Rumors,feuds,and scandals from Old Black Hollywood

[Neuromancer]

According to Rick James: I hit rock bottom, the Mary Jane Girls were gone. Process and the Doo Rags split up. Val Young was now with Bobby Brown and most of the Stone City Band had left. I couldn't support them any longer because I was too busy getting high.

My world was crumbling right in front of me and I didn't care.

All my time was spent getting high and waiting on death.

Sometimes I would meet a chick and we'd get high for hours. Soon as she said she was married, something inside me said "NO!" The night I met Vanity at the awards, I also met Robert DeNiro's wife Barbara. She came on so strong that I was freaking. As soon as I found out she was Bobby's wife, I left her alone, and that's the truth.

I love gay people, especially the ones who don't thrown their shyt in your face. I have found some men handsome and even attractive-on a man level-that's honesty. But never have I wanted a man to suck my d**k or me to suck his.

When my contract was up with Motown, I flew to New York to meet with Clive Davis at Arista. I've always had a lot of respect for Clive, even though he refused the Mary Jane Girls when I was shopping them before Motown snapped them up. Clive, upon hearing their tape, sent me a letter telling me he didn't think the Mary Jane Girls were going to hit. He later apologized.

Back home, every hour of the day or night, the house was filled with people indulging in orgies, kinky ass sex, bestiality, all kinds of shyt. Decadence and perversion ruled and the people who tired of it were easily replaced. I thrived on breaking in women, conquering and destroying, turning them on to freebase. The atmosphere was wild and evil.

Things had gotten so bad that I was studying the occult and I started claiming the devil.

In the midst of all this insanity and drug use, a woman named Cathy Townsend, daughter of Ed Townsend who co-wrote "Let's Get It On & Got To Give It Up," with Marvin Gaye. She started hanging around. Unfounded rumors suggest that her mother is white singer Connie Francis.

Anyway, I had met Cathy before and she was a born thief, and a hoe, which is how she paid for her drugs, still, I liked her. She was very funny and always kept me laughing. One day Cathy brought a girl, Courtney, to the house as a gift for me. She was dressed like a hoe. The first fifteen minutes she was there we were on the floor having sex. Later, I found out she loved smoking coke and she loved women.

When she left after spending a month with me, she went back to her pimp at a motel where they were staying. The pimp was a drug dealer and a drug addict, and he was furious at her for being at my house and not coming back with no money. This pimp had a way of punishing his women. He burned them with a pipe.

My girlfriend ended up taking Courtney to the hospital, the police came after me because when my girlfriend left the hospital, the staff took down my license plate number.

It was a big conspiracy.

damn. RIP Rick. sad story.

 

[Adebisi_Said]

call me a chatty patty,gossiping hoe all you want

but the fukkery that went on back then was on another level


inspired by the Aretha Franklin feud thread

Aretha Franklin Stayed Beefing With Other Singers.

post some stories you heard/know about black celebrities from back in the day

You have anything on the Sylvers?

 

[Lo-Co]

According to Deborah Santana, before she married Carlos Santana she used to date Sly Stone. Deborah and Carlos divorced after 34 years of marriage. Damaging allegations regarding Sly Stone


She lost her virginity to Sly and she accuses Sly of being a former pimp.
Sly used to beat her up viciously and call her a bytch in front of his friends.
Sly made her have an abortion with a coat hanger.

first post i see when i came back to this thread. shyt is a doozy

 

[Claudex]

Yo, why he combined a karate chop with a slap though?

The Legend was finna cut her in half but then he remembered he was in public, so he hit her with that more merciful love tap.

 

[Ol’Otis]

don't know if i mentioned it earlier Aretha Franklin dad was killed
rumors say it was a drug deal dispute

C.L. Franklin, 69, Activist And Father of Aretha Franklin

DETROIT, July 27— The Rev. C. L. Franklin, civil rights activist and father of soul-singer Aretha Franklin, died today.

He was 69.

Mr. Franklin had been in a coma since suffering a gunshot wound in a robbery at his home five years ago.

Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young said Mr. Franklin was ''a preacher's preacher whose message reached far beyond'' his church ''to attract and mobilize congregations throughout the country.''

''His leadership of the historic freedom march down Woodward Avenue in Detroit with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by his side in June of 1963, and involving some 125,000 people, provided the prototype for Dr. King's successful march in Washington later that summer,'' Mr. Young said.

 

[Ol’Otis]

more on C.L Franklin

-fathered a daughter by Mildred Jennings, a 12-year-old girl in his New Salem Baptist Church congregation.
-was good friends with Dr.King (King was another one who got around

 

[Ol’Otis]

aint she (Lola Falana) one of inspirations @Prima Donna

Dinah Washington and Lola Falana.

"The gossip was that Dinah came back to her room after a show and found Lola in the bed and they decide to get it on but things got quickly out of hand because one of the two of them had a toe fetish and one of the two of them bit the other so viciously that someone was sent to the hospital with a mangled toe. Another version of the story is that Washington bit a plug out of Falana's ankle.

I recently reconnected with the woman who told me this and so far, she has refused to answer any of my correspondence on the matter. She wants to forget it but I can never forget it especially when I heard it again some years later from someone else who worked in the camp of another very famous but now deceased black male singer. I just thought that was so amazing and hearing it again was never too much!

