Aretha Franklin is threatening legal action over a new unauthorized biography, “Respect,” by her former ghostwriter David Ritz — which makes wild claims about her sexual promiscuity on the 1950s gospel circuit, known by insiders as the “Sex Circus,” when she was a young teen.
The gospel circuit, which Aretha and her own father toured on, was known as the “Sex Circus,” with “men-and-men and women-and-women hookups.”Singer Etta James is quoted, “I can understand Aretha not wanting to talk about that . . . Who wants to admit that you’re praising the Lord at the 8 p.m. service and servicing some drop-dead gorgeous hunk of a singer an hour later? Aretha and I started out before we were teenagers . . . we wanted to experience it all. I wouldn’t use the expression sexually active, I’d say sexually overactive.”
I came in expecting the adjective promiscuous appearing once in the biography and her being set off, but this is frugally understandable. Still funny though @ kiii at Etta.
Aretha was allegedly sexually promiscuous at a young age and when she became pregnant at age 12, some folks blamed her father while others suspected he was the dad! He wasn't. But still....
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12-year-old Aretha allegedly had an affair with 23-year-old R&B singer Sam Cooke.
she was always blunt.
