Rumors,feuds,and scandals from Old Black Hollywood
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Bill Cosby made Whitney Houston cry when she auditioned for the role on Sandra on The Cosby Show. She told him that she was an aspiring singer. He asked her, "Who told you you could sing?" She sung for him but it crushed her spirit
Anna Gordy,Marvin Gaye,and Janis Hunter
One day, he picked her up from school and said he needed to make a stop. He was taking her to pick up his son — at Gordy’s house.
He went inside to get the boy, and Hunter, frightened, waited in the car. Anna Gordy came outside to see the pretty young girl her husband was ditching her for.
“Anna was scary,” Hunter writes. “Her eyes burned with anger. Her eyes focused on me.
Gordy “ordered” Hunter to roll down her window. She opened it just an inch.
“I just want to see what someone like you looks like,” Gordy told her, before turning to address Gaye. “Now that I’ve seen it,” she told him, “don’t ever bring it back here again.”
Bill Cosby made Whitney Houston cry when she auditioned for the role on Sandra on The Cosby Show. She told him that she was an aspiring singer. He asked her, "Who told you you could sing?" She sung for him but it crushed her spirit
Anna Gordy,Marvin Gaye,and Janis Hunter
One day, he picked her up from school and said he needed to make a stop. He was taking her to pick up his son — at Gordy’s house.
He went inside to get the boy, and Hunter, frightened, waited in the car. Anna Gordy came outside to see the pretty young girl her husband was ditching her for.
“Anna was scary,” Hunter writes. “Her eyes burned with anger. Her eyes focused on me.
Gordy “ordered” Hunter to roll down her window. She opened it just an inch.
“I just want to see what someone like you looks like,” Gordy told her, before turning to address Gaye. “Now that I’ve seen it,” she told him, “don’t ever bring it back here again.”
This is not a feud, but I love these stories about Ray Charles:
Ray Charles Jr. says being blind never stopped his singing father from doing anything - even driving a car.
''I'll never forget, my father had a '63 Corvette, gorgeous car,'' the younger Charles said in a PBS television program broadcast starting this week.
''He was at an intersection and he told the valet, 'I want to drive my car home.' And the guy said, 'Mr. Charles, you know, this is an intersection.'''
The valet gave way when Charles reminded him who owned the car.
''So my father gets in the driver's seat, and we're all in the house, right, and we hear this bam. Come out, car is totaled. . . . My father jumps the clutch, pulls out in the intersection and just totals out the Corvette.''
Ray Charles Driving? He Got The Wrong One, Baby
Ray Charles doesn't suggest other blind people try it, but he has driven a car, a motorcycle and, in a jam, could land an airplane.
"I done all kinds of nutty things," Charles told U.S. News and World Reports in an interview for editions that go on sale Monday. "I don't recommend it because I don't want other blind people to say if Ray Charles did it, I can do it, because I don't want to cause anybody to get themselves killed."The singer said he also once rode a motorcycle - "I know if I could see, I'd have me a Harley for sure" - on the old Mike Douglas television show in Philadelphia. The show blocked off a street for him.
"I know how to fly an airplane, too. I always had an attitude that anything that can kill me I want to know about," the 66-year-old Charles said.
Ray Charles drive a car? Sure! Maybe land a plane
Ray Charles Jr. says being blind never stopped his singing father from doing anything - even driving a car.
''I'll never forget, my father had a '63 Corvette, gorgeous car,'' the younger Charles said in a PBS television program broadcast starting this week.
''He was at an intersection and he told the valet, 'I want to drive my car home.' And the guy said, 'Mr. Charles, you know, this is an intersection.'''
The valet gave way when Charles reminded him who owned the car.
''So my father gets in the driver's seat, and we're all in the house, right, and we hear this bam. Come out, car is totaled. . . . My father jumps the clutch, pulls out in the intersection and just totals out the Corvette.''
Ray Charles Driving? He Got The Wrong One, Baby
Ray Charles doesn't suggest other blind people try it, but he has driven a car, a motorcycle and, in a jam, could land an airplane.
"I done all kinds of nutty things," Charles told U.S. News and World Reports in an interview for editions that go on sale Monday. "I don't recommend it because I don't want other blind people to say if Ray Charles did it, I can do it, because I don't want to cause anybody to get themselves killed."The singer said he also once rode a motorcycle - "I know if I could see, I'd have me a Harley for sure" - on the old Mike Douglas television show in Philadelphia. The show blocked off a street for him.
"I know how to fly an airplane, too. I always had an attitude that anything that can kill me I want to know about," the 66-year-old Charles said.
