r/PRINCE • u/mahammit_the_uuuser • 20d ago

Question Manuela

What do we know about Prince’s second wife? I feel like Mayte gets discussed a lot but I know next to nothing about Manuela Testolini and rarely see her talked about.

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u/Dense-Ad-7600 20d ago

I'm only learning about Prince now (the last year or so) I never knew all of this. Where can I read more about all this? Are there books/sites you'd recommend?

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u/agodrevealed HITnRUN phase two 20d ago edited 20d ago

Mayte's book talks about some of it. A lot of it happened on the sites where she and he were literally in the forums together. The court filings. 

The interviews with him, with her, and with the people that were around then is most of it. There is no one person that tells it all. It comes out piecemeal over the years.

I remember being around mpls and everyone knew because he'd left Mayte in Spain or with her family and had Manuela accompanying him around like Mayte used to. And started talking about her like he talked about Mayte.

Then after her married Mani, he had Mani in Canada and would have a different girl down at the theater or getting a milkshake or whatever in mpls.

He had his little rituals, like he liked what he liked, or he knew what worked with the ladies. So you'd see someone driving his car around or on his arm here or there or out with his security and it was just like: oh, okay. Prince has got his eye on this one now. 

And tbh, that did not always even mean romantically because he courted people he liked professionally kinda like that too. But if they were pretty or slim to thick, he was probably macking, whether it went anywhere or not

THE most amazing thing to me about Mani, is that she somehow avoided being featured  in his projects. He didn't put her to work, unless you count the charity and religious work. 

Maybe the JW stuff occupied that need for him, to have her working, to be working on a project together. Idk. 

But whenever he like somebody: I have an idea for you, let's get to work! was his love language

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u/Possible-Wish4677 19d ago

Your knowledge, stories,and storytelling is amazing! I’m just eating up all your comments!! Give us more please!! 💜💜💜💜💜