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Baby Boomer to Millennial:

BABY BOOMER:

Kim Basinger: December 3, 1953

Sheila E.: December 11, 1956

Denise Matthews: January 4, 1959

Kim Upsher: March 28, 1959 (One website assumed)

Patricia Kotero: August 2, 1959

Jill Jones: July 11, 1962

Cat Glover: July 24, 1963

Devin Devasquez: June 25, 1963

Susan Moonsie: January 21, 1964

Susannah Melvoin: January 26, 1964

Troy Beyer: November 7, 1964

Ingrid Chavez: January 21, 1965

GEN X:

Robin Power: March 8, 1966, (1972) (Robin claimed that she was 17 when she met Prince in late October 1989, at 23 years old. She would put her zodiac sign as Pisces on Instagram.).

Anna Garcia: December 31, 1968 (possibly of Anna lied about her birthdate when telling the story of how her birthday doesn't line up with December. She did Playboy in 1988, so she was NOT 15!!).

Mayte Garcia: January 23, 1968 (estimated guess. She lied about EVERYTHING!!!).

Tara Patrick "Carmen": April 20, 1972

Manuela Testolini: September 19, 1974

MILLENNIAL:

Judith Hill: May 6, 1984

Andy Allo: 1989

DaniLeigh: December 20, 1994

Lala Escarzega: December 15, 1995 (1998) (If only true. She typed 21 on Instagram in 2019, she wasn't that young back in 2012/2013 at 14 and 15 years old in the Extralovable music video. She had to be 17 or 18 which means 1995 or 1996.)

Desray Junca is unknown. She's either Baby Bob or Gen X.

The only youngest Prince dated were Susan and Susannah.

Susan was 16 in 1980 (22 & 16)

Today, an article was posted on soulhead.com that embeds a video of an 8 year old Mayte Garcia performing on That’s Incredible with a date listed as “circa 1981.” Although she said in her book her mother did tell people she was older in order for her to perform at certain venues and take classes reserved for older dancers, being 8 years old when she made that appearance is one of the few things Mayte has been consistent about over the years, the fact that she made an appearance on that show as the “youngest professional belly dancer” is one fact she doesn’t falter on nor does she alter.  As of this writing, it is still reported as such on her personal website and on video in her introduction for Hollywood Exes.  She also reiterates as much in her book.

This is where the rubber meets the road and we have some questions.  Mayte has given a birth date of November 12, 1973. According to the aforementioned article, she was 8 in 1981. Looking at IMDB for That’s Incredible, her performance on that show would have aired between May and August, if the year 1981 is correct.  That means that Mayte would have turned 9 in November of 1981 if she was 8 when the show aired, thus making her birth year 1972 as opposed to 1973.  But that isn’t the big reveal.

If Mayte was 8 in 1981 when the show aired and turned 9 on November 12 of that same year, then in the summer 1990 when she supposedly met Prince, Mayte would have been a 17 year old high school grad going on 18 and not a 16 high school student.  This also means that when she moved to Minnesota and began working with him, she was of legal age and did not need a guardian as she claims in her book.  Further, every interaction between them she describes occurred when she was of age and considered a legal adult.

As a result of the claims regarding Mayte’s age in her memoir and over the years, reaction from fans and non-fans alike has been varied.  However, there remains a very negative undercurrent where people have likened Prince’s relationship to that of R. Kelly and Aaliyah, and Elvis Presley and Priscilla. However, this new article changes all of that and we have to start looking more critically at all the claims made in her memoir.