Mary J Blige, the R&B diva, uses the name Mrs Jefferson when she’s checked into a hotel. Then it gets interesting. The Smoking Gun has come upon documents detailing her demands when she’s on the road. Mrs Jefferson, for example, will sleep in nothing less than a presidential suite, with a kingsize bed, and only if the connecting room is not rented. It must be a presidential suite away from elevators, ice and vending machines, and housekeeping work stations. (Know of any presidential suites located thus?) There is to be no vacuuming outside her room or noise of any kind “in or near the hotel” or she will relocate at the hotel’s expense. Her dressing room at the performance venue, per her contract, must include a private john with a new toilet seat and….

Imagine what she might ask for if she could sing on key.