Ms. Cleo is in trouble

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No matter how little television you watch, it's hard to miss an ad for Miss Cleo, the Jamaican psychic who, for a small fee, will tell you what your future holds. But wait! As the New York Post quipped in its headline: "Miss Cleo's Fakin'! She Ain't Jamaican." She must just be really good at accents--especially Jamaican. The Post managed to inspect a copy of Miss Cleo's birth certificate. Her real name is Yourree Dell Harris, and she was born on August 13, 1962 in Los Angeles. She's American! "Not even her parents are Jamaican or from the Caribbean," Broward County Assistant State Attorney Dave Aronberg, who's launched a lawsuit against Miss Cleo and the company she represents, told the Post. "Her dad's from Texas and her mom from Los Angeles."


Aronberg is suing Miss Cleo, charging her with being the spokeswoman for an alleged scam that involves Access Resource Services, the Fort Lauderdale company that operates the Psychic Readers Network. Miss Cleo claims in her infomercials that she is a Jamaican master shaman. "The company she represents has been misleading its clients, the consumers," Aronberg told the Post. "That's why I wanted to get hold of this birth certificate. It shows that she's not telling customers who Miss Cleo really is."