*For Kevin Clash it seems that the coming forward of another young man to claim he had underage sex with him, was too much.
The man who has been the puppeteer and voice of the Elmo character on “Sesame Street” since 1985, has resigned from the Sesame Workshop amid on-going controversy over allegations of a sexual relationship with minors.
As we’ve reported, Sheldon Stephens, 24, accused Clash of having sex with him when he was just 16-years-old. Clash took a leave of absence but rejected the charges, and Sesame Workshop issued a statement saying that they had investigated the accusations and found no impropriety. Then on Monday, as we reported, Stephens took back his recant and said he was paid to say the alleged underage sex didn’t happen.
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The end came this morning when the Sesame Workshop issued a statement saying:
“Sesame Workshop’s mission is to harness the educational power of media to help all children the world over reach their highest potential. Kevin Clash has helped us achieve that mission for 28 years, and none of us, especially Kevin, want anything to divert our attention from our focus on serving as a leading educational organization. Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding Kevin’s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want, and he has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job and has resigned from Sesame Street. This is a sad day for Sesame Street.”
To make matters worse, as we alluded at the beginning of this story, a second man came forward to accuse Clash of having sex with him while he was underage. Cecil Singleton filed a lawsuit in which he alleges that he met Clash on a gay phone line in the 1990′s, when he was just 15-years-old; he is suing for $5 million.
According to TMZ, he is only coming forward now, 20 years later, because “did not become aware that he had suffered adverse psychological and emotional effects from Kevin Clash’s sexual acts and conduct until 2012.”
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oh, so the clock struck midnight and and he has a flash back?
Hmmm!! it appears that way doesn’t it???? how many more of his little boy toys will come forth???? it is sad he has to resign, for my toddler nephews and young cousins the voice of Elmo will never be the same again, with young children they get over things pretty fast and adapt to something else.
He should have stayed his ass out of those gay chat rooms. Especially knowing that one day, one of those hook ups could and would cost you everything. Most people don’t have an issue with gays but there are some that revert to those gay chat rooms, casual sex hook ups and when your famous, common sense should factor in, this could come back to bit me in the ass (sic). Its obvious, that guy was a pretty boy prostitute and I highly doubt Kevin oinked him when he was a kid and someone has come up with a scheme that he could get more money. If Kevin WAS NOT guilty of this, he wouldn’t have never paid his yellow sissy looking ass $1.25 and we still don’t know if he even paid him the money. Now other vultures are looking for a big pay day, just like with the Bishop Eddie Long scandal. I got accused of taking money from a client and they tried to bring me up on misdemeanor theft of services and goods, well, I told the City Attorney to stick it and I wanted to have my day in court. Needless to say, once I proved the work was done and it was simply the client wasn’t happy with my services because the judge denied her bankruptcy, they dropped those charges big time. I was just ordered to give her a refund and it turned out, the City Attorney end up intercepting her money because she owed them…but I was prepared to fight because I knew I hadn’t stole anything…
This is really sad, this man’s private life have completely destroyed him publicly. I hope for their sakes those two girlie men are telling the truth. Since they claim they were underage, how come they are not pressing charges against Kevin? Money fixes everything huh?
Thiiiiiiiiiis iiiiiiiiiis fuuuuuuuuukd uuuuuuuuuuup! A tradition AND legend is ooooooovva!! SMH!!! I wonder if “he” owns the rights to Elmo/they will get someone else to play the character!? And lastly?, umm…….Did Mit Romney send that lil sissy over thurr!?? I thought he was after….”Big Bird”!!!!
I wonder how this is affecting his daughter? The first accuser, is trying to reverse, his reversal and NOW wants the money. I hope it blows over, if Woody Allen can screw/then marry his daughter he adopted with Mia Farrow and still be in demand, big gay Kev’ can too.
Ps…..I BET this mofo had that damn “puppet” ‘on when he was WITH the lil sissy! Hey!!!!!?, maybe dude is innocent, and “ELMO” is the offender!!!!!