Ray Charles drive a car? Sure! Maybe land a plane
Wat about that time mike tyson was going to see his ex robin and found brad pitt there
Brad was shook
I think I read also where Mike knocked Wesley Snipes smooth the fukk out in a bathroom
Not Nino brehs
HabitualLineSteppa
....Fuh Q.
FukyourFort
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Mike Tyson speaking on Rick James in his book.
"He was wearing a loud shirt with a tie, but the tie wasn’t tied and the shirt was unbuttoned. He came over to us, slapped me five, and then he looked at Alfonso. “Aren’t you an actor?” he said and then, boom, he hit him. “Gimme that fukking beer,” he said and grabbed Alfonso’s beer. “Rick, this is a kid, you can’t hit this guy like that,” I protested. He just took that bottle and swigged from it. He didn’t care if the kid had herpes. I’m sure Rick did. “What’s up, nikka?” he said to me."
Ol’Otis
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Nona hendrix is bisexual
Aretha franklin and mavis staples both slept with Sam Cooke
Angela Winbush and Ron Isley had an affair while he was still married to his first wife
Diana Ross was supposedly the "superhead" of her day
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
"FLO BALLARD WAS RAPED AT KNIFE POINT BY FORMER NBA PLAYER"
Reginald Harding, (May 4, 1942–September 2, 1972) was a professional basketball player.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Harding, a 7'0" center, was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the fourth round of the 1962 NBA Draft. He became the first player drafted into the NBA without having played in college.
Before being drafted, Harding was a stand out ahtlete and considered the best looking boy on campus, but he had problems. If girls danced with him at school dances held on the weekends, that following Monday (at school) he would seek them out and stalk each one of them.
For a few seasons he was the team’s starting center, and on a good night Reggie would score maybe 12 points and grab a dozen or so rebounds. But he was grossly overmatched when the opposing center was someone like Bill Russell or Wilt Chamberlain.
Harding's basketball career was cut short at age 26 by a number of personal problems. As a player, he spent time in jail and was rumored to carry a pistol in his gym bag, and caused problems with his teammates with antics such as threatening them and the Pacers' general manager Mike Storen with his gun (the latter occurring on television). Harding also often struggled with drug addictions.
Harding returned to the streets of his youth and fell in with the wrong crowd. The story is legendary of him putting on a ski mask and robbing his neighborhood liquor store at gunpoint.
“What are you doing, Reggie?,” the proprietor asked of the seven-foot-tall robber.
“It ain’t me, man,” Reggie replied.
According to Peter Benjaminson's "The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard," Harding raped Florence Ballard, a member of The Supremes, at knifepoint in 1960.
In September, 1972, at 30 years of age, Harding was on the streets, chatting up some friends. A car drove by, shouted his name, and some words were exchanged. Someone in the car opened fire with a gun. Harding was dead, a bullet through his skull and brain.
Reginald Harding, (May 4, 1942–September 2, 1972) was a professional basketball player.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Harding, a 7'0" center, was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the fourth round of the 1962 NBA Draft. He became the first player drafted into the NBA without having played in college.
Before being drafted, Harding was a stand out ahtlete and considered the best looking boy on campus, but he had problems. If girls danced with him at school dances held on the weekends, that following Monday (at school) he would seek them out and stalk each one of them.
For a few seasons he was the team’s starting center, and on a good night Reggie would score maybe 12 points and grab a dozen or so rebounds. But he was grossly overmatched when the opposing center was someone like Bill Russell or Wilt Chamberlain.
Harding's basketball career was cut short at age 26 by a number of personal problems. As a player, he spent time in jail and was rumored to carry a pistol in his gym bag, and caused problems with his teammates with antics such as threatening them and the Pacers' general manager Mike Storen with his gun (the latter occurring on television). Harding also often struggled with drug addictions.
Harding returned to the streets of his youth and fell in with the wrong crowd. The story is legendary of him putting on a ski mask and robbing his neighborhood liquor store at gunpoint.
“What are you doing, Reggie?,” the proprietor asked of the seven-foot-tall robber.
“It ain’t me, man,” Reggie replied.
According to Peter Benjaminson's "The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard," Harding raped Florence Ballard, a member of The Supremes, at knifepoint in 1960.
In September, 1972, at 30 years of age, Harding was on the streets, chatting up some friends. A car drove by, shouted his name, and some words were exchanged. Someone in the car opened fire with a gun. Harding was dead, a bullet through his skull and brain.
