Diana Ross will star in Glastonbury 2022, which includes an all-star lineup including Billie Eilish, Lorde, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Paul McCartney.
Music icon Diana Ross is sure to delight fans when she takes the stage for the Glastonbury Festival this weekend.
The Stop In The Name Of Love singer will star in the slot Legends, following in the footsteps of Chain Reaction singer-songwriter Barry Gibb.
Over the decades, he has had a hugely successful music career, both on The Supremes and as a solo artist, but he also had an interesting love life.
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From finding love with record executive Berry Gordy to meeting major rock stars and rumors of a love affair with Michael Jackson, the film takes a closer look at Diana Ross’ love life.
Berry Gordi
Diana Ross not only found fame when she signed to Motown Records in the 1960s, she also found love.
Motown founder Berry Gordy met the singer when she was part of the trio The Primettes, who then signed with the label after finishing school with a new name: The Supremes.
They reportedly became a couple in 1965, with the founder telling Playboy: “Everyone knew Diana was my little girl.”
In addition to their sweet relationship, the stars also continued to collaborate after Diana Ross left The Supremes, both in Diana’s solo work and in films, including Billie Holliday’s biopic Lady Sings The Blues.
However, Diana and Berry separated a few years later and decided not to see each other again.
Though the couple have since split up, Berry Gordy has continued to talk about Diana in interviews over the decades, telling Vanity Fair, “She was my star, and she came from below.
It wasn’t just fun with her, it was like heaven working with her because she got through it all … and always maintained her self-esteem.
“He always said to me, ‘If you think about it, I can do it.’ And she did it. “
Robert Ellis Silberstein
Following her split from Berry Gordy, Diana Ross met music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein while shopping in Los Angeles.
However, Diana Ross and Berry Gordy later shared a night together during this time, from which Diana became pregnant with their daughter Rhonda.
Two months pregnant with daughter Rhona, Diana married Robert and the music manager raised Rhonda with the singer.
Diana Ross later revealed on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1993 that Rhonda was the daughter of Berry Gordy, and the singer also told her daughter who her father was when she was 13.
Berry Gordy told Playboy magazine: “He thought the boy shouldn’t have known anything until he was able to handle it and understand it.
“She made a wise decision, because when she told her, Rhonda handled it well.”
A year after they got married in 1972, Diana welcomed her first child with Robert, a daughter named Tracee Joy, and the couple went on to welcome a second daughter named Chudney Lane.
Speaking to People magazine in 1976, Diana described Robert as “a rare thing, a young, lively and very handsome gentleman, all the fancy things you think of in a husband.”
However, the couple later divorced in 1977.
Gene Simmons
Rock icon and Kiss guitarist Gene Simmons met Diana Ross in 1979 while dating fellow music icon Cher, after the singer advised him to call Diana Ross to find out what she should get him for Christmas.
Describing her as a “strong woman”, Gene told the Mirror: “One Christmas I asked her what I had to bring her and she said, ‘Call my friend Diana Ross, she’ll tell you exactly what I like, as she’s my best friend. .. “.
“So I called Diana and we went shopping.
“Then our feelings for each other developed very quickly and we started a relationship together. I guess Cher and Diana haven’t spoken to each other since.
The couple dated until 1984, when Gene Simmons met a Playboy buddy named Shannon Tweed, who told Diana about three weeks later.
Gene also married Shannon in 2011, with whom he shares two children named Nick and Sophie.
Arne Naess Jr.
A year after her romance with Gene Simmons ended, Diana Ross married her husband Arne Naess Jr, who was a Norwegian businessman.
The couple were married for over 15 years between 1985 and 2000, during which time the couple welcomed two children named Ross Arne and Evan Olav.
However, tragedy struck when Arne was killed in an accident in 2004.
He was climbing the Groot Drakenstein mountains, about 70km from Cape Town, when he apparently slipped, police spokeswoman Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said at the time.
Speaking about Arne in an interview with Closer magazine, Diana said: “He was lovely.
He was a man, such a lover. A romantic. [There are] so many wonderful things about Arne.
“A great businessman, fearless. Intrepid. You would never think anything would happen to him. We will miss him “.
Michael Jackson
Another future star also signed a deal with Motown Records in the 1960s, this time a young Michael Jackson.
Michael’s biographer and close friend J Randy Taraborrelli wrote in his book, Call Me Miss Ross, that Diana Ross said Michael “idolized” her.
However, despite rumors that the two were having an affair, J Randy Taraborrelli confirmed that there is no relationship between them.
Although there was no relationship, Michael was said to be “heartbroken” when Diana Ross married Arne Naess Jr in 1986, with Michael later saying to Taraborrelli, “I was jealous because I have always loved Diana Ross and that I will love her. always”.
The two singers remained close friends until Michael Jackson’s death at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009.
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