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Star Jones And A Detroit Michigan Charity
How do you know you’ve really achieved star status?
Just ask Star Jones of Court TV. Jones has had to take the time to clarify what seems to us a very simple matter of non-performance of a contractual agreement on the part of some pretty sleazy individuals.
According to Jones’ statement at her web site she was hired by a Detroit, Michigan charitable organization for overweight inner city females youths for a speaking engagement. These low income individuals under the tutelage of one Sharon DuMas-Pugh hired Jones to make an appearance at a luncheon, a news conference, and to provide a speech on empowerment at the bargain price of $25, 000 during SuperBowl Weekend in Detroit in February 2006.
After several months of waiting for fulfillment of the “purchaser’s” portion of the contract, and we must add Jones was quite gracious through her booking agency at the time the William Morris Agency, to extend to the group more time to collect the money they’d agreed to pay for her services. The group did not provide the five star hotel accommodation for Jones and her husband Al Reynolds and Jones-Reynolds personal assistant. No ground transportation was supplied, nor had the remaining fees to complete the contract been received when the former practicing attorney now celebrity boarded the flight to the speaking engagement.
We think there are some points to be made here and lessons to be learned.
Firstly, it seems to us from the materials made available by Jones on her web site no one ever clearly knew what type of organization was sponsoring this “Urban Solution/Full & Fabulous Inc’s Health and Beauty Expo”. We see no indication its
status as a charitable organization was ever disclosed to Jones-Reynolds or her representatives. We have no proof but we are almost certain the fee for the speaking engagement would have been reduced if this information has been disclosed from the start.
Secondly, everyone should know all the hustlers, shady dealers, shake-down artists, flimflam-types, con men and con women come out when they hear the National Football League is coming to a town near you. It’s an opportunity for 7 to 10 days of unbridled chicanery on the part of profiteering, predatory types in official capacity with the NFL, the host city and those who are itinerant swindlers.
Finally, and we believe the most important point, one becomes a target when one is a popular personality or celebrity.
It is unfortunate the youths were disappointed because of the greedy avaricious behavior of an allegedly responsible adult who has made an unsuccessful attempt to build her reputation while destroying Jones-Reynolds good name. We’re wonderin’ if this DuMas-Pugh person had been informed of the fact Jones-Reynolds is an experienced attorney, as well as being a former reporter and now a celebrated television personality.
To Ms Jones-Reynolds, we believe you were more than indulgent with this group, even without knowing their charitable organiztion status. We’re sure you’ve put in place a means by which you and your staff of representatives can determine, simply by asking and investigating, in the future any other requests for your services in this capacity with consideration being given to what other events are taking place during the date being requested.
We actually like and admire Ms Star “I’m-a-lawyer” Jones-Reynolds. We think she has handles very well the fact she is constantly being scrutinized by the public. It’s not easy dealing with the media remiss in it’s duties to report the facts objectively. By the way congratulations on the new program on Court TV.
Your name is Star, you’ve always been a star and now once again you know you’ve really achieved celebrity, you should pardon the expression, genuine Star status!
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