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Theodore Richard White (March 25, 1931 – October 26, 2020) was an American businessman, songwriter, music manager and producer from Detroit, Michigan. [1] White was the manager and first husband of soul singer Aretha Franklin.
- Franklin’s Inner Circle Was Skeptical of White from The Start
- They Married Six Months After Meeting
- There Were Several Alleged Experiences That Hinted at Trouble in Their Marriage
Not long after releasing her first album in 1961, Franklin met White at a Detroit Club called 20 Grand. Her sister Erma knew him and “she also told me he considered me among the most beautiful women in the world,” Franklin wrote in her memoir From These Roots. That seemed to be the kind of attention Franklin craved. “She fooled around and got with ...
While Franklin was still a teen when she met White, she was also a mother of two,having given birth to her first son Clarence when she was 12 and Edward when she was 14. Her family always had her back, with Franklin saying her dad “was not judgmental, narrow or scolding” about her youthful pregnancies. “In my fifth or sixth month, I dropped out of ...
While Franklin herself never directly addressed the dark side of the relationship, one of the first signs of trouble emerged in a 1968 Time story that said White had “roughed her up in public at Atlanta’s Regency Hyatt House Hotel.” While there weren’t further details, it did go on to say: “It was not the first such incident.” The story described W...
4. Juni 2021 · Ted White was a businessman and a former promoter who married Aretha Franklin in 1961 and managed her career for the majority of the 1960s. He met her at a club in Detroit and had a son with her, but they divorced in 1969. He is now aged 90 and has been seeking a cut of her estate.
19. Aug. 2018 · In Muscle Shoals in 1967, the Queen of Soul recorded her first hit – despite swirling clouds of drink, jealousy and masculine competition. David Taylor. Sun 19 Aug 2018 02.00 EDT. It was the...
15. Aug. 2018 · Over the course of her life, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has been married twice. Her first marriage to Theodore “Ted” White lasted eight years. It began when Franklin was just 19 years ...
31. März 2021 · Aretha was married to Ted White in 1961, when the singer was 19. Per David Ritz’s Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin, they first met in 1954 at a party, and White had a reputation as something of a smooth operator. “I knew Ted White, as did most entertainers in Detroit,” Aretha's sister, the late singer Erma Franklin, said in the book.
16. Aug. 2018 · Franklin and White had one son, Ted “Teddy” White Jr., in 1964. After playing backup guitar for his mom for years, he broke out on his own as a singer-songwriter, going by the name Teddy...
