Smokey Robinson Remembers 12 months-Lengthy Affair With Diana Ross Throughout His Marriage to Claudette Rogers – E! On-line

The “Cruisin'” artist and Rogers, each members of The Miracles, had been married for 27 years from 1959 to 1986. Robinson is now married to inside designer Frances Glandney, who he wed in 2002. As for Ross, she was married to music govt Robert Ellis Silberstein from 1971 to 1977. In 1986, the “I am Coming Out” artist wed Norwegian businessman Arne Naess, Jr. in Switzerland. They divorced in 2000, and he died in a climbing accident in 2004.

Robinson, 83, and Ross, 79, first met once they had been children. In keeping with The Guardian, she moved onto his road in Detroit, Michigan, when he was 10. They usually weren’t the one music icons within the neighborhood as Aretha Franklin—who died in 2018—additionally lived close by.

Nevertheless, Robinson famous within the interview that he and the Queen of Soul had been by no means a pair.

“No, simply mates. I do admit once I was about 15 I had a crush on her,” he stated, later including. “Hehehe! Yeah, she was fantastic!”