Prince Gets A Divorce From Woman Formally Known As Wife

Good news ladies! Prince, everyone's favourite tiny funky pervy purple polymath sex goblin who likes to write the word 'Slave' all over his face, is back on the market - he's about to divorce his wife Manuela Testolini Nelson.

Prince and Manuela Testolini Nelson are to divorce after five years of marriage. It's thought that Prince is going to celebrate his divorce by following the advice of one of songs and partying like it's 1999. Prince will accomplish this by riding a microscooter to the shops to buy some of that new Red Bull drink and then going to watch The Phantom Menace at the the cinema.

It's impossible to dislike Prince, especially if - like us - you're fond of bewilderingly enigmatic Jehovah's Witness midgets who people still only like so long as he plays Purple Rain at awards ceremonies a lot. Seriously, everyone loves Prince. The Internet loves Prince and vegetarians love Prince and Carlos Boozer… well, Carlos Boozer doesn't love Prince so much, but that's only because Prince painted one of his houses purple. But everyone else loves Prince. Oh, except for Prince's wife - the two of them are getting a divorce.

Alan Eidsness, a lawyer representing Prince, has confirmed that Prince and his wife Manuela Testolini Nelson filed divorce papers in a sealed document at Minnesota's Hennepin County District Court back in May, but word has only just got out now. Prince and Manuela Testolini Nelson met when she took a job at Prince's charity. From then on it was all traditional stuff, you know the sort of thing - super top secret Jehovah's Witness wedding, blistering public silence about any kind of relationships at all, maybe the odd evening in writing 'Slave' all over each other's faces and listening to Purple Rain.

And then, five years later, it's suddenly ended in divorce for Prince and Manuela. It's thought that Manuela Testolini Nelson - the president of Gamillah, Inc, a company that makes candles and stuff - was the one who initiated the divorce proceedings. It's the second divorce for Prince, who ended things with his first wife Mayte Garcia in 1998 after two years of marriage.

Of course, Prince being Prince, the secrets of the divorce will probably never reveal themselves. Although, having said that, there is a bit of a trend for divorces to go devastatingly public at the moment, but we don't think Prince would do that. Not unless Sly And The Family Stone did it 20 years before so he could copy them, anyway.

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Prince, Wife Are Divorcing - People

[story by Stuart Heritage]