Dionne Warwick

Great singer, but seems like a bit of a wacko. Plus is her voice pretty much shot?

Lesbian crone.

Awful woman.

I know someone who worked with her a lot and they said everyone calls her Dionne Warwitch.

I spoke with someone else who was running a charity in the past year with names much bigger then her. She was the ONLY one who asked that they pay her to appear.

She appeared at an AIDS charity years ago. She and her entourage billed the charity so much for first class airfare and hotels that the event ended up losing money for the charity.

Anybody ever see her 60's plantation blaxploitation movie "Slaves"?

SHE'S A CUNT AND HATES GAYS!!!!

What was that, [R5]? We couldn't hear you.

Inside voices, please. If you need to rage, take it to the "You Queers were no help at all" thread. TIA!

Once added an "e" to the end of her last name on the advice of some psychic advisor. Must not have worked because she changed it back.

R7, it was Linda Goodman that suggested she add the "e".%0D %0D I know of several gay people who are close friends with her. She isn't homophobic in the slightest.%0D %0D Her home is in Brazil.%0D %0D She is extravagant, but also raised billions for AIDS charities at a time when Reagan was doing nothing. She became World Ambassador of Health. It is true that there were some instances of her demanding first class airfare to charity gigs. This it not cool.%0D %0D She is extremely ego-centric, as are all celebrities.%0D %0D Yes, her voice on records is shot. Live, her voice is actually pretty fucking awesome for a lady of 70. She just needs to get warmed up. First few songs are a bit harsh in her shows, but she starts to get going soon after.%0D %0D She still does about 150 concerts a year. Yes, at least 3x a week.%0D %0D Anything else? I could write a book on this lady.

right behind Aretha in 60s awesomeness from a female singer,I still love her.Aretha had the soul,Dionne had the style.

'Alfie' has been recorded by doezens of other artistes but none captures the nuances and sadness of the lyrics like Dionne's version. Whitney said that is the most beautiful recording ever.

I love, love Dionne and Aretha

I met her once years ago and spent a couple of hours with her in an Admirals Club. She was dressed in a pant suit and reading a book on how to win at lotto. I was surprised to learn she was a lesbian and the aunt of Whitney Houston.

Didn't she lose all her money back in the 90s and that's why she still tours? I saw her in concert back then. Fabulous voice but don't be late for her show - she gets mad real easy.

There was a big expose on Ms. Warwitch on 20/20 10+ years ago about her charity being a scam. I am surprised people do not remember this. They eviscerated her. I will google when I get home. She looked like the most evil cunt alive.

Looks like a gargoyle or something. She's an ugly woman regardless of how she used to be able to sing.

Rumor has it that when Burt gave "Close to You" to the Carpenters, instead of Dionne, Warwick had Miss Cleo put the "thinner" curse on Karen.

She duets with Elaine Paige on "That's What Friends Are For" on Ms. Paige's new cd "Elaine Paige and Friends"

Actually, I think San Jose is one of my least favorite of her 60s opuses.%0D %0D 'L.A is a great big freeway put a hundred down and buy a car. In a week maybe two they'll make you a star.' So lame.%0D %0D Same thing the line in Raindrops about his feet being too big for his bed.%0D %0D I love this song which was never famous, but really captures the late 60s for me. I love Dionne & Burt bantering around too. Sure, it's kind of phoney and forced, but when the song comes together...magic. The magic that was Burt & Dionne circa '69.

[quote]right behind Aretha

If she's behind Aretha, we'll never be able to see her!!

"raised billions for AIDS charities"%0D %0D If you're going to write a book on Dionne Warwick, please don't make it fiction. She bankrupted AIDS charities in smaller cities where the non-profit boards were not accustomed to diva demands and show business accounting. Luckily for her, she did it before the internet was ubiquitous and it's not so easy to find all the articles that were written about it at the time.

Dionne liked Karen Carpenter, contrary to popular belief.

John Waters told a hilarious story in his book 'Crackpot' about Dionne Warwick and "Slaves." He said that for some reason the world premiere of the movie was held in Baltimore. Waters said, "I'll never forget the look on Dionne Warwick's face as a young jitterbug sneered 'Hey, Dionne, you bitch, gimme a dollar. Come on, bitch, you can afford it!"

You people MUST read her new book: My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography A hell of a book!

My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography

her new book!

She has a very monotone delivery in song and I know several people who were disappointed in seeing her concert. A song on the radio is very different than a string of them and they deemed her shows boring.

Does she have a new book coming out? I thought I heard that somewhere.

Dionne Warwick has always been number one in my book. Perhaps her personal life has not been exemplary, but neither was Frank Sinatra's or Rosemary Clooney's or . . .

[R18] that's a great song! I just listened to it about 10 times in a row. Thanks.

[quote]I met her once years ago and spent a couple of hours with her in an Admirals Club. She was dressed in a pant suit and reading a book on how to win at lotto. I was surprised to learn she was a lesbian and the aunt of Whitney Houston.%0D %0D %0D Dionne Warwick is a lesbian? Gossip please! Who is/was her gfs?

New book? Good, I'll pick it up. Maybe that will give me a better read on her personality- Rather than relying on the misty media clips at the back of my mind.

[R8], what exactly is her relation to Whitney? Are they close? I'm not a huge Whitney fan but I'm curious about celebrity relatives. What must that be like?

[quote][[R18]] that's a great song! I just listened to it about 10 times in a row. Thanks.%0D %0D %0D Glad you liked it, it's off the (her best) album 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'.%0D %0D Here's another song from the same album.

[quote]Dionne liked Karen Carpenter%0D %0D AFTER she died.

she raised billions for AIDS charities, AND she made unreasonable demands. the two statements aren't mutually exclusive, R20. she didn't bankrupt any charities. you're pulling that out of your ass.%0D %0D she is not a lesbian. that's total bullshit. %0D %0D I love that John Waters story. lol.%0D %0D she was very close to Karen Carpenter. so very close.%0D %0D she is and always has been close to Whitney. Whitney used to tag along with Dionne's tours as a child...and Dionne influenced her heavily.%0D %0D her old elementary school in East Orange, NJ was named after her at one point.%0D %0D when she was busted for pot possession at LAX, she said the pot wasn't hers, and was placed there by someone else. simultaneously, the press went to her aunt Cissy Houston for comment. Cissy said "oh she needs that pot for her glaucoma". whoops!!

