– Will on November 15 re-release her phenomenally successful album ?The Emancipation Of Mimi? with four new tracks. (October 17, 2005)
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– Is said to be planning to move to England as she has instructed three top estate agents to find the perfect country pad for her by next year. (September 19, 2005)
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– Was romantically linked to newly single star Eddie Murphy, after the pair were spotted together at a top Miami, Florida nightclub. (August 31, 2005)
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– Is reportedly furious with Eminem for playing intimate phone messages she left him to huge audiences during his Anger Management tour. (August 18, 2005)
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– Claims she was so miserable in her marriage to music mogul Tommy Mottola, she often fantasised about being kidnapped so she could get out of the relationship.
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– Accidentally flashed her breasts at stunned fans during a TV show in Germany when her dress fell apart. She was saved from further shame when floor managers cut the lights to allow her to go backstage and change out of the dress. (July 14, 2005)
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– Claims she has slept with less than five men in her whole life. (June 20, 2005)
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– Wanted to duet with British pop star George Michael to perform with her at Live 8. (June 17, 2005)
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– Her single 'We Belong Together' has recorded the best-ever one day listener figure after it registered with 31.2 million listeners on American radio in a single day. (June 14, 2005)
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– Is the most popular female artist in the history of the American charts after scoring her 16th number one. (May 27, 2005)
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– Is to get a style makeover from Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley after she met the fashion guru at a party and begged Leon to overhaul her old look. (May 20, 2005)
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– Often infuriated major labels after they lent her outfits to wear to public events and she modified them to suit her own taste. (May 20, 2005)
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– Is writing a festive musical based on her 1994 album Merry Christmas and intends to storm Broadway, New York, and London's West End with the extravaganza. (May 2, 2005)
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– Plans to publish a series of illustrated children's books entitled 'Automatic Princess,' based on the stories of her own childhood experience as the daughter of a mixed race marriage. (April 25, 2005)
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– Confessed her marriage almost killed her. (April 20, 2005)
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– Has reportedly begged comedian Ricky Gervais for a cameo role in his new show 'Extras' after she 'laughed herself hoarse' at 'The Office', Gervais' Golden Globe-winning TV show. (April 16, 2005)
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– Has revealed that she is thinking about becoming a mum, although she is not setting a deadline. (April 12, 2005)
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– Says her 2002 flop movie WISEGIRLS got such a good reception at the Sundance Film Festival, even Sean Penn praised her performance. But following Carey's disastrous reviews for her debut movie GLITTER, WISEGIRLS never hit the big screen. (April 11, 2005)
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– Says she dislikes using lifts in Britain because they are so much smaller than what she's used to back home in America. (April 8, 2005)
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– Has revealed she still believes in Santa. (April 6, 2005)
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– During a visit to London in 2005, Carey left organizers of Capital Radio Awards fuming after turning up 90 minutes late because she reportedly broke a fingernail.
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– Part of New York's Times Square was closed to traffic for her show on April 12, 2005, the day she released her album, The Emancipation of Mimi.
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– Celebrated her 35th birthday with a life-size $9,500 cake, modeled on herself. (March 26, 2005)
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– Said she waited until her wedding night to lose her virginity - at 23. (March 19, 2005)
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– Made her debut in the Arab world with a concert in Beirut. (February 27, 2004)
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– Songs by Alicia Keys, R. Kelly, Mariah Carey are banned From 'American Idol' auditions in 2004.
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– Denied rumors she attempted suicide. (December 20, 2002)
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– Carey has wild video shoot experience In Japan -- nearly 15,000 fans showed up at the shooting site hours before Carey arrived, forcing the Tokyo police to shut down the location due to the huge turnout and she was quickly ushered to a second shooting location that was also promptly closed down by police after large crowds showed up hoping to catch a glimpse of the singer; before the end of the day, Carey was able to shoot a portion of the music video at a third location in Tokyo. (November 26, 2002)
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– Enlists Jamie-Lynn Sigler to play as her mother for her ''Through the Rain'' video. (October 3, 2002)
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– Songwriters Seth Swirsky and Warryn Campbell sued her in 2000, claiming her song was actually a copy of their composition One of Those Love Songs.
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– Co-write many of the songs in her new album herself, she got to record them in pleasant locales -- the Bahamas and the Italian isle of Capri.
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– By the time she was in junior high school, she had begun to write songs.
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– The title track of 1991's quadruple-platinum Emotions generated her fifth consecutive #1 single, placing Mariah Carey in the Top Ten All-Time achievers of Most Consecutive #1 Hits.
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– With Daydream, she became the first female artist in history to have three studio albums to each sell in excess of eight million copies.
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– Is the only artist to have had a #1 single for every year of the 1990's.
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– She bought Marilyn Monroe's white lacquered baby grand piano at auction in October, 1999 for $600,000 plus commission.
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– Her highest octave is two octaves higher than normal soprano.
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– She used to be a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr.
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– She used to work in a hair salon sweeping up hair.
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– She also states she held waitressing jobs and got fired from them all.
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– Her father is half Venezuelan and mother is Irish.
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– She is the only female artist to have 15 #1 songs on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. As of 2000, her albums had sold more than 125 million copies worldwide.
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– She had the nickname Mirage in high school, because she never showed up for class.
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– According to her spokesperson, Mariah suffered a physical and emotional breakdown, and spent the next couple weeks recovering in a Connecticut mental hospital. (25 July 2001)
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– She signed a $100,000,000 million deal with Virgin Records for her next four albums. (2001)
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– Her songs have spent more weeks at Number 1 in the Billboard charts than any other artist in history. Sixty-one weeks total, the previous record was Fifty-nine weeks held by the Beatles. (2001)
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– She was named one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
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– Has more number one singles than any artist in history, except Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
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– She owns a three floor apartment in New York City.
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– If Mariah Carey ever loses her voice, she definitely shouldn't consider a career as a chef - according to staff at a top London hotel.
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– Was nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Song from a Movie (Internet Only) in 2000 for THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (shared with Whitney Houston) and ALMA Award for Outstanding Performance by Individual in a Music Series or Special in 1999 for Mariah Carey: AROUND THE WORLD.
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