The Supremes: A Saga Of Motown Dreams, Success, And Betrayal - Plot & Excerpts
If she left, Motown was prepared to “settle up” at $2,500 a year for six years against future royalties of her old Supremes records. While Flo may not have known how much all those hits brought in each year, $2,500 sounded more like a weekly cut, just from radio plays alone. As for what was being held by Gordy in escrow, much of her fortune from ten No. 1 hits, Roshkind said nothing. As intimidated as she was, Flo could see through the muddle of Gordy having fired her from the Supremes only to turn around and want to extend her service. What he really had in mind, she reckoned, was to keep her out of the way and quiet, “or else.” Roshkind actually had the nerve, or gall, to tell her that if she didn’t re-up with Motown, “Berry won’t have anything to do with you.” “Do with me?” she replied with a rising laugh. “I don’t care if I ever see that man again!” Still, she was bullied enough to agree, and walked out of the room shaking and in tears, with nothing in her hand but a carbon copy of the royalty agreement that would net her a paltry fifteen grand.
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