Thank you, r18. How sublime.%0D %0D My fave: "Walk on By"

One of my favorite Dionne Warwick albums is called "Just Being Myself." It was produced by Holland/Dozier/Holland shortly after they left Motown. It was a tremendous flop but I liked it.

I don't know about her AIDS charity, but she made headlines after shady dealings with her Obama inaugural ball back in 09.%0D %0D It was supposed to be a once in a lifetime get together of old and young performers duetting. Ludacris, Chaka Khan and others were attending. Yet at the last minute the plug was pulled.%0D %0D All the other performers were given last minute notice, with slips of paper slipped under their doors notifying them of the cancellation. Yet, Dionne had enough time to get a job co-anchoring the inaugural festivies on "ET".%0D %0D For people who had purchased tickets, there was a number you had to call to find out how to get your money back, but it was apparently a wrong number.

I just got the new book! How lucky for me, I Got a used copy!

Link please, R35...to said shady dealings in 2009. It must be available to you.%0D %0D R34, that's also my favorite album. So underrated.

She was my sister's favorite female singer when I was growing up in the 60's, so I'm only familiar with her early Bacharach/Hal David years. My sister played her songs constantly, so they are seared into my brain; I mean that in a good way.

I recently brought a CD of her early hits and had forgotten what a great voice she possessed. THIS EMPTY PLACE, DON'T MAKE ME OVER, MESSAGE TO MICHAEL, ALFIE...just to name a few?

All gems.

This Dionne Warwick song always puts a smile on my face.

"Dionne Warwick Bums People Out"%0D %0D Yesterday, we noted that organizers behind the two American Music Inaugural Balls had cancelled their two events%E2%80%94the Legends Ball and the Urban Ball%E2%80%94at the last minute. Dionne Warwick was supposed to host the Legends Ball while Ludacris was supposed to MC the Urban Ball. The press release noted that the organizers' ball juggling was historic: "It will be the first ever two-ball event in inaugural history." The Washingtonian quoted organizers calling the events "people's balls."%0D %0D Not sure how they were people's balls. Tickets to the Legend's Ball cost $450 per. Tickets to the Urban Ball cost $350 per. If you felt the need to see both Chaka Khan and the Cheetah Girls, you got a slight deal and could pay $650 for a "combo ticket."%0D %0D Well the people apparently voted with their wallets and the events were closed due to lack of interest. But organizers did take people's money. And they have horror stories. Take "Summer" who commented on City Desk:%0D %0D "Dionne Warwick%E2%80%99s Legends ball was cancelled as of late Monday night, and ticket holders were never notified. However, ball organizers, %E2%80%9CThe Friends of Dionne Warwick%E2%80%9D had ticket holder%E2%80%99s email addresses and phone numbers and never bothered to contact anyone. consequently, many did arrive at the Marriot Wardman Park hotel last night only to be informed by Marriot staff that the ball was cancelled. Marriot staff were told by Dionne%E2%80%99s ball organizers to refer ticket holders to their web site for more information. However,as of Tuesday they took down their web site and checked out of the hotel before ticket holders began to arrive! However, they managed to notify all the VIPs who planned to attend. Poor planning, inconsideration, and management on their part and very tacky."%0D %0D Organizers did in fact take down their website. This is what I got when I tried to get on its site. Apparently, Ms. Warwick has now turned into a inaugural grifter. She owes at least a few people their money back!%0D

Oh, by the way, according to Wikipedia, she will be one of the participants on Celebrity Apprentice (March , 2011)

Great youtube videos, R18.%0D %0D I can see now why my sister and her friends were so crazy about Burt Bacharach.

For [r38].

Thanks R40, that's quite damning!%0D %0D I can't wait for her appearance on Apprentice. She's gonna be a riot, I guarantee it.

Here's one of the better songs off "Just Bein' Myself".

I remember reading that she refuses to put out her cigarette when she boards an elevator, which (understandably) infuriates people. Still, I'd love to be on an elevator with Dionne and her cig when some NPR-mom boards with little Peanutalergie in her stroller. And I'd be cheering on Dionne!

I like "Are You There (With Another Girl)?"%0D %0D It's insane.

didn't she date whatshis from Miami Vice?

>>>She has such a beautiful voice

WTF? Are you fucking DEAF? She had an okay voice when in her twenties-thirties. Now it's plenty awful. Jesus H. Christ!

>>> OH, REALLY?

I love this one, it's so campy:

Love her and her cheekbones!! - She is just one of many who had great songs but never made a cent. Her version of 'Say a little Prayer" is the best version I know.

She is in that the same class as Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, etc. He relationship to Whitney Houston just adds to the story.

Hits include:

Alfie San Jose Don't make me Over Say a Little Prayer Theme from Valley of the Dolls Walk on By

Great songs - Love them all.

Someone who would know told me her nostrils are portals to a parallel universe. Her nose was the inspiration for 'Neo,' 'Avatar" and several other science fiction movies.

My favorite song that she covered:

I give her credit for not getting the nose fixed. I love her voice from back in the day. It was truly about her style. You can have Patti Labelle and all that shrieking, I would take Dionne over her anyday. Too bad she is such a delusional diva, but a girl has to get paid I suppose.

Doesn't she have feuds with basically everyone in the music industry? Cathy Hughes pretty much blacklisted her from AC radio.

Whatever you think about her, her voice is totally unique, albeit very very commercial.

She is, ahem, "pitchy," very pitchy, but these are very difficult songs she's singing--it takes a brave soul to attempt some of BB's intervals, and the rhythms are so complex. Some of Bacharach's songs approach the impossible.

Her delivery reminds me of Peggy Lee a bit, the holding back rather than belting, when it's obvious she could blow the roof off if she wanted. And she has just the right attitude toward her material. She makes it look too easy.

Her voice is some kind of wind instrument, a flute with a bell tone attached. Again, totally unique.

I'll never love this way again

I took a long elevator ride with Courtney Love and her lit cigarette once.

Thanks, R57, for the astute analysis.

Her voice and the classic BB songs are a perfect match, as challenging as the tunes are.

My fav.

"I took a long elevator ride with Courtney Love and her lit cigarette once."

Well I took a long elevator ride with Courtney Love AND Dionne Warwick one time. Ashes? No problem. Dionne simply got down on her knees and vacuumed the floor with her nose.

Love Dionne Warwick's music, from the 60's to the 80's! %0D %0D Great stuff!

Show me the receipts R40. Show me the receipts.

