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This sad, murky episode is the latest act in Carey's diva drama. Act I may have been her 1998 divorce from Tommy Mottola, boss of Sony Music and the man who helped make Carey a star. (She later signed a deal with Virgin that brings her $23.5 million an album.) The split was bitter, and Carey came to suspect that Mottola was trying to defame her--to make Mariah a pariah. Earlier this summer she hired Jack Palladino, a San Francisco-based private eye who worked for Bill Clinton in the Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider...
...catfight (though not, as reported, a fistfight) with Mira Sorvino on the set of her next film, Wise Girls. She looked frazzled and spent on a BET interview show. She stripped down to a sports bra on MTV's Total Request Live. At a mall appearance in Westbury, N.Y., Carey rambled about "positivity" until Berger grabbed the microphone from her; the mike went back and forth, and, Berger says, "I won." This led to an intense chat between star and flack. "She was upset," Berger explains. "I did not want her to air her frustrations publicly on camera. Never...
...post-Mottola career, Carey does most of the creative work herself, including the lyric writing and producing. A reluctance to delegate and a crushing travel schedule put more pressure on her. For several years, a Sony executive notes, Carey has had problems sleeping. A close friend was "not surprised at all" by the breakdown. "She works ridiculously hard." Since she became a star at the age of 19 in 1990, she has made nine albums, in contrast to three by Whitney Houston...
Maintaining fame is a full-time job, and Carey is not a teenager anymore. In 1990 the Britneys and Christinas were in elementary school. If she was looking anxiously for any signs of mid-career slippage, she found it in the weak air play of Loverboy, the first single off her Glitter album. The star's friend said Carey was "extremely concerned" that the song languished in the mid-60s of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Finally Loverboy ascended to No. 2, beneath today's hotties a trois, Destiny's Child. Carey could get trampled by the children's crusade...
...Glitter album, amid all the techno-pop, the coloratura vamps and intricate layers of vocals, a few songs stand out as cries from a pensive soul. In Twister, a tribute to her stylist Tonjua Twist, a suicide, Carey paints what could also be a self-portrait: "She was kind of fragile/And she had a lot to grapple with/But basically she kept it all inside.../Dear God, it's all so tragic/And I'll never have the chance to feel the closure/That I ultimately need." Carey then soars into a passage that might be a request or a requiem: "Lord...