Miss Cleo
This
is a follow up to the August 26. 2015 Judiciary Report article
"Hollywood's Ignorant, Racist And Hateful Characterizations Of Jamaicans" where the site wrote about the racist, offensive stereotype
Hollywood created in fake, ungodly television psychic "Miss Cleo" who
purported to know the future but it was all a lie. It is being reported
that the woman behind the "Miss Cleo" character, openly lesbian, Youree
Dell Harris, died today at age 53.
Miss Cleo fronted the fraudulent Psychic Readers Network, who were forced by the government to reverse $500,000,000 in telephone charges billed to the public for so-called psychic readings
While her passing is sad, I would like to
implore people not to make money from tricking and ripping
off people with scams, like the one "Miss Cleo" was apart of
in the so-called Psychic Network, who were criminally
indicted by the U.S. government for fraud. If someone truly
had a gift for seeing the future, they wouldn't charge for
it. Why would God give a gift like that to a financially
greedy people.
"Miss Cleo" and her stereotypes and ignorant
characterizations of Jamaicans, when she was not Jamaican or
of Jamaican descent, is offensive and insulting. To
fraudulently take money from the public, in essence people
who were hurting from heartbreak in relationships, job
losses and those missing deceased loved ones and wanting a
sign from them or some form of contact from the great beyond
(which is a spiritually bad idea as you're not supposed to
be trying to contact the dead) was highly unethical and a
cruel hoax.
These things were not done in the name of
God. They were done in the name of money and "The love of
money is the root of all evil." The Bible says the living
should not try to contact the dead. It's an unhealthy frame
of mind to pretend the dead are still here, when they have
moved on to the next life.
STORY SOURCE
TV Psychic Miss Cleo Dead At 53
07/26/2016 01:06 pm ET - Cleo Harris, best
known as Miss Cleo the face and voice of the Psychic Friends
Network television ads of a few years ago, is shown in Lake
Worth, Florida, on February 24, 2009. TV psychic Miss Cleo,
whose real name is Youree Dell Harris, died Tuesday morning
at a Palm Beach County, Florida, hospital, her rep confirmed
to TMZ. She was 53 years old.
According to her representative’s statement
to the celebrity gossip site, the psychic was a “pillar of
strength” while battling colon cancer. Harris was released
to a hospice center last week. Harris was born in Los
Angeles, California, in August 1962. She found fame as
Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo, who was well-known in the late
‘90s for her commercials that asked viewers to “Call me
now.” Harris later found work voicing a character in 2002’s
video game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Youree Dell Harris, the TV Psychic Miss Cleo, Dies at 53
Youree Dell Harris, the TV Psychic Miss Cleo, Dies at 53
JULY 26, 2016 - Youree Dell Harris, whose
Jamaican-accented character Miss Cleo was the face (and
voice) of ubiquitous psychic hotline commercials in the late
1990s before the company was fined by the federal
government, died on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 53.
The cause was cancer, William J. Cone Jr., a lawyer for Ms.
Harris, said in a statement.
Ms. Harris first entered the pop culture
zeitgeist in the late ’90s, arriving with a humble set of
tools built for late-night TV audiences: a deck of tarot
cards, a skeptical facial expression and an oft-uttered
catchphrase — “Call me now!” As a vividly colored background
swirled or candles burned, Miss Cleo sat and provided
counsel to often-sheepish callers. Many of the commercials
followed a cheating-lover theme: “Who asked you to go out of
town, the stupid young one or the married one?” she asked a
caller in one commercial. “The married one,” the caller
answered. “That’s what me thought,” Miss Cleo said with a
knowing nod.
The commercials made her a star of the
Psychic Readers Network. The Miss Cleo character also
inspired spoofs on late-night TV and gave Ms. Harris other
business opportunities, including a book, “Keepin’ It Real:
A Practical Guide for Spiritual Living.” She voiced a
character in a 2002 video game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
But her fame also led to questions about her
past. In 2002, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an
investigation that revealed she had a list of aliases and a
longer list of former colleagues on the local theater scene
who said they had been cheated out of money and questioned
her Jamaican background.
“She had no Jamaican accent — she was born
and raised in L.A.,” a former cast mate told the paper. (A
copy of a birth certificate posted by BuzzFeed in 2013
showed that Ms. Harris was indeed born in Los Angeles on
Aug. 12, 1962.)
In 2002, the Psychic Readers Network and
Access Resource Services were the subject of a federal
lawsuit that ordered the companies to forgive $500 million
in customer fees. The networks agreed to stop selling their
services over the phone, and, according to the Federal Trade
Commission, the companies agreed to pay a $5 million fine...
