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Miss Cleo (Youree Dell Harris) was born on 12 August, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American phone and television psychic (1962–2016). Discover Miss Cleo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

Popular As Youree Dell Harris
Occupation Television personality
Age 53 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 12 August 1962
Birthday 12 August
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of death 26 July, 2016
Died Place Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Miss Cleo Height, Weight & Measurements

At 53 years old, Miss Cleo height is 1.85 m .

Physical Status
Height 1.85 m
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Dating & Relationship status

She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.

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Children 2

Miss Cleo Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Miss Cleo worth at the age of 53 years old? Miss Cleo’s income source is mostly from being a successful Television personality. She is from United States. We have estimated Miss Cleo's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Television personality

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1962

Youree Dell Harris (August 12, 1962 – July 26, 2016) was an American television personality and actress best known for portraying Miss Cleo, a spokeswoman for a psychic pay-per-call-minute service called Psychic Readers Network, in a series of television commercials that aired from 1997 to 2003.

Harris used various aliases, including Ree Perris, Youree Cleomili, Youree Dell Harris, Youree Perris, Rae Dell Harris, Cleomili Perris Youree, and Cleomili Harris.

Youree Harris was born on August 12, 1962, at Los Angeles County Hospital to Alisa Teresa Hopis and David Harris, and raised in a Catholic Afro-Caribbean family.

She attended, as a boarder, Ramona Convent Secondary School, a Catholic girls' school in Alhambra, California.

1980

Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Dorothy Parvaz reported that University of Southern California found no records that Harris had enrolled for four classes in 1980, as reported by People magazine.

1990

In the late 1990s, Harris began work for the Psychic Readers Network under the name Cleo.

She appeared as a television infomercial psychic in which she claimed to be a shaman from Jamaica.

Her employers' website also stated that Harris had been born in Trelawny, Jamaica, and grown up there.

The network used the title "Miss Cleo" and sent unsolicited emails, some of which stated, "[Miss Cleo has] been authorized to issue you a Special Tarot Reading!... it is vital that you call immediately!"

Charges of deceptive advertising and of fraud on the part of the network began to surface around this time.

Among the complaints were allegations that calls to Miss Cleo were answered by her "associates" who were actors reading from scripts, and that calls promoted as "free" were in fact charged for.

1993

In January 1993, Steven Feder and Peter Stolz (sometimes spelled: Stotz Stoltz Stolz ) started Psychic Advisors Network, launched to compete with Psychic Friends Network using Philip Michael Thomas, Billy Dee Williams and Catherine Oxenberg.

1996

In 1996, Harris as "Ree Perris", wrote a play entitled For Women Only, playing a Jamaican woman named "Cleo", in Seattle.

1997

In 1997, Harris as "Ree Perris", produced and performed two plays with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle, Summer Rhapsody and Supper Club Cafe.

Her last project, Supper Club Cafe in 1997, was not successful, and she "left town with a trail of debts and broken promises", according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Some of the cast of her productions claimed that they were never paid, and that Harris "told her cast members she had bone cancer" and "her medical costs would prevent her from paying people immediately", but she wrote each actor and crew member a letter telling him or her how much money she owed them.

In 1997, Harris moved to Florida, met Steven Feder and Peter Stolz, Fort Lauderdale cousins behind Access Resource Services, doing business as Psychic Readers Network and took a call-taker job as reader No. 16153.

Harris was using the Jamaican accent when she moved to Florida and began working as a tarot-reading psychic for a telemarketing center.

2000

Harris was approached by Access Resource Services while working at an event in a Pompano Beach, Florida, mall and agreed to appear in an ad in 2000.

"'the whole point was two things: keeping people on the phone as long as possible...and...telling people what they wanted to hear'"

2001

A tie-in book, Keepin' It Real: A Practical Guide for Spiritual Living appeared in 2001.

Its authorship was attributed to Miss Cleo.

In 2001, Access Resource Services, doing business as Psychic Readers Network, was sued in various lawsuits originating in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and elsewhere, as well as the Federal Communications Commission,

On 11 July 2001, Harris started a company, Waghwaan Entertainment.

2002

In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission charged the company's owners and Harris' promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stolz, with deceptive advertising, billing, and collection practices; Harris was not indicted.

The network had billed its victims for an estimated $1 billion.

Her promoters agreed to settle by erasing $500 million of debt owed by its victims to the network and paying a $5 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission.

It emerged during a lawsuit in Florida that Harris had been born in Los Angeles, and that her parents were American citizens.

The state of Florida also sued Harris under a provision of the law that allowed spokespeople to be held liable.

Dave Aronberg of the Florida Attorney General’s Office led the state’s case against her.

His successor dropped the charges.

Harris voiced the character of Auntie Poulet in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

2003

In 2003, the New York Daily News reported that TV music network Fuse had signed Harris as a spokeswoman.

2005

In early 2005, Harris was reportedly appearing on television as Miss Cleo in advertisements for a used car dealership in Florida, according to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.

Harris offered "readings", priced from $75 to $250, and "weddings", priced from $350 and up.

Harris had a podcast.

2007

In September 2007, Harris released a spoken-word CD, Convicted for My Beliefs.

2014

Under the name Cleomili Harris she spoke, from Toronto, about her experiences at the Psychic Readers Network in the 2014 documentary Hotline, which focuses on the history of telephone hotlines.

2015

In 2015, as Miss Cleo, Harris appeared in a series of advertisements for the General Mills breakfast cereal French Toast Crunch.

The Psychic Readers Network sued on the basis that they owned the character of Miss Cleo.