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  Miss Cleo Puts Her Cards On Table | keithboykin.com
After some controversy in 2001 and 2002, a Florida newspaper reported that Miss Cleo's birth certificate identifies her as Youree Harris, and that she was born in the United States.
More recently, the news of Miss Cleo's sexuality was first published in the October 2006 issue of The Advocate magazine, where Miss Cleo may be launching her comeback.
Miss Cleo, who now identifies herself more as a "shaman" than a psychic, tells The Advocate that she decided to come out after speaking to her 16-year-old godson who was coming out on his own.
www.keithboykin.com /arch/2006/09/25/miss_cleo_puts   (855 words)

  
 Miss Cleo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later in 2002, a Florida newspaper reported Miss Cleo's birth certificate identifies her as Youree Dell Harris, and that she was born in Los Angeles.
Miss Cleo has been researched by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
Miss Cleo has been parodied on a number of different TV shows including: That's So Raven; Futurama; Madtv;Charmed; Chappelle's Show; The Man Show; That's My Bush;Celebrity Deathmatch; and on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in which singer Vicki Randle imitated her.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miss_Cleo   (996 words)

  
 Yah, Mon, I predict you're going to jail. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
Miss Cleo's meteoric rise, from alleged Seattle theater-scene deadbeat to television's most recognized telephone psychic, is one of those uniquely depressing American rags-to-riches stories.
Miss Cleo likes to call back and tell you she's had an important dream about you; that you must call her back—or at least call back some paid telemarketer at $4.99 a minute.
She says that whether Miss Cleo and her phalanx of psychics are clairvoyant is not a legal issue at all.
www.slate.com /?id=2063700   (1902 words)

  
 Miss Cleo - Uncyclopedia
Miss Cleo, seen in her SPECTRE garb with obligatory white cat.
Miss Cleo, born Thelma Anne Williamson, is a famous fraudulent fortune teller, and high-ranking member of SPECTRE.
Miss Cleo re-emerged in late 1994, now giving fortunes from her mobile home in Northern California.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Miss_Cleo   (529 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Secrets of Miss Cleo's kitchen revealed in new book
Miss Cleo later furthered her skills with hospitality training courses to become Cayman's first female executive chef, in charge of the resort's kitchen.
Miss Cleo spent hundreds of hours writing down from memory many of her recipes that would have otherwise been lost in the storm.
Miss Cleo was honored by Queen Elizabeth II with the prestigious Certificate and Badge of Honour for her contributions to the community and Cayman's tourism industry.
www.caymannetnews.com /cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000062/006240.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Miss Cleo Biography (Psychic) — Infoplease.com
A sassy self-proclaimed psychic, Miss Cleo was the star of late-night TV infomercials in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Claiming to be a mystical shaman from Jamaica, Miss Cleo urged viewers to phone a "900" telephone number where they would pay by the minute to have their fortunes read.
Miss Cleo became a jokey pop culture icon much like an earlier psychic promoter, Dionne Warwick.
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/misscleo.html   (124 words)

  
 Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, Defends Unsaved Harlot Miss Cleo and Psychic Con Man Pat Robertson
After all, Miss Cleo is only promising the hair color of next Thursday's fling, not a rendezvous with God, eternal life and a charmingly appointed mansion of gold overlooking the Milky Way.
Nevertheless, while I have always considered Miss Cleo's syntax and mode of dress criminal, it worries me that she may be criminally liable for duping an audience verily begging to be deceived and fleeced.
To blame Miss Cleo for someone else's desperation is tantamount to jailing the man driving the train that Anna Karenina found herself under.
www.bettybowers.com /misscleo.html   (530 words)

  
 AlternativeApproaches.com: Miss Cleo - Another One Bites The Dust
Like many others, over the last couple of years I've found myself being entertained in the wee hours of the morning by Miss Cleo's infomercials for Tarot readings, despite the fact that it was obvious that she was a fraud.
But now Miss Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network, Inc. (PRN), the company she represented, are no more, put out of business on November 14th by the Federal Trade Commission.
Although she was not a part of the FTC action, Miss Cleo (whose real name is Youree Cleomili Harris) does not emerge from this mess with her reputation intact.
www.alternativeapproaches.com /altapr/aacleo.html   (812 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM- TOP NEWS
But the one place Miss Cleo, whose real name is Youree Cleomili Harris, is least likely to be found is on her hotline—which is actually staffed by "psychic associates" who are part of a business empire constructed by a wealthy South Florida businessman, Steven Feder.
A look at the inner workings of Miss Cleo's network suggests that the answer, in some cases, is not much at all.
But it is Harris, or "Miss Cleo," who says she comes from a line of Jamaican shamans, that has given Feder and Stolz the perfect face to put on the well-tuned marketing engine they have built over the years.
www.courttv.com /news/feature/misscleo_ctv.html   (996 words)