Many years ago, I had a roommate whose boyfriend was a drag queen. One day, said queen was visiting and was walking around with his jaw thrust forward. Puzzled, I asked him what the hell he was doing. He replied that he was "doing Dionne that night" in his act and he was getting into character--he picked up a brush for a "microphone" for effect to demonstrate.

I fell on the floor laughing my ass off.

Mine too, r54. And her top and skirt in that video are perfect.%0D %0D runner-up fave- "Anyone Who Had a Heart."

I brought mom to see her at the casino last year. Yes it's pretty much the gayest thing I've ever done. I was the second youngest person there (at 26). Mom was the third youngest. It was a good show! Even though her crappy son sang a few songs. She's kinda old but once her voice was warmed up pretty good. Love the Bacharach songs.

She was kind of fucked over because she couldn't legally sing her songs but I think that's sorted now. Dolly Parton is a smart cookie, writing her own stuff, sitting on zillions.

[quote]She is just one of many who had great songs but never made a cent.%0D %0D [quote]She was kind of fucked over because she couldn't legally sing her songs..%0D %0D Complete bullshit on both counts.

"a smart cookie"?! She's a songwriter, a successful songwriter, you moron. Did Dionne Warwick write "I Will Always Love You"? Could she have written any songs at all? It takes more than being a smart cookie to write a hit song. And Dionne's voice is strained when she's trying, not always successfully, to hit notes. I've always wondered why she was chosen to sing those great, great Bacharach David songs (sorry if I spelled Burt's name wrong). The songs were the hits - not Dionne's singing. And Karen Carpenter was known to be a lesbian. I knew a young woman who'd been offered the "companion" job for Karen Carpenter. She was told said companionship might well entail an intimate, romantic relationship. She turned down the job but I would imagine it would be easy to find another candidate in H'wood.

Bacharach met Warwick during a backup vocal session for the Drifters' song "Mexican Divorce".%0D %0D She has only written ONE song that she's recorded, and that's the Vandross-produced "Two Ships Passing in the Night".

"Mexican Divorce", the track she was discovered on.

Love sweet love...

This Girl's in Love with you (I love her version of this and HATE Herb Alpert's).

I'll Never Love This Way Again

Her voice was the perfect sultry match to the Burt Bacharach piano and farting-horns arrangements... turtlenecks and corduroy jackets, cigarillos and wine spritzers...

"Remember how we faced the world like two tramps shining?"

One of my faves by wackjob Warwick, but it's very hard to find on You Tube.As an added plus, this video features the jaw jutting out as mentioned upthread.

76 post and no mention of her relationship with Marlena This is a very young crowd.

"And Karen Carpenter was known to be a lesbian. I knew a young woman who'd been offered the "companion" job for Karen Carpenter. She was told said companionship might well entail an intimate, romantic relationship."

I call bullshit--proof, please. Carpenter's been RUMORED to be a lesbian, but not one woman she had an affair or sex with has come forward since she died in 1982. She had several relationships with men, coming close to marriage with at least one of them--her anorexia was the cause of her failed relationships, not repressed lesbianism.

R69. There isn't even a hint that Karen Carpenter was a lesbian in the recent biography. I don't know where you got that crazy idea.

I have all of Dionne's albums. The Bacharach albums are the best, but I have a soft spot for the Cole Porter album she recorded about 20 years ago. The arrangements are often cheesy, but her singing is glorious.

Saw her in Toronto (nearby casino, actually) the day that Luther Vandross died. A concert that should have been ordinary and routine turned out to be something very special. Dionne broke down a few bars into A House Is Not A Home, stopped singing and informed the audience what had not been publicly announced yet - that Vandross had passed away that afternoon. She then started again and did the most beautiful and heartfelt version of the song with tears running down her face the whole time. It was very moving.

[quote] farting-horns arrangements

Laughing...

I heard that Karen Carpenter was in a relationship with some girl called Any Rexia, or something like that

[quote]76 post and no mention of her relationship with Marlena This is a very young crowd.%0D %0D %0D %0D Tell os about it? Who is Marlena? And LMFAO@R83!!

When I was in college back in the 80s, two straight friends -- guys -- got me tickets to see Dionne Warwick in a nightclub. They even went with me, though they weren't fans by any stretch of the imagination. The three of us got seated at a table with two 6-ft. tall drag queens in glittery dresses with plunging necklines. It was hysterical.

I love her stuff. Her album, Hot! Live and Otherwise has a great medley of her Bacharach hits that goes on for 10 minutes or so.

I remember reading somewhere that the first singer who was offered the music to "Promises Promises" said, "How am I supposed to sing this?!?" Dionne picked it up and sang it straight through, perfectly, the first time.

Also remember her many appearances on 60s TV variety shows. My brother used to say she looked like a Dutch pig!

Saw her live in the early 80s, and, yeah, don't be late to her show! From the stage, she chastised some late arrivals -- in a good natured way, but you knew how she *really* felt...

Bacharach was having trouble getting the Bway cast of Promises Promises to sing on the beat - and the story goes that Warwick(e) was in New York so he asked her to come to the theater to teach the kids how it should have been done.%0D %0D (The jokes about her looks are about the same caliber as the ones about Michelle Obama's looks BTW)

I remember her being tied to French hottie, the crooner Sacha Distel.

My favorite Dionne song ever!

R88, her "Live in Paris" album with Distel is incredible, if you haven't checked it out!%0D %0D [quote]76 post and no mention of her relationship with Marlena This is a very young crowd.%0D %0D You are referring, of course, to Marlene Dietrich. She was good friends with her...and I don't know if they fooled around or not. But, Marlene was the one who flew her to Paris, and set her up in a concert with Distel in 1966. Dionne had just married Bill Elliot...so I doubt that she hooked up with either Dietrich or Distel.

The Promises, Promises stories flatter Warwick. She sings the songs in slower tempos than the Broadway performers, of course they were easier for her to sing.%0D %0D And Richard Chamberlain released Close To You in 1964. The Carpenters weren't given it by Bacharach.%0D %0D And Dee Dee Warwick's version of Alfie, despite a rather overblown arrangement, is the best imo.%0D %0D I find Dionne a little screechy and thin at the top of her range in the early Bacharach classics (Walk On By etc.). But she improved a lot by the late Sixties (compare the 1970 live version of Make It Easy On Yourself to the 1962 studio version).%0D %0D And this live track is stupendous.

I love this cover of Andy Gibb's "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Dionne.

