The larger-than-life figure, whose real name was Youree Dell Cleomill Harris, had been battling cancer and passed away surrounded by friends and family, her rep said in a statement.
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Her family were practitioners of voodoo, and she studied under a Haitian teacher for 30 years before joining the company that would propel her to fame.
The man is accused of punching his 22-year-old niece, pulling her out of her vehicle and kicking her in the rib cage while she was on the ground…
Following her TV psychic days, Harris did some voiceover work for “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”. In the investigation, a longer list of former colleagues accused Harris of cheating them and faking her Jamaican accent. Her mother, Alisa Teresa Hopis, lived in West Venice.
Harris’ run as a TV psychic was not without controversy. Harris attended a private Catholic girls’ academy in Alhambra, California.
“People want to get to you for one reason: They think that you can help them”, Harris told The Advocate. The “Miss Cleo” character was the property of Access Resource Services, based in Fort Lauderdale.
The agency accused ARS and the Psychic Readers Network of making more than $1 billion while committing multiple consumer violations, including false advertising and overly aggressive collection efforts. South Florida, a hotbed for telemarketing companies and boiler schemes, was a natural spot for Harris’s promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stotz. Not familiar with the late Miss Cleo? In 2002 the federal government charged her promoters with deceptive practices. And the next time I saw her, she made a point to come over and hug me and call me Darlin’. She said she was inspired by her godson. “She knows what she’s doing”.
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“I have clients in New Zealand, Australia, a few here in Toronto, a bunch all over the US, Jamaica, obviously”, she said to Vice.