  
 Cleo-LB
In my opinion, Miss Cleo is not doing the world of Tarot any favors, because she is simply reinforcing the common opinion that Tarot readers are charlatans or worse.
Despite my low opinion of Miss Cleo’s employers’ business practices, and despite my misgivings about her willingness to involve herself in such an enterprise, I do admit that she has an engaging personality and is enjoyable to watch.
So on the whole, although Miss Cleo is entertaining to watch, I would recommend buying the deck without the video, unless you’re consumed with curiosity about what Miss Cleo has done with it, or unless you want to see exactly how she does the Four Doors spread.
www.tarotpassages.com /cleo-lb.htm   (2796 words)

  
 About Miss Cleo
Cleo is the watchdog of the family and the pride and joy of her owners.
Miss Cleo barked her way into her owners heart for more creativity, now Cleo's Barkery™ makes a variety of flavor’s (Lamb, Turkey, Venison, Chicken, White Fish, Duck and Vegetarian) canine cakes as well as cookies and cupcakes.
Cleo's Barkery™ delights friends and families of beloved doggie owners with her doggie cakes and cookies for any occasion, made with the only the finest ingredients your doggie demands.
cleosbarkery.com /about_cleo.htm   (229 words)

  
 Miss Cleo...You Are Sinning Against YAHUVEH!
Charges against the woman pitched to millions as psychic Miss Cleo were dropped as part of the state's $44 million settlement with her promoter.
Youree Dell Harris, better known as the telemarketing Miss Cleo, was charged with deceptive trade practices in a civil suit filed by the Florida attorney general's office.
Miss Cleo is truly a psychic and what she is doing is wrong, not to mention the way she and the company hosting her psychic hotline are ripping off people.
amightywind.com /misscleo/misscleo.htm   (1797 words)

  
 "MISS CLEO" CHARGED WITH DECEPTION, VIOLATING NY LAW
We wonder, then, if Miss Cleo, a woman in garish costume and questionable accent who graces the ad slots of cable television, could foresee Wednesday's action where she is accused of violating New York's "Do Not Call" telemarketing laws more than 100 times in the past seven months.
For the record, Miss Cleo is really a woman named Youree Cleomili Harris; and the recent investigation into her telemarketing company and yesterday's report may account for why she has been appearing in her ads recently denouncing those who are persecuting and "jabbing" at her for her "beliefs."
Sorry, Miss Cleo is not answering the phone personally; rather, calls are directed to a telephone network of "stay-at-home-psychics'" who work hard to keep callers on the phone -- and the phone tab going -- so that they average at least fifteen minutes worth of call-time revenue.
www.atheists.org /flash.line/psychic1.htm   (1012 words)

  
 San Antonio Lightning
The television psychic known as Miss Cleo, who was driven off the airwaves by state and federal fraud charges, was back on the air Wednesday, but she wasn't there to predict the future.
Now Miss Cleo is recruiting "psychics" in the San Antonio area, through the city classifieds of the San Antonio Express News.
The judgments that her company has been forced to pay by various Attorneys General across the US are simply the price of doing business in a hustle that brings in an estimated $400,000,000 per year.
sanantoniolightning.com /cleo.html   (520 words)

  
 T. Rex's Guide to Skepticism - Psychics: Miss Cleo
I see a former employee of Miss Cleo, who claims to be an actual psychic, claim that the other "psychics" who worked for Miss Cleo didn't even pretend to be psychic when they weren't on the phone - that they were total frauds.
I see Miss Cleo's managerial staff advising operators to stretch out the time that callers are on the line.
I see that Miss Cleo's competitors are all just as fake as she is and are just as committed to defrauding the public as she is. I see people not using their brains and calling these charlatains.
quinnell.us /natural/skepticism/psychics/cleo.html   (944 words)

  
 Article Title Goes Here 12
Beware, though, of the LWB and the video which opens with Miss Cleo herself saying: "Well, go on, babees!" This video is a full-color glimpse par excellence of what is only hinted at in the LWB.
Though Cleo admits that there is no one correct way to shuffle, she does say that "once, twice, or even three times" is good.
Cleo then expounds at some length on her ability to treat a tarot reading as a puzzle at which she is aptly trained to assemble the pieces.
www.comparativetarot.com /features/misscleovideo.htm   (1127 words)

  
 Miss Cleo left a trail of deception in Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Before Miss Cleo became the slick star of the Psychic Readers Network, she was a playwright who debuted a likely prototype for her island shaman persona here in 1996.
But then Miss Cleo -- or Ree Perris, Youree Cleomili, Youree Dell Harris, Youree Perris, Rae Dell Harris, Cleomili Perris Youree, Cleomili Harris, or whatever she has called herself -- left town with a trail of debts and broken promises.
As for Miss Cleo's Jamaican accent (Florida authorities have challenged Perris to prove that she really is a Jamaican shaman), "She had no Jamaican accent -- she was born and raised in L.A.," said Perris' former castmate, "...
seattlepi.nwsource.com /lifestyle/60478_misscleo.shtml   (933 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - TOP NEWS
Outspoken television psychic Miss Cleo repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, refusing to discuss a birth certificate showing she was born in Los Angeles to American parents.
Miss Cleo's lawyer issued this press release dismissing as a "Modern-day witch hunt" a Florida lawsuit that charges his client — as well as ARS, the company running the psychic service for which she is a spokesperson — with consumer fraud allegations.
A psychic hotline, popularized on television by "Miss Cleo," is under fire by users who say it's a fraud and government agencies who charge the company behind it of unfair business practices.
www.courttv.com /news/feature/cleo   (558 words)

