“It was just rhetoric and garbage,” said Douglas, an attractive woman in a stylish brown wool dress suit who looks more like Ashanti’s older sister than her self-described “momager.”įor months, Douglas ignored him. However he got the number - and maybe he’ll explain that when he takes the stand, as scheduled, today - Hurd started calling Douglas’ business phone in 2006, leaving messages that at first were merely annoying, authorities say. The mom still doesn’t know how Hurd got her business number, except that managing Ashanti means dealing with “thousands” of people in the recording, television, film and theater worlds - too many contacts to simply change the number, she told jurors. Yesterday, Douglas described how that happy household, abuzz with the business of managing a successful international music star, was rocked by the intrusion of Hurd’s alleged depravity. “But she’s my daughter first.”ĭouglas and her husband, Ashanti’s tour manager, raised Ashanti and a younger daughter in a Glen Cove, LI, home the couple has shared for 30 years. “My job is to be her manager,” Douglas told the jury. “I’m thinking, in my mind, rape,” Tina Douglas testified on Day 1 of the stalking trial of Devon Hurd, an Indiana man who allegedly sent a vile fusillade of 32 disgusting messages to her business cellphone - including texts in which he fantasized about sex with the young star and attached pictures he snapped of himself masturbating. A sex-crazed fan made Ashanti’s manager-mother “terrified” for her daughter’s safety, the R&B star’s mom told a Manhattan jury yesterday.

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