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Berry Gordy, Bob Ellis, Arne Næss Jr., Michael Jackson: The Men in Diana Ross's Life

Aisle Tell You What | A Love Black History Podcast

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Diana Ross’s love life has been as luminous as her career, with several high-profile relationships that the world is still talking about. So you know I'll tell you all about it.

00:00 Intro
01:27 Moment in Love Black History: Dizzy & Lorraine Gillespie
03:28 Diana Ross & Berry Gordy
08:16 Diana Ross & Bob Ellis Silberstein
17:17 The Man After Bob Ellis
20:19 Diana Ross & Arne Naess, Jr.
26:18 Diana Ross & Michael Jackson
30:16 TL;DR / Conclusion

Aisle Tell You What is a weekly podcast that shares the weddings, marriages, and romances of Black figures throughout time. We bask on these relationships not to be messy but to remind you of the passion in our past and to humanize the people we put on pedestals. Basically, it's all love… Black History. Aisle Tell You What is brought to you by Hueido.

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20 Comments

@nitagentris941 4 months ago

I read in Mary Wilson's book "Dreamgirl: My Life As A Supreme", that Berry Gordy had his eye on Florence Ballard first. He took Florence to a Burlesque style show to see if Flo would be willing to take the bait. Florence wasn't interested in being that type of entertainer. Berry Gordy wasn't happy about the rejection and sought to destroy Florence Ballard moving forward.

@PTNY05 3 months ago

Diana was experiencing life the way men get cheered on for doing. I love that for her, she had a great time in life and can be sure she was a good mother! She had her ups and downs, but she pushed through every time! Love her ❤

@Invaluable1 4 months ago

Not to mention all the other artists she slept with. Even though some of them were married. MJ's song Dirty Diana was right on about her.

@AlanaJ41 10 days ago

Diana literally said that her and Michael were in love . She knew what she was doing

@AllOfIndy 4 months ago

Diana lived her life!

@feleciamorris3197 4 months ago

Being a good mother is a redeeming factor.

@Hardeep-s6n8u 4 months ago

Michael wanting to marry her is not a rumour its actually true it was in a 1982 ebony interview
And he wrote that remember the time is 'dedicated with love to diana ross' in his album😭

@CruzRosa-kk1nl 4 months ago (edited)

You left out Eddie Kendrick, Smokey Robinson. Oh, and don't forget Brian Dozier from the Motown trio songwriting team Holland, Dozier, Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland). Diana was having an affair with Brian while he was married. She went to bed with him to get first pickings on their songs and obtain preferential treatment by the trio songwriting team. Diana was extremely ambitious and clawed her way to the top to the detriment of the many singers who were popular at that time period like: Mary Wells, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, the countless women who were married to the men she had affairs with, etc. etc.

@Winnib7479 3 months ago

Diana Ross dated several Motown artists, Eddie Kendricks and Marvin Gaye , just to name a few. These men acknowledged their relationships with her.

@AhShayInstitute 4 months ago

I loved this episode. I learned so much about Diana I did not know.

@MJMedia09ReturnsVerified 11 days ago (edited)

Diana Ross never had a thing about MJ's "plastic surgery" as it was mostly makeup outside his vitiligo and adding his scalp burns that resulted in wearing hair pieces. Michael disclosed in his Moonwalk book Moonwalk book 1988 p.166 his thought on Diana marriage to Arne Naess: "When I heard that Diana Ross was getting married, I was very happy for her because I knew it would make her very joyous. Still it was hard for me, because I had to walk around pretending to be overwhelmed that Diana was getting married to this man I've never met. I wanted her to be happy but I have to admit that I was a bit hurt and a little JEALOUS because I've always loved Diana and I always will."

@wandac.braswell7998 4 months ago

You forgot Eddie Kendricks!

@lindapetty2502 4 months ago

Good material coverage!

@altheatrotman5606 4 months ago

Eddie KENDRICK you forgot

@kdcreative9541 4 months ago (edited)

Michael and Diana were secretly engaged he asked her to marry him twice and Katherine didn’t approved and Diana was concerned about how the public would view their relationship and 14 year age difference so she turned him down and then quickly married her last husband but was still seeing MJ on the side. MJ was very hurt by this hence Dirty Diana song

@audrainejackson6717 4 months ago

When grown women say first love it often translates to first intimate experience. Even Diana reportedly said Michael was definitely not gay. Hopeful romantic???? You truly sanitized her encounters like the men weren't married while with her. Ask Eddie Kendrick's wife.

@christineray6326 4 months ago

You forgot smokey Robinson Eddie Kendricks David Ruffin and the list goes on.

@heyyallfromflorida5535 4 months ago

DIRTY DIANA!!!!

@jerryrobinpendleton5171 4 months ago (edited)

Diana used Berry and he used her to get what they wanted! She was the same kind of cutthroat that he was! She slept with her boss to get favor. Her goal was always to be a single performer. She wasn’t the best singer or the prettiest of the Supremes! Berry and Diana did not hide their affair. She threw the other girls who she had grown up with under the bus! Berry financially cheated all the black talent on his label! The two of them just aren’t good people! Dianna got pregnant by Barry and married Bob right away to cover the pregnancy. The baby girl came out looking just like Barry. Bob knew he wasn’t the dad but loved the baby as his own. Bob was a very involved dad to all 3 of his girls. It was shocking when Dianna married the European millionaire and had 2 babies by him in her 40’s! I read Mary Wilson’s book years ago and she told everything. Diana was a selfish user who only thought of her success! The 2 other Supremes were treated like garbage by Dianna and Berry!

@mariangelydiaz9533 1 month ago

Esta mujer corrio mucho mundo desde sus 16 años y un chico enamorado desde qué era un niño de una mujer que ya tenía una gran experiencia con hombres y hasta con hijos wao enserio qué el amor es ciego