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Nia Long Recalls Turning Down Prince at 1990s L.A. Club

The account surfaces as outlets report she is attached to a Netflix film inspired by Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.

Overview

  • Long shared the story on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Oct. 27, describing a nightclub moment she initially brushed off.
  • She said the encounter occurred at the Roxbury in Los Angeles, where she pulled away when a man grabbed her hand before learning it was Prince.
  • By the time she and a friend went back inside to find him, Prince had already left the venue, according to Long.
  • She recounted a later meeting nearly two decades on at her birthday party, where she said Prince spent the night asking about her hair routine.
  • Separately, WBLS reports Long will reunite with Larenz Tate on a Netflix project inspired by Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, with Long, Tate, Maxwell and John D. Hammond as executive producers and Eugene Ashe directing from a script by Ashe and Kay Oyegun.