Avert The Eyes

It should be no secret that Diana Ross a handful behind the scenes, but a new bio by J. Randy Taraborrelli (who must have written a million bios on Diana) reveals new details od her emotional outbursts and diva demands. The NY Daily News reports:

Those around Ross were routinely asked to avoid eye contact with the diva. "Avert the eyes" soon became a catch phrase to announce Diana's arrival, Taraborelli claims.
Ross often demanded that her concert dressing rooms be redone for her arrival. "She asked that it be made to look like a star's dressing room," recalls one venue manager forced to repaint and recarpet.

Once, Ross reportedly clubbed an airline worker with a hat box, presumably unaware that the box contained a small dog.

But it was personal assistant Michael Browne who hefted the heaviest load of Ross' whims, Taraborelli says.

He put up with her then-9-year-old daughter, Tracee, who was known for carrying a notebook and pencil everywhere she went. If she saw one of Ross' functionaries doing something she thought was wrong, she would quickly jot it down and later report it to her mother, says the author.

Yikes....that Tracee was a brat...oh wel...