At least one person doesn’t believe Richard Pryor slept with Marlon Brando: the comedy legend’s daughter Rain.
Rumors of an intimate relationship between the comedian and the screen icon proliferated after Quincy Jones talked about the dalliance in his ultra-revealing Vulture interview, noting of Brando, “He was the most charming motherf—ker you ever met. He’d f—k anything. Anything! He’d f—k a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
Then Pryor’s widow Jennifer Lee confirmed the tale, much to Rain’s chagrin.
“Daddy did NOT have relations with Brando. There were no trips to his South Pacific Oasis, no flowers or love notes between. Not even a film role. Why this sudden need to drag Daddy through the Hollywood mud? I find it tasteless and infuriating,” Rain, 48, wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
She continued, “My dad was very open with his life, so much so that news of his relationship with a trans woman in the early 70s and 80s wasn’t really newsworthy nor notable. As a child I knew her, not as the trans person in our home, but the lady whom everyone accepted. So much acceptance I did not know she was Trans until recently.”
She added of Jones and Lee, “Q was once a brilliant music producer who is losing his mind, and decided to garner publicity for himself with a sensationalized interview … he spewed out a lie about my father who’s not here to defend himself. Then on top of it all, my dad’s so called widow validated it, because she needs to keep legitimizing herself and tarnish our dad even after he’s dead. She hated Q and Daddy.”