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In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history - the Supremes - told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown Records czar Berry Gordy, her drinking problem and pleas for help, a never-ending desire to be the Supremes' lead singer, and her attempts to get her life back on track after being brutally expelled from group. This is a tumultuous and heartbreaking story of a world-famous performer whose life ended at the age of 32 as a lonely mother of three who had only recently recovered from years of poverty and despair.

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Flo Ballard's remarkable story is a personal Greek tragedy. In his wonderful The Lost Supreme, Peter Benjaminson tells it masterfully, with all the drama and empathy her life deserves. In Benjaminson's talented hands, Flo Ballard earns the lasting stardom she was deprived of in life. -- Gerald Posner, Author, Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power

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"Peter Benjaminson is the author of ""Death in the Afternoon: America's Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival, Secret Police: Inside the New York City Department of Investigation, ""and"" The Story of Motown, ""and is the coathor of"" Investigative Reporting""."" ""He is a former reporter for ""The""""Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""and the ""Detroit Free Press. The Lost Supreme""'s website can be found at""""www.thelostsupreme.com"">www.thelostsupreme.com"

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