PanacheReport – Under the influence of drugs, he became brutal! He started off clean in the industry but was turned on to drugs by a popular black comic who is now deceased. They holed up in a hotel room and did drugs around the clock. After this episode, he became unreliable, violent and agitated. Shortly after a publicized divorce, he hit the stage to perform. He spotted a very pretty girl in the front row and signaled to one of his handlers to approach her. After the show, she came backstage, she told him she was 19, when in reality she was 16. They traded contact information and he promised to take her on tour. The next day, he showed up at her house, money was exchanged and she was taken on tour. A few months later, she would join his stage show (in the background). He would eventually take her innocence and marry her. Coming from a small town didn’t prepare her for the drug fueled orgies and out of town sex parties. Life became a fast paced, fast movie party. Menage a trois was even commonplace. Over the years, she got tired of his emotional and physical abuse and started a discreet relationship with a filthy rich white woman. The woman was a heiress to a wealthy family in the U.S. This family is so prominent, they also known by their last name only. She would eventually leave him for the woman. This didn’t sit well with his male ego and domineering personality, his wife leaving him for another woman. Some of his band mates were laughing at him. One night, after getting high and drunk, he called the hit man he had on payroll and ordered up a hit on his soon to be ex-wife. Thankfully, he sobered up in time to cancel the hit-the following day. Meanwhile, his ex-wife would move into a Beverly Hills mansion with her new sugar mama. They also shared homes in the Hamptons and Palm Beach. They were lovey dovey for several years until her rich family was tipped off (probably by the ex-husband) about her living with a beautiful black woman. They cut her off financially and forced her out of all three homes. Last we heard, they were scrambling to survive. Hint: The abusive husband is no longer living.
Who is the abusive husband?
Who was the comic who turned him on to drugs?
Ike and Tina?
popular black comic now deceased…bernie mac? richard pryor? idk many
I’m guessing Richard Pryor for the deceased comic and Isaac Hayes for the abusive husband. Just a hunch.
I’ll go with you if this is true at all.
I don’t know why it don’t say it here but on panache report site it gave another hint saying the comic wasn’t richard pryor.
It could be Ike because I just watched Tina Turner’s biography and the story is similar to the BI but not sure about the comic. Let’s go with Red Foxx.
I like the sound of Tina Turner because Ike was a douche however I doubt she’s struggling for money. Sisters gotta be rolling in it!
You’re right. I doubt the black woman is famous.
That’s just such a sad and sick story.
James Brown…the musician, Redd Foxx the comic. They were both crazy, and drug crazed.
Abusive husband — Dean Martin.
Comic — Nipsey Russell
“He started off clean in the industry but was turned on to drugs by a popular black comic”. Nipsey Russell.
http://www.nndb.com/people/986/000022920/
“he called the hit man he had on payroll “. Who has a hit man on payroll? Rat Pack.
“he became brutal!” and “she got tired of his emotional and physical abuse” and “his male ego and domineering personality”. Dean Martin. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/FK13Jp12.html
http://www.nndb.com/people/871/000023802/
Do I win a prize? Took a lot of research to find that one.
…but, but…did Mr. Martin ever have an AA wife? Given the era, I doubt it. The “ex”-wife, in this blind, is AA.
I think Lynne may be right. Dean Martin’s 1st wife Betty McDonald was an alcoholic. Link: http://www.answers.com/topic/dean-martin – about 3/4 way down talks about whether marriage failed due to her alcoholism or his infidelities…sounds like alot of partying was going on, which fits the blind.
Noooooo. AA here refers to African American, *not* Alcoholics Anonymous. The ex-wife is a “beautiful black woman.”
geez….was up all night, should’ve read the thing more closely before posting….back to bed now…..
LOL at “The ex-wife in this blind is AA”. I am just waking up so was a bit confused at first till I realized that no, you don’t mean me. AA are just my initials by the way. I’m not African American nor Alcoholics Anonymous.
Tina Turner is gay??? Who would the white heiress sugar mama be then?
I always find it quite hard to suspend disbelief for these Panache blinds.