R91, that's an interesting supposition. I always thought that her recording of Promises Promises was very fast.%0D %0D The Bway version was really faster?

It's got nothing to do with the speed of the recordings, it's the difficult and various time signatures she was used to from her years of working with BB.

r94%0D %0D Are you familiar with Knowing When To Leave? There's hardly room to breathe in the original Broadway tempo. Dionne had an easier job of it with her version.

God that Kristen Chenoweth version of Knowing When to Leave is awful. She's ok when she belts it out, but in the more talk-y parts she's so horribly nasal. Dusty and Dione are miles beyond her.

She's a big fan of the price is right.%0D %0D I hate hearing stories about stars asking for money for charity appearances; but the reality is that they're not these millionaire gods who don't need anything to keep things up and running.%0D %0D They've got BIG overhead (entourages don't come cheap.)%0D %0D I've learned not to try to have heroes or learn too much about anyone I might admire; invariably stories surface that make me sick.%0D

Yes, r95, but most Broadway types can sing FAST, it's the changes they had problems with. Just a quick glance at the musics shows that the title song itself has 3/4, 2/4, AND 4/4 time all kind of scrambled together.%0D %0D

Never a HUGE fan, but love her many classic songs. And she is a class act in concert. I do dig her mostly laid back, interpretive style, and the smoke in her voice. Been on a greatest hits jag the past few days, and I tell you, she is amazing on the remake of the Shirelles' "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" Its on her Luther-produced album, with the Shirelles singing backup. Like the best of Luther's own remakes, it's hardly recognizable, but he gets a performance out of her that kills.

So is she psychic, or was that just her friends?

She was just ok

No, she's never claimed to be a psychic. She was friends with Linda Goodman, Linda Georgian, and all the famous astrologers. She landed the gig as host of "Psychic Friends", and that killed her career big time. But the $$ she made during that period helped her purchase her house in Brazil.

Throughout my teen years I saved my allowances to purchase Dionne Warwick albums and I eventually owned them all. "Soulful" was one of my favorites altho the Bacharach/David albums were unsurpassed. Factoids: Dionne stuck by OJ after he murdered Ron & Nicole. She and her family almost died of carbon monoxide while at a vacation spot and I *think* it was crooner Vic Damone who saved their lives. I lost all respect for Dionne with her "Psychic Friends" escapades as well as the AIDS charity nastiness. On Celebrity Apprentice she actually makes Star Jones look attractive. They are both ugly Gargoyles, tho, to tell the truth. The way she treated Marlee Matlin spoke volumes about this woman. She's essentially an egomaniac on wheels. She used to have some humility and class once upon a time, or maybe it was just a good publicist. "Dionne Warwitch" absolutely fits.

.

Jenny Jones wrote in her autobiography that she opened for Dionne was a very disappointed.

She was a big fan, yet Dionne barely acknowledged her. Jenny wrote Dionne would be back stage waiting to be introduced, puffing away on a cigarette. When her name was called she would pass her drag to her assistant.

The minute she finished her set, she would exit the stage and the assistant would have a lighted cigarette waiting to Dionne to continue her puff.

That Dionne is a COLD bitch! Whitney learned from the master.

I'm so gay one of the first CDs I purchased in the 80s was Dionne Warwick's Barry Manilow-produced DIONNE, with "I'll Never Love This Way Again" and "Deja Vu." So gay...

The consensus seems to be that Warwick is a cunt, yes?

I believe the consensus is that she should be called Dionne Warwitch.

She's a cunt with dentures.

Does DD really have dentures? If so, could they not scale them down in mass so as to make Ms. Warwitch look a little less apple/picket fencish?

Who cares?

Perhaps some ordinary person who has been shat upon by DD, r112.

I honestly believe Dionne wasn't being a bitch to Matlin at all. She was trying to shoot down the very stupid idea developing about making the children's book all about sign language...when the audience is 5 year olds who are too young to appreciate that.%0D %0D Matlin kept ramping up her take that it's a good idea, when clearly her own ego was at stake.%0D %0D But at the end of the day Dionne was right, it's just too sophisticated a concept for a 5 year old.%0D %0D Some of you people seem to think that it's a personal attack on Matlin for 'being deaf'. It really isn't. Matlin took it personally, because that's clearly how she is...and it's stupid that some people take Matlin's side for that.

they're both huge bitches.

I'm more interested in her sister Dee Dee, who was only about 60 when she died.

DeeDee was mentally ill. Certifiably.

DeeDee was 63 when she died.

[quote] it's just too sophisticated a concept for a 5 year old.

And Dionne's opinion in such a matter is relevant because?

DW has not been relevant since the eighties. Dionne demands more from people than she herself can offer. Foolish pride, I think she sings it.

Dionne needs to get humble and clear that she is virtually irrelevant, lost her voice, and has no business making demands from people who've not been briefed (because she does not travel with a support system providing information or support for such demands).

Carry a straw in your purse, Dionne.

You are not that special, Dionne, and when you lash out psychotic at people they take note.

That is all.

r117%0D %0D Shit! Was it a lifelong thing or a later-in-life development?

That MISS Warwitch to you bitches! Now, where are my smokes?

[quote]it's just too sophisticated a concept for a 5 year old.%0D %0D [quote]And Dionne's opinion in such a matter is relevant because?%0D %0D Because she's a mother of two and also a grandmother. Duh.

Does Dionne have any professional experience with the hearing impaired, r122?

Thought not...

Grandparents are only experts in their particular chosen fields, r122.

Histrrionic much?

"Factoids: Dionne stuck by OJ after he murdered Ron & Nicole."

Hardly shocking. My only surprise: She wasn't there to sharpen the knife and kick Nicole's severed head across the courtyard while screaming "White bitch!"

Well, barring your misspelling of "histrionic," you don't have a point at all. For one, a grandmother would know what entertains their grandkids, objectively. For another, among Dionne's other charities, she participates in Starlight Children's Foundation for seriously ill children. I honestly don't think you can state that she isn't compassionate about children.%0D %0D But no, she has had no connection to deaf people.

Saw her in concert here in London about 2 years ago and she was terrific for a woman of her age - her leg was bad and she had trouble walking. Sister DeeDee was one of the backing singers, she died shortly afterwards.%0D %0D I liked Dionne's 67 album with the Valley of the Dolls theme, great song. She was good then, but seems a bit cantankerous now - maybe she has arthritis and needs the joints ... %0D %0D She was on tv here last week and didnt bother dressing up - looked like she was on her way to the supermarket in her old jeans and top.

