2011: Dateline

You are watching Dateline with Barbara Walters.

Tonight on Dateline, "Did We Really Know Maximilian Rolleck and Maliyah Jones?"

Barbra Walters speaks with her mother.

Barbra Walters: "First of all I want to thank you, Mrs. Margarite Jones and the family friends for joining us."

Magarite Jones: " No problem, Barbra."

Barbra: " Now, Maliyah Jones and Max Rolleck; did we really know them or did we not?"

Margarite: " Ya know, there really wasn't any relationship like theirs. I mean, they were inseparable. Ever since she started singing and, ya know, when I got sick and sent away, he took care of her like she was his own. She took that to tha heart. I mean, when I saw that little girl sing, I was automatically in tears. When I saw my baby on that stage, it was like a feeling that I can't even explain.

Barbra: "Now her biological father, being italian, did he all of a sudden run away or..."

Margarite: "No. He would never run away from his kids; never. Of course from what I knew."

Barbra: " 'Kids?' You mean Maliyah has siblings?"

Margarite: " Yes, but not from me. Being that he had six other baby-mammas and that they were all the rich caucasian snobby women, and me being the only african american one, it was really hard for me.

Barbra: "What do you mean by hard for you..."

Margarite: I mean it was hard for me to get help from him when he had seven other kids to support and Maliyah being the youngest one."

Barbra: "Okay, now I see what you're saying."

Margarite: " But I tell you what, he loved that little girl with all his heart There wasn't a thing he wouldn't do for her or any of his kids. I can vouch for that."

Barbra: " Now when did Maximilian come into the picture, how did that come to be?"

Maragarite: " It was around one 'o clock in the morning when I was getting ready for bed, and someone, it must have been a close friend of his, I sure didn't know him, knocked on my door crying his eyes out. He told me the news that Adriano was dead, I just lost it. The funeral was absolutely beautiful. He was in his black striped tux with a pink flower, ya know the whole italian get up. Every year we would have a memorial service on his grave and Maliyah would sing. My baby would sing her lil' heart out! Lil' did I know that Maximilian was a dear friend of his and producer of music and he took my baby under his wing. Thats how, ya know, we got to know each other."

Barbra: " Didn't Maliyah have any sadness from the death of her father?"

Margarite: " I think she was too young to understand...what happened. I mean she never really knew him because ya know, she was too young."

Barbra: "Now what about her siblings? Did they hang out or...?"

Margarite: " Being that I had a real shallow relationship with the mothers, they gave the impression that they didn't want their children to have anything to do with me or Maliyah."

Barbra: " Oh she didn't know any of them...?"

Margarite: " Oh she knew about five of them...but the twin girls she never knew them. And, since she was already on the road a lot she mostly didn't have the time to take care of me when I got sick and just put me in a nursery home...I wasn't mad at her. She also had to make the money to keep paying for me to stay there."

Barbra: " Now I heard that you are getting better..."

Margarite: " Yes, I am.."

Barbra: " Congratulations on that..."

Margarite: " Thanks so much...yeah"

Barbra: " Now there was this Hollywood feud between her, Lil Kim, and Nicki Minaj...that took all the attention in Hollywood..."

Margarite: " Oh man, that?"

Barbra: " Can you tell us about that?"

Margarite: " Okay. Lil Kim and Maliyah were on teams against Ms. Nicki because she just kept rapping trash about them. Now Lil Kim n Maliyah became good friends when Max introduced them to each other. Not only did they come back with a harder blow, but they also put her back in her place."

Barbra: " I see. We have a couple of clips from previous interviews from Maliyah herself, based on that whole situation. Lets take a look."

::::CLIP::::

Barbra: " I just want to say that it is an honor for you to come open up to us about this whole situation...I mean Hollywood has been buzzing about this for a while."

Maliyah: "Thank you Barbra."

Barbra: "Okay. You. Lil Kim. Nicki Minaj. What happened?"

Maliyah: " All this kittie (bleep)...Excuse my language, started when Nicki made a mixtape, dissing us. Now you know Im a recovered alcoholic and one of her lyrics were 'Go gurgle gurgle and drink up like Maliyah, get them bottles up you (bleep)ing lame, cant catch up in the game" And I called her on the phone and was like excuse me? First of all I don't give a (bleep) if you're rapping, keep my mother(bleep)ing name out ya cotdamn mouth. She hardly even knew me to talk about me like that. Ya know, it's the high-school he-say-she-say stuff. And Kim and I are getting sick and tired of this bull(bleep)"

::::END CLIP::::

Barbra: " Would you like a tissue?" (hands her a tissue for tears)

Margarite: " Yes, thank you. Ya know when Maliyah (wipes eyes) got mad she didn't play any games. She didn't like to be mean and belligerent like that. She wanted to be friends with everybody. She was still a child at heart. (More tears fall down her face) Im sorry, I still can't believe my babies are gone."

Barbra: " (Hands her another tissue and she blows her nose and taps eyes) Thank you again for coming tonight."

Margarite: (Nods her head and sobs)

Barbra: Stay tuned for part two, joining us will be her closest siblings."

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