
Seems like Diana Ross screwed the pooch, again. And this time the pooch did not leave money on the nightstand, it made a new tell-all book. And guess what, you guys? Diana Ross was a bitch to work with. Like you didn’t know that.
Diana Ross may have been a Motown goddess, but she was a devil as a boss, according to a new bio.
“Most of the time, Diana’s emotional outbursts were about things that really didn’t matter much to anyone but her,” writes J. Randy Taraborrelli in his “Diana Ross,” out in September from Citadel Press.
The one-time Supreme fired her entire staff, for instance, after unflattering stories about her found their way into the papers. Not satisfied to stop there, Taraborelli says, she bad-mouthed eight of her former assistants in a letter.
“If I let an employee go, it’s because either their work or their personal habits are not acceptable to me,” wrote Ross. “I do not recommend these people. In fact, if you hear from these people and they use my name as a reference, I wish to be contacted.”
This is not even the half of it. Apparently Joan Tracee had something to do with it also, just for the fact that her mother was a crazy chick.
But it was personal assistant Michael Browne who hefted the heaviest load of Ross’ whims, Taraborelli says.
He put up with her then-9-year-old daughter, Tracee, who was known for carrying a notebook and pencil everywhere she went. If she saw one of Ross’ functionaries doing something she thought was wrong, she would quickly jot it down and later report it to her mother, says the author.
Just before Christmas one year, Ross flipped out when Browne failed at his task of hiding $100,000 worth of wrapped presents on a private jet Ross and her daughters were taking to Vegas.
“I thought I told you I didn’t want to see a single present,” hissed Ross when she spotted one under her then-8-year-old daughter Chudney’s seat. “Not one single present. … Is it so much to ask?”
Them Rosses be trippin’. That diva shit is a real turn-off too, that’s why she BOTHERS me. If it was the 70’s, I WOULDNOT smash.
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