Dionne made serious money once her lawsuit against Bacharach was settled in the mid-70's.%0D %0D Warner Brothers had signed her to a $3 million recording contract (huge in those days) after her hits at Specter and part of the deal was Bacharach and David would write and produce for her. The two had a disagreement and refused to work with one another, so she was left hanging and ended up suing them.%0D %0D The lawsuit was finally settled and they had to pay her $4 million and she received a cut of the publishing rights to all of her hits. Shortly after that, she signed with Arista and had major hits again in the 80s.%0D %0D The Psychic Friends Network gig really ruined her career, although she was making over $1 million a year from it. Once that novelty ended, she started losing money from bad investments and a lack of touring gigs.%0D %0D But she's not broke by any means.%0D %0D

Psychic Friends Network, Hearing Impaired, et al-

Dionne sticks her nose where it does not belong, where she has no knowledge; generally where she can scam A-list appropriations from non-profits (exempt PFN) so she can score a haircut, a straw, act like a diva, and draw some attention.

Just how much did Dionne cost Starlight Children's Fund? Are they still in the black?

$4mil-LOL!

Odd that she took part in this, though she's among Shelley Winters, Teri Garr etc.

Good listener.

R26, there's a big difference between being a neurotic monster with enormous gifts (Sinatra), a schizophrenic mess who recovers to create a second career (Clooney), and a limited talent perfect for a particular niche who also is a toxic, amoral bitch (Warwick).

Loves to listen.

r126 again - her London tv appearance last week was also involved with promoting some charity gig - wonder how much she was billing them for?

If she knows so much about 5 years old and what they can understand, why was her concept for the book deemed by the publisher to not be understandable to children?

Here I am, hussies, in my theatrical debut:

r131, I got your number, fag. And I'm coming for ya!

LOL r135!

[quote] Dionne is a waste of space and just complains she doesn't understand what she is supposed to do.

She was fantastic in Rent-a-Cop.

[quote] The negative publicity Psychic Friends engendered was especially unwelcome, coming as it did at a time when her charitable work was also the subject of public scrutiny. Dionne Warwick's commitment to democracy and good causes has never been in question. She is a friend of the poet Maya Angelou, and her role model was the late human- rights activist Ruth Jordan, the first black congresswoman to represent a Southern state. For Warwick - by contrast with the vacuous pronouncements of some of her fellow celebrities - charity work has been less an exercise in image enhancement, more a life mission.

[quote] But in 1993 the US network ABC aired a programme in which it was claimed that only $56,000 (pounds 35,000) of $2.1m (pounds 1.3m) raised by the Warwick Foundation had been presented to Aids charities. Dionne Warwick disputed these figures with some warmth, and delivered an emotional rebuttal of the allegations on The Geraldo Rivera Show.

"All I was trying to do was help people," she tells me. Advertisement

Just taking a flyer on this one, she doesn't strike me as a woman who would steal from the needy to line her own pockets.

"Please. That is the last thing I'd do."

"But do you think you might have been naive in terms of your organisational skills?"

"No. The fact is that if you don't have the expenses underwritten - the air fares, the hotel bills - where's that money going to come from? Ticket sales. What's left is what there is to give. It's very straightforward."

It can't help that some stars want first-class treatment even at a charity event.

"These are banal things," she says.

"Not when you're paying."

"Well if you're going to give your time - then make it comfortable for me, you know? Yeah, I want my limousine. And," says Warwick - who has somehow strayed from the initial point to a vehement inventory of her own travel preferences - "yes, I require - I require personally - a two- bedroom suite. I don't want anyone sitting next to me on the plane. I don't sit in a bulkhead seat. It has to be second row. Or the last row. It doesn't really matter."

"But never the front?"

"Don't ask me why. I just don't like it there."

"How do they cater for this in Southend?"

"I stay in London."

Any talk of Dionne Warwick and airline procedures invariably reawakens memories of that unhappy day in Florida, in May last year, when she was found in possession of a lipstick case containing what were described in the police statement as 11 "cannabis cigarettes". Somebody had placed these in her hand luggage and certain people, including the police, assumed it was her. The episode curiously echoed an incident involving her cousin Whitney Houston (who was never charged) in Hawaii, two years earlier.

Has the experience taught her anything?

"It taught me never to carry an open bag," she says. "What was found was not there when I packed it. It had to have happened between the time I put it on the belt and walked through security."

The previous two posts relate to the scandal r14 mentioned.

Is she a lesbun??

[quote] Is she a lesbun??

Well, she wouldn't be the first in the family.

From 1994

Famed singer Dionne Warwick recently denied allegations that she mishandled funds raised for AIDS awareness or used any of the money for personal gain.

She appeared on Geraldo Talk Show to tell her side of the story.

"They showed me in a very poor light, a very defamatory light. They put my credibility into question," she said.

She plans to sue "ABC News Day One" she recently revealed on the "Geraldo" talk show.

"I am going to sue them, I intend to sue them," she told talk show host Geraldo Rivera.

"If one person saw that shoddy piece of ridiculousness on "Day One," it was one too many," she said on "Geraldo." I've lost a couple of jobs because of it. I think I've gone through every range of emotion I'm supposed to have gone through, shock, anger, disappointment, disbelief, hurt."

[quote]She is extravagant, but also raised billions for AIDS charities at a time when Reagan was doing nothing. She became World Ambassador of Health. It is true that there were some instances of her demanding first class airfare to charity gigs. This it not cool.%0D %0D Billions? Come on, now.

I know she should sue the producers of the new musical "Baby, It's You" for even invoking her image in such an unholy mess. And whoever is playing her (thank God, very briefly) should be ashamed. She's clueless and, like the rest of the cast, without a shred of talent.

"I think that anyone watching this show can benefit from speaking to a psychic."

Dionne pulls a Judy, tossing the mic cord over her left shoulder.

This Girl's In Love With You

Dee Dee Warwick was really a talent in her own right - her voice was somewhere between Dionne's and Tina Turner's. If she'd had a few breaks, she could have been a bigger star.

She was the first to record "You're No Good" (more than a decade before Linda Ronstadt made it a big hit) as well as "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (ditto Diana Ross).

Her cover of "Suspicious Minds" is excellent:

Dee Dee sings Foolish Fool- love this!

Dee Dee has a sophisticated, complex voice. Dee Dee reminds me of Etta James more than TT.

This is fun, too.

