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"&lt;img alt=\"1120-elmo-kevin-clash-getty\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/11/20/1120-elmo-kevin-clash-getty-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kevin Clash&lt;/strong&gt;, the voice of Elmo, has resigned from &lt;strong&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/strong&gt; ... in the immediate wake of a new lawsuit accusing him of having sex with an underage boy -- the second such allegation in 2 weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TMZ broke the story ... Clash is being &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2012/11/20/voice-of-elmo-kevin-clash-sued-allegations-sex-underage-boy-sesame-street/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sued by Cecil Singleton&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who claims he met Kevin in a gay phone chat back in '93 ... when he was 15 and Clash was 32.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong dir=\"ltr\" id=\"tinymce\" class=\"mceContentBody \" contenteditable=\"true\"&gt;Sesame Workshop&lt;/strong&gt; says, \"Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding Kevin&amp;#8217;s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want, and he has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job and has resigned from Sesame Street. This is a sad day for Sesame Street.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sesame Workshop had previously told TMZ, \"Elmo is bigger than any one person.\" That was in response to the initial underage sex accusation from Sheldon Stephens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As TMZ previously reported ... Stephens signed a $125,000 settlement with Clash, but has since expressed regret over signing the deal which required him to recant his claim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2012/11/12/elmo-sesame-street-celebrity-photos/\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"1112_elmo_through_the_years_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/11/12/1112-elmo-through-the-years-footer-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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