Festivals dump Cee Lo Green after rape comment
Cee Lo Green has been dropped from his last remaining performance dates as outrage builds over the R& B star’s treatment of a woman and subsequent comments on rape.
The BayFest Music Festival in Alabama — the last concert date listed on Green’s website — said late on Monday that it had cancelled his Oct 4 performance.
Green’s remarks “are contrary to the beliefs and conscience” of the festival, organisers said in a statement.
The singer was earlier dropped by a Washington festival organised for troops by the US military — which itself has faced accusations that it is not doing more to stop rape — and by the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana.
The TBS network also cancelled his reality show “The Good Life.”
Green — a five-time Grammy winner whose song “Crazy” with Gnarls Barkley was a massive hit in 2006 — was in August put on probation for giving a 33-yearold woman Ecstasy without her knowledge.
Green had gone with the woman from a Los Angeles restaurant to her hotel. Prosecutors did not charge him with rape of an intoxicated person, citing lack of evidence.
Green later wrote a series of tweets, including, “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!”
The singer later deleted the tweets and apologised for “comments attributed to me” on Twitter. — AFP