Metadish, Fresh from NYC » Akon http://www.metadish.com News, Media, Gossip and Celebrity Served Up Fresh from NYC Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Gwen Stefani and Akon Get Dumped by Verizon http://www.metadish.com/2007/05/09/gwen-stefani-and-akon-get-dumped-by-verizon/ http://www.metadish.com/2007/05/09/gwen-stefani-and-akon-get-dumped-by-verizon/#comments Wed, 09 May 2007 15:48:46 +0000 admin http://metadish.com/?p=3193 Gwen Stefani The Sweet EscapeIt seems that one sure fire way to lose your corporate sponsors is to have your opening act caught simulating sex on stage with an underage girl while being videotaped.  Go figure.

Verizon, which was the main sponsor for Gwen Stefani’s Sweet Escape tour, has decided to end their sponsorship after a disturbing video surfaced of Akon on stage simulating crazy monkey sex on stage with a 15-year-old girl.  Akon’s performance in Trinidad wasn’t part of the Sweet Escape tour but his association with the tour and this video was apparently enough to give Verizon cold feet on sponsoring the tour at all.

Stefani’s manager Jim Guerinot wasn’t pleased with Verizon’s decision.  “Akon has been a perfect gentleman on this tour. His show has at best been a PG show. Children of all ages have been attending. We have had no complaints — nothing but satisfied people. And I would say that we’re shocked that Verizon would drop Gwen Stefani as part of this whole debate.”

Unfortunately, the people Akon is “satisfying” are underage girls…on stage.

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