Monday Monday

Dionne doing "Alfie?" Most wretched version I've ever heard. Don't even know why people keep saying her voice is so beautiful? Yuck. She always sounded like she had a cold.

Heartbreaker

You just needed to watch her nasty, trashy ass on The Apprentice to realize what an appalling person she is.

I don't generally watch television, do tell, did Warwick do a # on Apprentice?

I always thought she was classy - the Pyschic Friends shit really ruined her image. And now watching her on The Apprentice.

She was a one-trick pony with a very limited but distinctive voice who happened to be perfect for one particular part of the 1960s carnival. Everything after that has been stinkerville, living off the past and arrogance.

Her voice had no dexterity. She had a limited range. Her expressiveness was limited - she never pushed it or tried to grow. Her peculiar nasality was distinctive but reinforced her lack of capacity. But she fit her genre perfectly and had a great ride for seven years or so. Many great talents have limited instruments; Miss Warwick's limitations, however, were matched to limitations of vision, or spirit, or personality, or innate talent, if you will. She did what she did but it was very much a niche gift.

People here have exaggerated her charity work for AIDS. She didn't raise "billions." When the charity she supported - or which supported her - was questioned in a story by CBS, her response was to call them racist. Nice, Miss Warwick. While nothing criminal was done by the charity, the proportion of expenses going to administrative costs was extraordinarily high - this is the mark of a "bad" charity. Racist indeed, Miss Warwick.

After 14 years of issues with the IRS, she still owes more than $2 million in back taxes. That's not something that happens by accident. Perhaps the non-accident was the work of her accountants or advisors. But she's known about it for 14 years, so it's her issue. After all that time she hasn't been able to come up with $2 million?

She lives in Brazil. How nice for her. From what I've seen of her, and read of her antics with demanding perquisites for charity work, and observed in her recent TV appearances, how nice for us. Parabens! Miss Warwick.

So now what for Dionne?

She came off as a bitch and a half on CA, but... I still have tons of her records and listen to them frequently. Most people from my generation have no clue as to the terrific career she once had. They only know of Psychic Friends Network. Shame.

Dionne [italic]needs[/italic] a bump, bitches!

.

I got your number hussy!

I recently went to meet her at a book signing and she was a total cunt. The bookstore wrote out what she was to inscribe and she totally ignored it and just signed here name....when I asked if she could write it to my mother as the slip said, she looks down at me and said I already signed it....I said can you write it as written on the slip...she got all nasty with me and said "uhh....no" and dismissed me. I felt like throwing that piece of shit book at her head. Did not care for her after Celebrity Apprentice, but after meeting her in person.....forget it!!!!!

How much did Whitney pay Frankenberry to post this bullshit?

Michael K calls her the Hussynator LOL

Wow [R188]! No wonder that miserable bitch's career never really took off!

There was a big hue and cry at The Panache Report forums during the MJ memorial when Dionne and one of her sons were on CNN, and Dionne was claiming that Jacko used to call her "Mom". A lot of people said that she was lying. I also know that she had run-ins with BEBASHI in Philadelphia, once again, the issue of her spending was at the forefront. The matter disappeared as quickly as it appeared. I admire her singing talent and agree that she had a distinctive voice. Some say that she wanted Streisand's career, and was very bitter about not having a movie career like Babs. My mother saw her in Philly in the late 60s and said she was a bitch to fans who asked her to sing certain songs or asked for autographs. Mom said her teeth and nostrils were a helluva lot worse than they are today. But she always had a smoking bod. And all that smoking has totally ruined her voice and she even got into it with Patti when she did the TV special "Sisters in the Name of Love" with Patti and Gladys. Patti supposedly put her in her place.

One of my favorite Dionne moments was when she sang a cover of "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" by Starship. She was hosting "Solid Gold" at the time. It was funny how they tried to arrange the song to suit her voice, and what a massive failure it was. She was also bitter about being let go from that show and in an EBONY interview, let Marilyn McCoo have it, saying that she was more or less "subservient" and an "Uncle Tom" for being too ready to do what the white producers wanted her to do.

You can't make this shit up!

Dionne gets her claws into the Snookie/Jersey Shore for shilling.

Good luck with that DW.

R166 You...did...return the book for a refund, right?

I ain't signin' no crackerjack's book, ya dig? Now fly right, hussy, or I'll git your number!

I love her music, but tend to think the woman herself is batshit and a bitch. %0D %0D Still... her music is just perfect.

R170, are you sure about Warwick being bitter about not having Streisand's career? I thought it was Diane Ross who was reportedly obsessed with Streisand and desperately wanted to have a successful acting career just like Babs. LADY SINGS THE BLUES was meant to be Diane's FUNNY GIRL.

Dionne always said she wanted to have an Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy.%0D %0D She got a few Grammys...and that's it.%0D %0D But I don't recall, in any of her many interviews, that she ever expressed an intense jealousy for Streisand's film career. %0D %0D Dionne never wanted to emulate an established white person's career at all. After Bacharach/David split, she aligned herself almost exclusively with black entertainers, with the exception of Barry Manilow.%0D %0D Yes, IF you count her stint as World Health Ambassador, she can be credited with funneling BILLIONS to charities. No, not billions for AIDS charities specifically...but millions.%0D %0D I love her music, and she has managed to stay in the spotlight for 5 decades now. That's something pretty much no other entertainer has ever done. But yes, she is a stone cold bitch, and very ungrateful and entitled. I'm not really sure where it comes from. It really appears that most of her immediate family was very humble and sweet. She must have taken more after her Houston cousins. lol.

SHE never said it-SOME said it. Maybe she said it in private.

Aretha Franklin, on the other hand, did say in her book that she wanted to branch out into movies just like Diana Ross and Streisand. Of course 'Retha, being the bitch that she is, couldn't bring herself to actually admit that Ross and Streisand probably had some acting talent. Instead she attributed Ross' success to being a very hard worker and Streisand's to having very good publicists.

Dionne may be a bitch but Aretha can out-cunt any of the other bitch divas in entertainment. Compared to her Dionne is Gladys Knight.

r175 = Mary Wilson.

one of my favorite performances. it is difficult to sing with Patti because patti is only good when she belts.... she has little nuance to her voice. But Dionne keeps up here and with Knight they perform a number of great songs. scroll through the table scene....

Remember, these women are singing live....

