I'm sure I'm wasting my breath by asking you to source this, so I'll skip that part and go directly to calling bullshit on the claim. Whether you made it up or Gordy actually said it, it's ridiculous. Firstly, I'm not trusting the mouth of the man that screwed so many artists out of their money. He's the last one I'm going to trust to tell me he lost money on any artist, let alone one as huge as Diana Ross. Maybe he lost it gambling, but he didn't lose it on her. [[Maybe he lost some with The Wiz, I'll give him that.) The premise of the "Gordy didn't make any money off of Diana Ross' career" hinges on someone believing that Gordy was basically paying for Diana Ross to parade around the globe and getting nothing in return. If Diana's tours weren't making money, those shows would've never been as big and grand as they were. The money that was put into those shows were recouped and then some. Even Berry Gordy isn't such an idiot businessman that he would put 10,000 dollars into a show only to get back 1,000 dollars and then turn around and do it every year for four or five years. The only reason why those shows were so big and costly is because Gordy knew he'd get back a return on his investment, which he did. Had he not, those shows would've been scaled back to the pre-1976 level. And you better believe that when an artist isn't a true moneymaker, people in the business know it. RCA knew it, that's why they paid the lady all those millions. And when she eventually fell on her face and went back to Motown, Motown knew she wasn't worth what she used to be worth and they paid her that way. Gordy didn't do anything for anybody at Motown unless his bank statement amounts increased.
I swear sometimes the stuff I read around here leads me to believe that folks expect everybody to be idiots. I'm too smart to fall for this nonsense. Gordy didn't make any money off of Diana Ross, my ass.
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