Well, let’s look at who we are looking for and what we know about them:
(1) Popular black comic, now deceased, who was basically a drug fiend
(2) A man in a band (most likely the front man) who toured with a stage show. Started out with a clean reputation in the industry, but after hooking up with our comic, started partying and never stopped. He was domineering and mean. He also had hitman “on call”, which would imply mob connections (perhaps because he played in Las Vegas??) And since it sounds like this happened MANY years ago, when interracial marriage was pretty uncommon, he must have been black, too, since his wife was. He must have had a LOT of money, too. Oh, and he’s deceased, too.
(3) His wife. She’s black and much younger than her husband. She’s his second wife, after a publicized divorce from his first wife. She was, at one time, part of his stage show. Since she and her sugar mama are “scrambling to survive”, it doesn’t sound like she’s famous herself. So, I doubt we would even know who she is, but for her husband.
(4) The wealthy woman from a prominent family, whose name we would know. From the BI, it sounds like she’s white.
OK…now what?
fyi
“…and started a discreet relationship with a filthy rich white woman.”
Also…I don’t think this is anyone from the Rat Pack era…I’m thinking all this partying must have gone on in the 70s and/or 80s.
For the comic, I’m thinking Richard Pryor or Redd Foxx. For the husband, I like the Isaac Hayes guess, too.
This is SO NOT Tina Turner. She’s not exactly struggling to survive, nor was she EVER “in the background” onstage with Ike. She was right up there in the front with him.
Name we all know … Kennedy? Fits in with the Rat Pack-era direction the guesses seem to be headed.
Ummmm…Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was NOT black.
no, the abused wife was black — the famous lady has no mention of race
“…and started a discreet relationship with a filthy rich white woman.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is dead. It says in the BI, regarding the two women, “last we heard, they were scrambling to survive”, which means the two women are still alive.
James Brown fits the m/o for the husband, and he seemed to have a penchant for pretty women. Which one of his wives, I have no clue.
Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana
I really liked this guess, but I don’t think they were ever married. I thought of Sammy Davis Jr as the singer when reading the BI though.
I think the comic is redd foxx. I heard Elvis turned him on the stuff.
The rich white women was prolly a Hilton, Kennedy or a Vanderbilt.
ohhh…Wasn’t there lesbian rumors about Caroline Kennedy..Or some Kennedy.
Could be a DuPont too. They’re a bunch of crazies.
I’m going to go with Ray Charles for the abusive husband. He got involved with one of his backup singers while with his first wife. Don’t know if he ever divorced the first wife and married the backup singer, though . . .
Ummm…it says he “spotted a pretty young thing in the front row”. Unless her face was printed in Braille, I can’t see how that would happen. Ray Charles was blind.
Thanks, that made my morning.
“Unless her face was printed in Braille…” LOLOLOLOL Sorry that struck me funny bone! And I meant to type “me” instead of “my”
Robert Blake
This is juicy but I have no clue!
How about Flip Wilson? He was pretty funny but not sure if he was married. Or a drug fiend for that matter. Can’t think of any other black comics who are DEAD. What a heck of a blind. I never get any of these!!
Uh,I take that back, just realized it was the other guy NOT the dead comic who was married. Sheesh.
I’m more interested in the ladies’ story! Who are they? They’re still alive? US families with prominent names: Johnson, Dupont, Rockefeller, Kennedy, Vanderbilt, Rothschild, Guggenheim,Ford! I wish this blind would give a decade.
I think this is one of the Motown bands from the 60′s such as the Temptations, the Four Tops or maybe Smoky RObinson and the Imperials. Alot of them got into some pretty crazy scenes and were constantly on the road. Also, alot of the major players in some of the Motown bands are now dead.
rich white lady…patty hearst?
this has to be one of the toughest blinds ever but the gossip master will take it on. the answer to this blind once tried out for the pro football detriot lions.in 1968 he sang one of the greatest songs of all time.the comic who turned him on to drugs was redd foxx. during the 1980′s he was murdered by his father.the answer marvin gaye
Well, I, for one, thank you for that WW. This is one of the most interesting blinds I’ve ever read.
Now…would you please be so kind as to tell us who Janis’ lover is? The beautiful ex-wife is Janis, right?
I think you’re right. Who is Janis’s girlfriend??
Marvin Gaye was such a talent…
if this is for real, I think the white woman we are looking for is in the bottom left of this picture:
http://www.facebook.com/janis.gaye