Patti Labelle Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By Iconic Soul Singer
As we all know, celebs are people just like us, who have their fair share of hardships in life, but this one is a shocker! Patti Labelle has said that a very well known, iconic soul singer attempted to rape her back in the 60’s…
According to Patti, it was Jackie Wilson who attempted to rape her backstage at a theater.
Patti LaBelle has had a wonderful career, one that spans five decades and has resulted in her being a legend, a superstar and, yes, a super diva.
But like anyone else, she has had her share of downs, one of which involves being the victim of an attempted rape by another of the greatest singers and performers of all time, the iconic Jackie Wilson.
It happened, LaBelle alleges, in the early 1960s. At the time she was with the group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, who were known for their thrilling stage shows (they were often called “The Sweethearts of the Apollo”), but could not get the hit records and wide recognition their talent merited.
They fared better in the 1970s as the progressive trio LaBelle. (“Lady Marmalade” is a classic).
The scene was backstage at a theater and LaBelle happened to be alone. Someone, she says, came up behind her.
“It was Jackie Wilson,” she recalled. “He was kissing my neck and I could smell the liquor on his breath. As I struggled to free myself, Jackie’s accomplice started dragging me in backwards. I was kicking with all my might, but I was no match for him.”
Next thing she knew, she was locked in a room.
“Jackie started touching. I started screaming, but no one could hear me. I didn’t have a knife, but I had my voice. I started screaming even louder, at the top of my lungs, and I can scream every bit as loud as I can sing.”
She continued, “It worked. Suddenly they backed off. They let me go. I ran as fast as I could in the direction of the lights.”
Gladys Knight didn’t deny the accuracy of Patti LaBelle’s story, but remembers Jackie Wilson as a perfect gentleman who always went out of his way to help Gladys Knight & the Pips in the group’s early days.
One man, two remembrances.
Patti Labelle Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By Iconic Soul Singer
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As we all know, celebs are people just like us, who have their fair share of hardships in life, but this one is a shocker! Patti Labelle has said that a very well known, iconic soul singer attempted to rape her back in the 60’s…
According to Patti, it was Jackie Wilson who attempted to rape her backstage at a theater.
Patti LaBelle has had a wonderful career, one that spans five decades and has resulted in her being a legend, a superstar and, yes, a super diva.
But like anyone else, she has had her share of downs, one of which involves being the victim of an attempted rape by another of the greatest singers and performers of all time, the iconic Jackie Wilson.
It happened, LaBelle alleges, in the early 1960s. At the time she was with the group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, who were known for their thrilling stage shows (they were often called “The Sweethearts of the Apollo”), but could not get the hit records and wide recognition their talent merited.
They fared better in the 1970s as the progressive trio LaBelle. (“Lady Marmalade” is a classic).
The scene was backstage at a theater and LaBelle happened to be alone. Someone, she says, came up behind her.
“It was Jackie Wilson,” she recalled. “He was kissing my neck and I could smell the liquor on his breath. As I struggled to free myself, Jackie’s accomplice started dragging me in backwards. I was kicking with all my might, but I was no match for him.”
Next thing she knew, she was locked in a room.
“Jackie started touching. I started screaming, but no one could hear me. I didn’t have a knife, but I had my voice. I started screaming even louder, at the top of my lungs, and I can scream every bit as loud as I can sing.”
She continued, “It worked. Suddenly they backed off. They let me go. I ran as fast as I could in the direction of the lights.”
Gladys Knight didn’t deny the accuracy of Patti LaBelle’s story, but remembers Jackie Wilson as a perfect gentleman who always went out of his way to help Gladys Knight & the Pips in the group’s early days.
One man, two remembrances.
Patti Labelle Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By Iconic Soul Singer
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this low key got me infuriated right now
like really
hey he himself said in his book how a woman will straight up test a man no matter what,etc. I'm paraphrasing but i remember him in the book even talking about Betty and using her as an example. I forget what he said but we shouldn't be shocked. We should start learning NO WOMAN is that much different.
Sam Cooke's entire body was inside of Aretha's big ass titties Sometimes i wish one day someone released like a 700 page bok or some documentary that gave everyone all this dirt known for years or that some people didn't know. where they basically talked about everyone except for the jackson family because we know their dirt already....although it is VERY VERY STRANGE
that Latoya Jackson even when she was a teenager before the surgery doesn't look like Katherine or Joe... But yeah i wish we would get something like that and it could cause controversy and we could shut up those old folks in our family who act like their era was full of angels.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
there was similar scene like that in White Men Can't jump
