Rn’B singer Erykah Badu has been fined and sentenced over her now infamous stripping sequence as she filmed a music video on the site of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination in Dallas, Texas. The 39 year old had been filming a video for her single Window Seat in which she stripped naked and ran through Dealey Plaza before collapsing to the ground naked. In a plea bargain Badu was fined $US500 and sentenced to six months probation rather than slipping a $50 note in her garter after a private dance.
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