Sean Penn has revealed in a recent interview that he has a Barbie-like voodoo doll of US columnist and best-selling author, Ann Coulter, which he frequently abuses and attacks whenever angry, following her insensitive views about Penn's father, Leo Penn, who died of lung cancer in 1998.
Sean Penn owns a voodoo doll designed to look like Ann Coulter
The actor's anger towards the political commenter, arose from the effects of her 2003 best-selling book, 'Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism', in which she attempts to provide a revisionist look at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, supporting his views for the blacklisting of major Hollywood celebrities for their socialist views, and putting forward the idea that communist spies really had infiltrated the US Government. Penn's father, Leo Penn, had been a member and supporter of Hollywood trade unions, and chose to stand up to the McCarthy witch hunt, leading to he himself being blacklisted.
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