Ray Charles’ mistress confesses robbing the singer to pay-off house
Mari Soto described in the tome that she had once substituted $1 bills for $100 notes from the cash she brought home from a concert.
The former mistress of singer Ray Charles, Marci Soto has admitted that she had once robbed the great singer blind and used the money to pay off her house.
'I felt like he was ready to do something he should have done years earlier, pay off my house,' Marci Soto was quoted as saying by Aceshowbiz.
Soto made her revelation in her new book called, “Ray & Me”. She described in the tome that she had once substituted $1 bills for $100 notes from the cash she brought home from a concert.
"I certainly didn't feel like I was robbing the blind. I felt like he was ready to do something he should have done years earlier, pay off my house."
In the same book Soto claimed that she began her steamy affair with the baritone singer when both were still married to different people.
She recounted how she as a big fan, convinced Charles’ manager to get her a date with him, adding that her affair with the singer was on and off but stayed since 1968 until they separated in 1997.
Throughout their years together, Soto admitted having Charles’ baby but clarified he did not tell him about it and decided to have the baby aborted instead.
She said, "I didn't even tell Ray, there was no reason to know. I definitely wasn't having a baby."
Soto explained that they broke up in 1997 because she could no longer take Charles’ love for women.
Charles’ alleged mistress said she last spoke with the music legend when he got sick until his death in 2004.
Soto recalled talking to him by the phone, noting that much of their conversation was spent crying.
Ray Charles is regarded as the master of sounds. He died of liver cancer at his home in Beverly Hills, California on June 10, 2004. He was 73.
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