Los Angeles, April 17, 2008 – Mariah Carey let her loyal fans down in a big way on Thursday evening at a Universal City autograph session in support of her new album, E=MC2 , which was released on Tuesday.  Fans booed the top-selling recording artist when she finally entered the Hard Rock Café at 8:30 P.M., a full two and a half hours after the scheduled 6 P.M. start of the event at which Mariah was to sign autographs for 1,000 people who had purchased the CD.   Many of them had waited in line for up to eight hours to meet their idol.  At 1:30 A.M., after signing autographs for five hours, Mariah simply got up and left without saying a word, leaving about 100 fans who had bought her CD and waited all that time without an autograph.  Her new album played continuously throughout the session, and one person joked that maybe she just couldn’t listen to it one more time. 

UPDATE 4/22 - In response to complaints after Mariah left fans empty handed on Thursday, organizers announced that they will arrange to have autographs sent to CD purchasers bearing the blue wristband from the event.

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