PETA To Aretha: We'll Stop Your Foreclosure If You Quit Fur

[Omaha Steve]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008



Internet sources revealed docs last week showing Aretha Franklin is reportedly facing foreclosure on her Michigan home, for approximately $19,000 in backed taxes. (See, Aretha, you should've backed the presidential candidate that wanted to abolish the IRS! Ahem, ahem!) PETA has been stepping up their anti-fur protests - yesterday, we posted an article on their new video game blasting clothing giant Burberry for using fur. And now, Ingrid Newkirk with People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals is making a gutsy and generous move: PETA is offering to pay Aretha Franklin's $19k in taxes and save the Michigan home, if Aretha will promise to stop wearing fur.



PETA posted in their blog yesterday, Well, despite the fact that we've had the occasional run-in with the Queen of Soul, we're willing to bury the hatchet and even help her out of her recent financial troubles by paying her $19,000...provided that she agrees to stop wearing fur and donate her unwanted furs to PETA as Mariah Carey and Kim Cattrall have done.

Mariah Carey did that? Go Mariah! I think Aretha should go for it. What would it hurt, ReRe, to go faux? This is a win-win! Take it!

And this: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010458018

Shannon Moore - Celebrity News Service

Detroit, MI (CNS) - The animal rights activists group People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) have offered to pay the queen of soul's $19,000 tax bill if she agrees to stop wearing fur.

Ingrid Newkirk, the president of the group, has written to Franklin and offered to help the soul legend avoid foreclosure on her Detroit mansion if Franklin hands over her collection of fur coats.

In the letter from to Franklin, Newkirk writes, "We would like to help you out by paying the approximate $19,000 in back taxes that you owe- if you'll agree to save animals from hideous suffering and death by promising never to wear fur again and donating your old furs to PETA."

She concludes the letter by writing, "Our offer is a win-win situation: You get to keep your home, and animals get to keep their lives. We are rooting for you to please give animals the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that they deserve by giving up fur."

PETA has reportedly been trying for months to get Franklin to give up her extensive collection of famous fur coats. Franklin has until March 31 to pay her debt and save her home.

[flvegan]

1. This thread has "fantastic!" written all over it.

:popcorn:

[dawgman]

2. you got to love the add

for fur at the bottom..."smart" ads eh?

[malaise]

3. So what happened to all her money

Royalties etc?
Give it up Aretha -looks like you have enough warmth around that body anyway.
And queen of soul with that lovely voice, I beg you to give up that awful dress and wear something that suits your size.
Good fugging grief it looks gross.

[msongs]

4. the answer to your question kinda obvious nt

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. If she does'nt

take them up on this offer.....I will lose all............get ready for it.............






R-E-S-P-E-C-T


for Ms Franklin.

Seriously, give it up Aretha. How could you wear fur these days?

[defendandprotect]

6. Now that's what I call a good deal --- !!!

[Laughing Mirror]

7. How does PETA recycle furs it takes off peoples' hands?

Anybody know?

Hard to believe that Aretha Franklin cannot come up with the money to pack her back taxes. What's happened to her? Has she gone senile? She's not that old.

[LeftyMom]

9. They give it to animal shelters that use it as bedding for orphaned animals

and donate it to homeless shelters, iirc.

[Laughing Mirror]

10. homeless shelters?

If Aretha doesn't pay those taxes she may find herself in one of those homeless shelters, wearing the very white bath-robe-looking fur she gave PETA.

If not, it looks as if it would surely make plenty of animal bedding for the orphaned animals.

[shireen]

8. i wonder ... if PETA extended that generous offer to many more people facing foreclosure,

they may solve the housing crisis! :P