday when oddball rock star Prince swept into town in a limousine for his sister-in-law's wedding.

Daniela Testolini married Michael Dykeman at Dickson Manor at the Calabogie Peaks resort, resort spokeswoman Manon Greer said yesterday.

Prince married the bride's sister, Manuela Testolini of Toronto, a former employee of his recording studio, in Hawaii on New Year's Eve, 2001.

The visit by Prince -- famously media-shy -- was a complete surprise to everyone, Ms. Greer said.

"It was all very hush-hush, down to a point about 10 minutes beforehand. I thought it was a scam actually," she said.

"You get this call saying we've got the artist formerly known as Prince on his way, and I'm going 'Yeah, OK, sure,'" Ms. Greer said.

For seven years, Prince, 45, whose real name is Prince Rogers Nelson, called himself the artist formerly known as Prince because of a fight with his record company. He reverted to the stage name Prince in 2000.

The wedding was attended by about 85 guests, Ms. Greer said. "It was very, very simple; they didn't have a big hoopla."

She said staff were told not to speak to the rock star or take any pictures. "We basically said 'this is the bride's day. ... We don't want to have anything like that going on.'"

Ms. Greer said Prince and Ms. Testolini, 27, wouldn't have made such a point of keeping their arrival secret if they had wanted any publicity.

While Prince and his wife only stayed for the ceremony, many in the wedding party stayed overnight, leaving in a bus yesterday afternoon, said an employee who asked to remain unidentified.

Prince is media-shy. In two decades of stardom, he is known to have given only one print interview and one TV interview, according to The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll.

In September 2002, the London Mirror reported that he was outraged when a fan snapped his picture in a restaurant. "That could have been a guy with a gun," he allegedly screamed at his security team. "What do I employ you for?"

In 2002, Prince and his wife bought a mansion -- for $10 million, according to one unconfirmed report -- in Toronto's Bridle Path neighbourhood. Online reports indicate the couple lives there full-time, and that Prince had his former house in his home town, Minneapolis, demolished.

© The Ottawa Citizen 2004








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Interesting. Thanks for posting this.

So Mani has a sister named Dani. lol

Mani and Dani. Dani and Mani. DaniManiManiDani.

Maybe they have another sister named Ani. Or Fani.

A lot of fact checking in that article.

ThePez said:

ThePez said:

I guess they missed the pimping of Emancipation and most
of the Rave shopping.

PrimordialOoze said:

U said 'Fani' huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh...

bananacologne said:

Let's hope Manuela got to attend the reception anyway - it was her sister after all. LOL

bananacologne said:

sbacon1999 said:

I think it's nice that Prince allowed Manity to attend the ceremony at all and even went with her.

He had his Minnesota home demolished???
It's funny that everytime there's an article about Prince
they always put some negative BS in the story that's totally unrelated to the article. They could have left it at him attending the wedding but nooo..

PrimordialOoze said:

"Manity"

*ugh*

anemone said:

Double-

anemone said:

Oh yeah I caught that too. Very clever!

PrimordialOoze said:

I think it's normal and the least he could do.

revolution75 said:

I don't believe you find that funny.
And the tiny tidbid about the house is in fact related to the article since he left Minneapolis to live with Manuela -the bride's sister- in Canada, the country where the wedding took place. Further it is said that online reports indicate he had the house demolished, not that he actually had.

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[This message was edited Tue Jan 13 0:42:13 PST 2004 by Abrazo]