Manuela Testolini was born September 19, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born to an Italian father and Egyptian mother. She went to live in the US after completing a degree in Law and Sociology from York University in Toronto. Testolini married Prince on New Year's Eve of 2001 in Hawaii and took Prince's family name, Nelson. Manuela filed for divorce May 24, 2006 and the couple had no children together.
She is presently president and CEO of Gamillah Inc., a socially active corporation that promotes cultural and economic harmony through artistic means by creating programs, information, products & services, and seeking to support selected non-profit organizations. She is also founder of a children's non-profit organization called In a Perfect World, which seeks to empower children through the arts.
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