Erykah Badu Pays Fine, Gets Probation for Stripping
Did her strip traumatize children?
Erykah Badu won't be getting naked in public again anytime soon. The R&B singer has paid a $500 fine and will serve six months probation for a music video she shot in which she gets completely naked in downtown Dallas.
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Badu, 39, has already paid the fine and will be under supervision for the next six months after being cited for disorderly conduct by police.
In the guerrila-style video for "Window Seat," the outspoken singer saunters through the city in a strange pedestrian reenactment of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Badu can be seen removing her clothing article by article, until finally she is completely naked and collapses near the spot where JFK was shot.
Numerous passers-by can be seen in the video as well, most with looks of disbelief at the sight of a singing, naked woman walking down the street. Unfortunately, a number of children were also witness to the scene. One mother filed the complaint after claiming her kids were forcibly exposed to the public nudity.
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"There were children there," Badu said on Twitter after the incident. "i prayed they wouldnt b traumatized."


