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Britney
Spears Threatens Legal Action Over Bald Billboard Ads
6/19/07
Britney Spears is threatening to take a Florida radio station to court
over a series of billboard advertisements that used her bald-headed image
next to the captions 'Certifiable', 'Shock Therapy' and 'Total Nut Jobs'.
The Toxic star is less-than-impressed with WFLZ's advertising hoardings
for MJ Morning Show, which her lawyer claims are "outrageous in the
extreme".
The three billboards feature a paparazzi photo of Spears in the days
after she controversially shaved her head earlier this year (07).
In a letter obtained by website TheSmokingGun.com and sent to the legal
department of Clear Channel, which owns WFLZ, Spears' attorney protests
the decision to link the singer's image with mental illness and for
allegedly failing to remove the billboards nearly two weeks ago.
The letter reads: "It was outrageous in the extreme that Clear
Channel created and displayed the billboards in the first place. That
Clear Channel then had the unabashed temerity to lie about their removal
shocks the conscience.
"We demand a complete inventory of all Clear Channel billboards
containing my client's photograph... We must also insist upon documentary
evidence verified under penalty of perjury to establish that all of the
billboards have in fact been taken down."
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