Ezra Edelman
American director
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Apr 9, 2026
The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks (PTFO Vault)
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
who was a prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him, and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film, and to me, one of the most truthful voices in the film, and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that it was almost someone again, when you talk about.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.
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Pablo TorreHOST
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
Share & Bezos & Tell with Ezra Edelman and David Remnick
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
then you have to paint a correction and all these things, but it's an earnest thing and you understand that there's a system in place.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
That's why these things are valuable properties and are in a, Functioning society.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Now, to your point, you have streaming services, and I'm not going to here to indict anyone specifically, but you have this glut of content.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
So now it's like, what's a documentary and what's content? And ostensibly, there's now films that exist where, oh, hey, David, I called you up and said, I would like to make a documentary on you.
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The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks (PTFO Vault)
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Pablo TorreHOST
Discover your sense of place at Pura.com. Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that it was almost someone again, when you talk about.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.
26 MINS LATER
Pablo TorreHOST
So what I'm thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks (PTFO Vault)
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
But like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
It was almost someone again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.
22 MINS LATER
Pablo TorreHOST
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
The Cinematic Masterpiece You Won’t Get to See
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
... you know, what do you see when you visit Paisley Park? Um, oh, this is where a guy lived, but what you see is now a museum that's full of rooms that are named after albums.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
There are rooms that are full of his outfits, but there's really no mention of sex.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
There's a glossy thing that's being promoted for monetary gain, this image that we continually need to traffic in of this person who wore glitzy outfits and glitzy shoes and made all this work, all of which is true, but, like, it's so much deeper, his struggles between good and evil in himself, the struggle that you see in the music and the art, and then how it played out in his life.

Sasha WeissGUEST
And why, you know, why can't we let Prince stand as a kind of, you know, monument before we start to take him apart? So what, what, what do you make of that argument?
The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman (Finally) Speaks
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Pablo TorreHOST
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
who was a prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him, and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film, and to me, one of the most truthful voices in the film, and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but you still see how much she loves him.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
It was almost someone, again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp.
26 MINS LATER
Pablo TorreHOST
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is, now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman (Finally) Speaks
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Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but you still see how much she loves him.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
Like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
Ezra EdelmanGUEST
It was almost someone, again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman, or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp.
22 MINS LATER
Pablo TorreHOST
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is, now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?