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Sky Magazine.......New year
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Diamond And
Pearl
Magazine writers and TV presenters the world over have only had one
question for Lorl Elle (Diamond) and Robla LaMorte (Pearl) since they appeared In Prince's
Gett Off and Cream videos: to what extent did the dancers and Hls Royal Brllllance
mix business with pleasure? Robla slps some coffee, lights a cigarette, rolls her eyes and
sighs before replying."Did you sleep with him? Are you guys doing It? Are you
poking?" she says huskily. Lorl and Robla both live In LA, where they met several
years ago working on an ad for Japanese TV. When auditions started for Cream and Gett Off,
Prince, who had decided he wanted twins for the project, saw the two lookallke brunettes
and Immediately snapped them up. Robia is 21 and is clearly the more earthy of the pair.
She admits she was a little nervous when she first met Prince "I wasn't as
loud and obnoxious as I usually am" and refutes allegations of exploitation In
the Prince videos. "I wasnt some bimbo shaking my ass. I never wanted to go
topless because the whole crew would have seen. In the end I wore a lace top and some
really big, thick granny underwear." Lori, who reluctantly admits to being "a
little older than Robla", Is the more demure and little-girl-Ish of the two and Is
currently working on the script for a play... and even breaks off during the interview to
recite some poetry shes written. "For the passion, would you die for me? For
the passion, a tear In my eye, Ive never shared It with anyone
befog," she says. "Why me?" I think. The girls are currently recording
their own debut single and will also be featured In promos for Thunder and Strollln,
future singles from the blamonds And Pearls album. But arethe characters purely
fictional? "Not totally, no," says Lorl, her false eyelashes fluttering wildly.
"Like Diamond, I go from one extreme to the other. One minute Im like
sforty-year-old woman, the next Im a five-year-old kid. Im pretty hard on
myself mostly. Prince calls me Little Miss Critic." Like Robia, Lorl denies any
carnal knowledge of her boss. "There were moments when he was slttlng five feet
away and it was like, woohl The energy was so intense and sexual and loving t But I didn't
want to act on It and Just be one of

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