Miss Cleo

Youree Cleomili (or Dell) Harris, better known as Miss Cleo (born August 12, 1962 in Los Angeles) is a self-proclaimed psychic who claims to be able to tell the future. During her career as a television infomercial psychic, she claimed that she was originally from Jamaica. Harris sent spam e-mails, which stated, " been authorized to issue you a Special Tarot Reading! ... it is vital that you call immediately!..."

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Starting in 2001, Miss Cleo has been sued in a number of lawsuits brought by (among others) the U.S. states of Missouri and Florida, and the Federal Communications Commission. Later in 2002, a Florida newspaper reported that Miss Cleo's birth certificate said she was actually Youree Dell Harris, and born in America.

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Miss Cleo used the catchphrase, "The cards never lie!" and "Call me now!" She often referred to her viewers as "babies," as in "Call me now, babies!"

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The character has been parodied on a number of different TV shows including Chappelle's Show and on an episode of That's My Bush in which George and Laura Bush were both addicted to calling up telephone psychic "Miss Clea" for advice. Also, Modest Mouse referred to Miss Cleo in their hit song "Float On" ("A fake Jamaican took every last dime with that scam").

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She also landed a brief voice acting job for Rockstar Games to voice a Haitian gang leader character, Auntie Poulet, in the PlayStation 2 title '.

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August 12: August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining....

1962: 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). In Chinese Zodiac, the "year" of the Ox ended on February 4, 1962 and the "year" of the Tiger began on February 5, 1962....

Los Angeles: United States...

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