R178, I've heard stories about Aretha's cuntiness. Jennifer Holliday told a story about meeting Aretha once and described how cold she was towards her. Aretha has some bitterness. There are still rumors about her father being the baby daddy of at least one of her sons, and that she divorced Glynn Turman after catching him fucking another man....YMMV. But she's an angry bitch. That is why she eats. She stuffs her feelings with food I think.

r176%0D %0D Jerry Ragovoy?%0D %0D [quote] she has managed to stay in the spotlight for 5 decades now. That's something pretty much no other entertainer has ever done.%0D %0D Plenty have done it: Cher, Aretha, Diana Ross, Barbara Streisand etc.

R181, the rumor I heard about Aretha was that she allegedly walked in on Turman fucking her son. I believe this is the same son who is allegedly also her brother.

Any other gay rumors about GT, r183? He was kind of hot BITD.

[R173] LMFAO!!!

Sorry, R184, that's the only rumor I've ever heard about Turman being gay or bi. The only other thing I've heard about that business is that Aretha's son was the one who introduced her to Turman in the first place.

R181 here, R183. Are you SERIOUS? THAT is some twisted shit!! No wonder she looks like her recording studio is in The Old Country Buffet.

Thanks for awesome gossip, r186!

R187, that's what I heard. Apparently the son who was allegedly caught in bed with GT is in an asylum now. If either of the really horrible rumors about Aretha is true, I'm not surprised at all that she has serious trust issues and can be a raging bitch to people. I'd be too if I were in her shoes and had to go through that. Well, that and the alleged abandonment by her mother at a young age, a charge that Aretha rejects as being completely untrue.

I adore Warwitch's music from the 60's and 70's, but when I saw her hateful and condescending treatment of Marlee Matlin on "Celebrity Apprentice" I knew she was an evil bitch.

Dionne sings "We Built This City"--too awful not to post:

Dionne is an amateur. Any real professional would have sung the radio deejay part:

I'm looking out over that Golden Gate Bridge

Out on another gorgeous sunny Saturday

Not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic

What's your favorite radio station in your favorite radio city

The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps

This song does not suit her AT ALL. It's not that great of a song anyway.

Patti needs to bring back the weave hats.

[quote]She has such a beautiful voice%0D %0D No. I doubt you've ever heard her real voice. It has always been electronically enhanced.

r195,

[quote]Plenty have done it: Cher, Aretha, Diana Ross, Barbara Streisand etc.%0D %0D Each of these women started their careers AFTER Dionne did.

This girl's in love with you; up-thread link does not work so I thought I'd repost. My favorite, D's mature voice.

Aretha's career started at least at the same time as Dionne's, if not before.

Aretha could beat Dionne in a pie eating contest any day.

R191 What a mess! The audience is just standing there like "WTF?"! %0D %0D That was one of Dionne's biggest problems (besides her shitty attitude) - she was always covering other people's songs instead of trying to make her own. She didn't really do anything memorable.

[quote]She didn't really do anything memorable.

Gurl, please. I agree D's a bitch, but to infer she did "nothing memorable" is insane.

[quote]she was always covering other people's songs instead of trying to make her own. %0D %0D The context of her singing "We Built This City" and other hits by others is that Solid Gold had a weekly tradition where the host sings selections from the Top 10 songs of that week.%0D %0D She very rarely covered other people's songs. Most of her canon of music was written FOR her voice, dumbass.

Ugly, racist bitch who hates white people.%0D She also uses 'charities' the way Bishop Eddie Long uses 'church'.%0D %0D Personally, her voice is horrible, but I guess it was a symbol of her time, as that era didn't have much to offer culture in arts.

There's a great Bacharach/David song of hers called "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" from about 1965. Took me years to find it. An absolute bitch to sing.

[R203] Dionne, is that you girl?%0D %0D YOU need to do your research because some of her biggest Top 40 hits were covers of songs that other people had already done previously including: %0D %0D Reach Out For Me, I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, Alfie, This Girl's in Love with You, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', I'll Never Fall in Love Again, and Make It Easy on Yourself.%0D %0D %0D

R206, most of those songs you listed were written for her, even if someone else got to them before her. Sorry you don't believe that.

[quote]But I don't recall, in any of her many interviews, that she ever expressed an intense jealousy for Streisand's film career.

Dionne said in one of those VHI specials listing the top female vocalists of all time that she thought Streisand was the gold standard for female vocalists, and wished that she could reach inside Barbra's throat and steal her vocal chords.

Love both of my African-American Divas Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin!

Apart from singing rock in a cocktail dress, what's wrong with r191 's link? She sings better than 90% of the AI crap that passes for singers today!

I had a friend who was backstage at the Newport Jazz Festival back in the 60s when she appeared and he said that she was a big pot head and a lesbian. That was a shocking to me at the time as when I found out that Linda Evans was a big lez.

Linda Evans? I should have known with those big shoulders.

HOW does a thread about Dionne Warwick go to 212 replies????

The rumor was that Linda and Barbara Stanwyck were comparing Big Valleys on the set of the show of the same name.

I have no idea, R213, but I'm thrilled.

Unlike many people here, I don't need my musical heroes to be saints in real life.

Bitch or not, she's one bitchen singer.

[quote]HOW does a thread about Dionne Warwick go to 212 replies????

Why is it so surprising? Dont try it hussy.

Where's my thread, bitches? Miss Dionne ain't all that! I'm sure she and Gladys are frustrated by their career disappointments, so I'll pray for them.

R215, aren't you the one who doesn't want Dionne to be labeled lesbian? Because it's the worst thing that could be said of her?

It will come when you die, Aretha and will definitely surpass 219 posts, so relax gurl, and take care. This is *my* moment!

You a liar, baby! Now step right or step off!

R219, no that's not me. Take your shit stirring elsewhere.

This isn't very nice...

Isn't she great!?

She should have won an Oscar for her part in Rent-A-Cop

"Let Me Go To Him" is amazing!

Dionne is a lesbian!

Years ago , think it was the HG network, there was a series of shows, with celebs appearing, to show their own decorating ideas . Dionne was on it with some blonde gay guy, saying he was her new partner , in a decorating business, in Palm Springs.They were talking from a condo, in Palm Desert, they had both decorated, and she said they 'co owned' . It was truly awful - looked like a rental, done in 'southwest' style ( my least favorite look) . Never heard anything else about him, that ugly condo, or her business. Anyone have the clip of that ? Was probably at least 10 years ago.

