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Date Posted: 15:48:25 04/28/02 Sun
Author: Ronald McDonald
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Puffy, hold me down baby...

From the New York Post...

By JARED PAUL STERN with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
April 22, 2002 --
Combs: send out the clowns
CLOWNS are no laughing matter to Sean "Puffy" Combs.

The swaggering rap royal is widely reported to suffer from coulrophobia, an irrational fear of the red-nosed, oversized-shoe-wearing, greasepainted circus buffoons.

There have even been reports that Combs has gone as far as demanding a "no-clown clause" in his performance contracts.

Puffy�s mouthpiece, Nathalie Moar, insists that he�s not a clown-coward - but we�ll wager that the rough-and-tumble rapresario will get nowhere near the clown convention that�s taking place in upstate Saratoga Springs.

And it�s a good bet that the baggy-costumed mirthmakers massing at The Clowns of America International Convention 2002 would mow down Puffy in their tiny cars if they had half a chance.

Convention chairman Paul Kleinberger, whose nom-de-clown is "Fuddi-Duddy," accused Combs of practicing discrimination by demanding a no-clown clause in his contracts.

"That would be like me saying I refuse to entertain when a rapper is in the audience," Kleinberger fumed to PAGE SIX.

"That�s certainly discrimination. Just because Combs has been a high-profile entertainer for the past few years doesn�t make it OK for him to include something like that in his contract."

Beverly Hills shrink-to-the-stars Carole Lieberman tells us that Puffy�s condition most likely springs from a frightening clown encounter when he was a child.

"It usually has to do with adults assuming that all little kids love clowns and forcing their children to respond positively to clowns," Lieberman said.

"To a child, looking up at this big painted face can seem kind of grotesque. There�s also kind of a hostile edge to clowns that children can pick up on. I think that a lot of people who are clowns put on a happy face to hide the unhappiness behind it."

But Kleinberger charged that Lieberman was simply indulging in clown-bashing.

"Psychiatrists and psychologists say all kinds of things to justify their degree," he snapped. "Most of these people have no practical experience with clowns. Children are naturally drawn to bright, colorful characters. If the mother or father says the children are scared of clowns, it�s usually the parents that have a fear of clowns."

While the clowntroversy may never be resolved, Puffy and his fellow coulrophobes can find a safe haven in ihateclowns.com, a Web site that boasts the motto "The No Clown Zone."

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