Did Miss Cleo predict her legal troubles?
By Jerry Schwartz AP National Writer Shlomit Galperin remembers the caller whose boyfriend told her that her cat had been run over by a truck. Tell me, the caller asked: Did my boyfriend lie? Did he kill the cat? Galperin closed her eyes. “Yes!” she said. “I knew it!” said the caller. Galperin knew no such thing. A cleaning lady who wanted to make some money, she had answered an ad and found herself answering phone calls to a psychic hot line on behalf of Miss Cleo, the exuberant soothsayer with the Jamaican accent whose television appearances, mostly in late-night commercials, have made her an extrasensory sensation. Galperin quit last May, before lawsuits filed by at least nine states and the Federal Trade Commission took a heavy toll on the company’s reputation and profits. They charged the company Miss Cleo represents, Access Resource Services of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with all sorts of sins, including lying about Miss Cleo’s qualifications as a seer. But it would be a mistake to f
