Although he focused so much attention on me throughout my career, I had never felt that he was serious about me as a woman or a prospective wife. I wasn’t even really his girlfriend, at least he never called me that, but he used whatever he could find to keep me under his wing.
Berry was a real ladies’ man. He always had a lot of girlfriends hanging around; they knew he had the power to help them with their careers. Along with his personal magnetism there was something else about him that made him irresistible to women. Mary used to warn me about him, but I was too headstrong and wouldn’t listen.
Diana Ross on Berry Gordy