Speaking of Dionne's homes, many years ago , I used to jog through Beverly Hills, and down Sunset Blvd. One day , I was jogging by a corner, think it was Alta ,or Maple, and saw Dionne , watering her plants , outside her front door.It was a really lovely old -Hollywood type mansion. She waved as I ran by, and seemed friendly . Months later, I saw that house was for sale, and there was an open house . So a friend , and I, went in - all the agent said was that it was a 'celebrity owned' property . Here's the bizarre thing - all Dionne's clothes , her gowns, shoes , even her dressing table , with various perfumes,& make-up, were still there. House was beautiful, with huge pool, and tennis court. Soon after , I found out the house had been seized , for back taxes owed. Either she hadn't taken her personal items out yet , or they just threw her out , without her belongings, which were part of the home , and it's contents. This was around the time the was having big tax problems, but now I see she owes a couple million to the IRS Again ! She now lives in a small home, in an unfashionable area of L.A.How do people live this way ?

It's called spending more than you have, and not paying your taxes / property taxes. Took Red Foxx' house away, in Vegas, Willy Nelson lost almost everything. Nothing new to entertainers. The IRS doesn't fool around.

I heard today Chris Tucker now owes over $ 12,000,000 in taxes? What the he'll ? He had 1 hit movie years ago. And it's always that they literally did not file returns - not that they cheated, but they didn't even file, year, after year. Is it greed, or are they really that stupid ?

It's stupidity . Look where Wesley Snipes is now - jail. He thought he could claim that old stand by, taxes are illegal. Tucker will end up the same.

"And now.... Aretha Franklin......................................OK ...Re isn't here...........next we'll hear from CeCe Winans"

But she did a show the night before Whit's Service, and the night of. How sick was she really. Word is, no pay Retha - no show Retha. Even for her Godchild. Retha's known not to pay her bills . ask the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Or ANY hotel .

I loves me some Dionne, and Aretha......as performers. But it's well established that neither has a history of paying their bills . Always the excuse of business manager , or CPA , fouled things up. For people like them, who've earned that much money- there is no excuse. Now step aside hussy.

Come see me in Atlantic City if you all love me so much. Pay up.

Because love without money is what separates the sluts from the pros in MY family. And you don't hear nothin' about the sluts, do ya?

[quote] "I think what we're doing right now is the last time I'm gonna be doing this about Whitney. Whitney needs to be let go, she needs to rest and we all need to give her that solace."

That 20/20 report was SCATHING.

My mom met Aretha back in the 60s when she came to Philly to perform, through a friend of my mom's who knew Aretha through the church. The venue, now demolished, was up the street from Retha's fave BBQ joint in North Philly, and she invited my mom & her friend up to her hotel suite at the Bellevue Stratford, then sent one of her people to the rib joint and got enough food to feed ten people - and there were only five there. Guess who ate most of it??

HONGRAY!!!!

240! lol

It really doesn't get any better than this.

ALCOHOLIC!!

Her last halfway decent commercial album was "Friends", and even that was mostly filler.

Sorry, but the other Dionne thread smokes this one and puts it to shaaaaaame.

I always wondered why she lived in Brazil. Does she love Brazilian dicks as much as I do?

She's a mean evil bitch.

R246 It's closer to Peru, which she's slowly snorting up her nostrils.

She is a complete C U Next Tuesday. Catch my drift?

Saw her live back in the late 80's. Her voice was amazing. But her stage persona was something else. Maybe she thought that she was being witty and clever. She came across as extremely egotistical and was downright nasty to some of the audience. Don Rickles projects more warmth and charm than Dionne.

I'd have let Burt put the head in.

BUMP

Anyone see the Dionne Warwick tribute at the Soul Train Awards? Then she got an award. Candice Glover, Ruben Studdard, Gladys Knight and Eric Benet did a great job singing her songs. The others were ok.

I'm not sure Dionne liked Chrisette Michelle's renditions lol she wasn't smiling during those parts.

She really let herself go, how sad. Dionne used to be quite pretty.

[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]

Bump

I'd share, but the venomous cunts at your little site have become most impossible. Thank heavens I shall survive them and their unfortunate demises. Nippy's in training.

Me and the cockroaches, baby.

And I DO know what it's all about, Alfie.

Me.

I know this thread is ancient, but what the hell's with that person who whenever he/she posted, there was this %0D %0D crap interspersed throughout the posts.

What the hell is "%0D %0D"???

She threw a benefits for AID back in the early days and kept 90% of it for herself. Not an exhilaration, they tracked her down in Brazil and she just kept trying to show the door and pretend they didn't exist. Ever since I saw that with my own eyes, she was done.

You forgot the "e"

Wow, Dionne is a lesbian? Thinking back to end years on Solid Gold that haircut screamed disel dyke with its nutch frontal flap. I loved hearing on Solid Gold she called out Tanya Tucker the country singer as s slut. She refused to allow the bimbp on her show. This showed impeccable taste. My mom taught me to nevet trust lesbians, but, I would give DE the trust card. They say lgbt runs on families. Dionne and Whitney, makes sense. How it must have killed Whitney to have to sing of him ot he when she learned for she or her. Dionne I am sure can do all things lesbian in that other world of Brazil. Can't sex be boight for 5 dollars per trick performed.

Vintage gossip: “Warwick, Dionne. Pot smoker. Lesbian; linked with Marlene Dietrich.“

[quote] She threw a benefits for AID back in the early days and kept 90% of it for herself. Not an exhilaration, they tracked her down in Brazil and she just kept trying to show the door and pretend they didn't exist. Ever since I saw that with my own eyes, she was done.

Warwick's foundation, just like her personal fortune was mismanaged not by her but by her managers.

[quote] In 1993, Forrest Sawyer, host of the ABC News/Entertainment program Day One, alleged financial improprieties by the Warwick Foundation, founded in 1989 to benefit AIDS patients, and particularly Warwick's charity concert performances organized to benefit the organization. ABC alleged the Foundation was operating at a near 90% administrative cost. ABC alleged that Warwick flew first class and was accommodated at first-class hotels for charity concerts and events in which she participated for the Foundation. Warwick, who had no executive, administrative, or management role in the organization, challenged ABC to investigate the foundation further and alleged that the ABC report was racially motivated. An Internal Revenue Service investigation of the Warwick Foundation found no wrongdoing or criminal activity on the part of the Board of Directors or Warwick, and its status as a non-profit charity was upheld. ABC maintained the report to be factually correct, but the item has not been repeated since the original air date. The foundation was later dissolved.