This mistrust is partially the reason why Rose's current management
team is more family than business partner. It's headed by Beta Lebeis, a
Brazilian woman Rose met when she was his ex-girlfriend Stephanie
Seymour's assistant; she began working for him after his tempestuous
relationship with Seymour ended in 1993. Lebeis' two adult children,
Fernando and Vanessa, round out the management group. Lebeis says that
this arrangement is the result of an ultimatum she gave Rose after Guns
N' Roses' most recent manager, Katsis, left the fold after less than a
month on the job.
"We decided, 'No more managers,'" said Lebeis a
few days after the Seattle concert. "Between me and Fernando and my
daughter, we're dealing with the management." Lebeis added that she
characterizes Rose as "more than a son to me," and that after Katsis'
departure, "I told [Rose] if he hires another manager, I quit." One of
the Lebeis three is almost always at Rose's side, be it in paparazzi
photos or side stage during concerts, near the little makeshift dressing
room that Rose frequently races into during guitar solos, or on that
rare occasion when he actually sits down with a journalist.
As
the clock pushes toward 4 a.m., Rose's tone has shifted. He still has to
do his regular hour-long vocal exercises before retiring for the night,
and the venom of earlier in the evening he'd directed against various
players in the music industry seems to have left his system.
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