"Have you ever fukked a woman" Dinah reportedly asked Dorothy Anderson, trumpeter "Cat" Anderson's wife. The two were used to sharing the same bed during the early days of travel with the Lionel Hampton band. "NO" Dorothy shot back. "And YOU better turn over and go to sleep" she quickly replied. Was Dinah just being outrageous or did she really want to taste her some Dorothy? Who cares and why?

 

[ill_will82]

According to Rick James: I hit rock bottom, the Mary Jane Girls were gone. Process and the Doo Rags split up. Val Young was now with Bobby Brown and most of the Stone City Band had left. I couldn't support them any longer because I was too busy getting high.

My world was crumbling right in front of me and I didn't care.

All my time was spent getting high and waiting on death.

Sometimes I would meet a chick and we'd get high for hours. Soon as she said she was married, something inside me said "NO!" The night I met Vanity at the awards, I also met Robert DeNiro's wife Barbara. She came on so strong that I was freaking. As soon as I found out she was Bobby's wife, I left her alone, and that's the truth.

I love gay people, especially the ones who don't thrown their shyt in your face. I have found some men handsome and even attractive-on a man level-that's honesty. But never have I wanted a man to suck my d**k or me to suck his.

When my contract was up with Motown, I flew to New York to meet with Clive Davis at Arista. I've always had a lot of respect for Clive, even though he refused the Mary Jane Girls when I was shopping them before Motown snapped them up. Clive, upon hearing their tape, sent me a letter telling me he didn't think the Mary Jane Girls were going to hit. He later apologized.

Back home, every hour of the day or night, the house was filled with people indulging in orgies, kinky ass sex, bestiality, all kinds of shyt. Decadence and perversion ruled and the people who tired of it were easily replaced. I thrived on breaking in women, conquering and destroying, turning them on to freebase. The atmosphere was wild and evil.

Things had gotten so bad that I was studying the occult and I started claiming the devil.

In the midst of all this insanity and drug use, a woman named Cathy Townsend, daughter of Ed Townsend who co-wrote "Let's Get It On & Got To Give It Up," with Marvin Gaye. She started hanging around. Unfounded rumors suggest that her mother is white singer Connie Francis.

Anyway, I had met Cathy before and she was a born thief, and a hoe, which is how she paid for her drugs, still, I liked her. She was very funny and always kept me laughing. One day Cathy brought a girl, Courtney, to the house as a gift for me. She was dressed like a hoe. The first fifteen minutes she was there we were on the floor having sex. Later, I found out she loved smoking coke and she loved women.

When she left after spending a month with me, she went back to her pimp at a motel where they were staying. The pimp was a drug dealer and a drug addict, and he was furious at her for being at my house and not coming back with no money. This pimp had a way of punishing his women. He burned them with a pipe.

My girlfriend ended up taking Courtney to the hospital, the police came after me because when my girlfriend left the hospital, the staff took down my license plate number.

It was a big conspiracy.

 

[EffedUp]

Finally read all the way through. Dope ass thread.

The thing that sticks out to me sadly was the post with Otis Redding's photo from the morgue. I'd never seen shyt like that before. Spooky as fukk.
To be found in the water, frozen and still strapped to your seat.

 

[ill_will82]

Finally read all the way through. Dope ass thread.

The thing that sticks out to me sadly was the post with Otis Redding's photo from the morgue. I'd never seen shyt like that before. Spooky as fukk.
To be found in the water, frozen and still strapped to your seat.

Yeah I saw that picture yrs ago and that shyt creeped me out.

 

[James Gordon]

Finally read all the way through. Dope ass thread.

The thing that sticks out to me sadly was the post with Otis Redding's photo from the morgue. I'd never seen shyt like that before. Spooky as fukk.
To be found in the water, frozen and still strapped to your seat.

I jus saw it wish I never did rest in peace to the goat

 

[Methodical]

Damn. How in the hell I miss this thread?

 

[NormanConnors]

aint she (Lola Falana) one of inspirations @Prima Donna

Dinah Washington and Lola Falana.

"The gossip was that Dinah came back to her room after a show and found Lola in the bed and they decide to get it on but things got quickly out of hand because one of the two of them had a toe fetish and one of the two of them bit the other so viciously that someone was sent to the hospital with a mangled toe. Another version of the story is that Washington bit a plug out of Falana's ankle.

I recently reconnected with the woman who told me this and so far, she has refused to answer any of my correspondence on the matter. She wants to forget it but I can never forget it especially when I heard it again some years later from someone else who worked in the camp of another very famous but now deceased black male singer. I just thought that was so amazing and hearing it again was never too much!

"Have you ever fukked a woman" Dinah reportedly asked Dorothy Anderson, trumpeter "Cat" Anderson's wife. The two were used to sharing the same bed during the early days of travel with the Lionel Hampton band. "NO" Dorothy shot back. "And YOU better turn over and go to sleep" she quickly replied. Was Dinah just being outrageous or did she really want to taste her some Dorothy? Who cares and why?

Lola was bad in her day

She was 45 in this one

 

[Jemmy]

classic thread

 

[newworldafro]

classic thread

I think what is good about this thread is the fact that it rips the blindfold off how "young people and people in general use to be back in the day"......fukkery is as human as finger nails growing.

Our Legacy Elders were Young, Horny and Ornery at one time too, but still managed to excel in their artistry, socio-political endeavors, etc....even in the midst of in your face explicit Jim Crow Racial Codes.

So the lesson is no excuse for not being excellent, overcome the fukkery and get down to business.