2007-01-28 16:55:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Horoscopes
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The operators of Miss Cleo's psychic hot line agreed Thursday to cancel $500 million in customer bills to settle federal charges that the service fleeced callers while promising mystical insights into love and money.
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In settlement, two companies that hosted psychic hot line infomercials will pay $1.9 million to Connecticut residents
Miss Cleo's not talking
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.
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'Miami Vice' star wins suit
He didn't have to chase down Colombian drug runners, bust a diamond-smuggling ring, or catch a bribe-taking politician in the act, but former "Miami Vice" star Philip Michael Thomas scored a big takedown Wednesday — by winning a suit against the psychic network he used to represent.
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Lawyer: Miss Cleo targeted in 'witch hunt'
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.
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'Miss Cleo' mansion for sale
The posh waterfront mansion owned by businessman Steven Feder, who has made millions on a telephone psychic business helmed by a would-be shaman named Miss Cleo, is on the block for the low, low price of $8.9 million.
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Miss Cleo's a Valley girl
Though the commercials for her psychic hotline tout her as a Jamaican shaman, a birth certificate for the purported soothsayer shows she was born in California. It's only the latest in a string of accusations against the lucrative hotline.
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What's in the cards for "Miss Cleo" psychic hotline?
In commercials, she claims to be a psychic from Jamaica who can predict your future over the telephone — for a per-minute fee. But the Miss Cleo's Mind and Spirit Psychic Network is actually part of Florida businessman Steven Feder's empire. Now the hotline is facing lawsuits ranging from allegations that prewritten advice was stolen from a book to charges they hound people on no-call lists.
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Courttv.com puts it to the test
Reporter Matt Bean called the psychic hotline — only to find that the revelations were strikingly close to a prewritten script he had obtained. Even his "free" minutes were spent on hold or giving personal information.
2007-01-28 19:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by sapphire_630 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
her scam got busted wide open
2007-01-29 01:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
she die? haven't seen her on tv in a long time.. :(
2007-01-29 01:00:55 · answer #3 · answered by Darunik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