  
 'Miss Cleo' faces lawsuits - Feb. 15, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In addition, the state of Florida on Thursday filed a similar complaint in Broward County Circuit Court, but it also accused Miss Cleo herself, whose real name is Youree Dell Harris, of violating state law on deceptive trade practices.
Miss Cleo, a familiar face on television advertisements, offers viewers an insight into their lives through free psychic readings or Tarot cards.
Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network had better consult their lawyers.
money.cnn.com /2002/02/15/news/wires/cleo_re   (543 words)

  
 Missouri Sues Miss Cleo, Alleges DNC Violations
The Missouri attorney general's office has filed a lawsuit against the operators of the Miss Cleo psychic hot line -- famous for late-night direct response TV ads -- alleging violations of the state's new do-not-call list.
Access Resource Services also illegally billed for calls made by minors without parental consent, even though its services are advertised as being for people older than 18 only, the lawsuit charged.
"Miss Cleo should have seen this coming," Nixon said in a statement.
www.dmnews.com /cms/dm-news/legal-privacy/16377.html   (199 words)

  
 Whatever Happened To: Miss Cleo
Appeared as Miss Cleo in late-night TV infomercials, claiming to be a Jamaican born-and-raised shaman priestess and psychic.
The Miss Cleo character was based on a Jamaican character called Cleo that Harris had performed in her Seattle play by the name of For Women Only.
In early 2005, Harris was back on TV as Cleo in advertisements for a used car dealership in Florida, according to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
rss.weht.net /WEHT/Miss_Cleo.html   (368 words)

  
 Kansas investigating Miss Cleo's 'psychic hotline' | LJWorld.com
Ohlemeier said some of the complaints in Kansas are from people saying the Miss Cleo psychic hotline has made calls to their homes, but he said, there is nothing the state can do about that because Kansas does not have a no-call law.
Recent television ads show Miss Cleo telling viewers that she will stay in business despite attempts to rein her in.
He said that Miss Cleo may rub Midwestern sensibilities the wrong way, but that the psychic hotline is a thriving and legitimate business.
www.ljworld.com /section/frontpage/story/67752   (680 words)

  
 Cleo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cleo is a female given name that is short for Cleopatra and an alternate spelling for Clio.
Cleo, fictional clone of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt on the American TV Series Clone High.
CLEO (particle detector), the name of a particle detector operated by a collaboration of physicists at Cornell University
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CLEO   (210 words)

  
 State: State sues to close Miss Cleo
Butterworth said Miss Cleo, also known as Youree Dell Harris of Davie, uses deception to get people on the telephone with an offer of free psychic advice and keeps them on the line at $5 a minute until she makes an average of about $100 a call.
Her television ads offer a free three-minute tarot card reading to those who call in, but Butterworth said the telemarketers who answer are trained to put callers on hold, shuffle cards, urge callers to "take a deep breath" or get a glass of water before they do a reading.
Miss Cleo promises help to win the lottery, raise children and improve your love life and kidney function, Butterworth said.
www.sptimes.com /2002/02/15/State/State_sues_to_close_M.shtml   (604 words)

  
 MISS CLEO SPAMS FEO - REDUX!
It would be plain awful if Miss Cleo ever found out and starts trashing their offices.
In the meantime, I continue to be cyber-stalked by Miss Cleo.
Miss Cleo is trying to make me jealous by seducing my friend, Brian Knight.
www.feoamante.com /FeoNews/misscleo_spams.html   (644 words)

  
 Miss Cleo' Cited for Barrage of Telemarketing Calls
Gina V. and her husband, Ronald, are an elderly couple residing in Syracuse who received numerous tape-recorded phone calls from Miss Cleo.
In these telemarketing calls, "Miss Cleo" urges people to call her psychic line quickly because she has "urgent news" to give them.
While "Miss Cleo" advertises an 800 number for a "free psychic reading," consumers complain -- and the CPB investigation confirms -- that no such service is provided on the 800 telephone number advertised by "Miss Cleo." So-called "psychics" are only available on the 900 lines operated by PRN.
www.ladyathena.com /fake_psychics/dailing_for_dollars.htm   (1306 words)

  
 Miss Cleo - DBSTalk.Com
Miss Cleo is just as fake as the psychics who call out sick and crippled people's names from the crowd in their church on Sundays to be healed by Christ.
Why didn't Miss Cleo know they were coming after her...
Miss Cleo maybe really annoying but, I think theres someone worse then her.
www.dbstalk.com /showthread.php?p=3801   (664 words)

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