“Singer Linda Ronstadt was not asked to leave a Las Vegas casino Saturday after she endorsed Michael Moore’s controversial film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ the Tucson native told the Tucson Citizen yesterday.

And she was not booed off the stage by a concert crowd that had erupted in mayhem, she said.

Speaking by phone from San Francisco, Ronstadt said that she left the Aladdin Resort & Casino immediately after the concert and was not aware that the management was irritated by her comments until an hour after she left the show.

Aladdin management declined to comment on the incident yesterday, referring the Citizen to a statement issued Monday.

The statement reads, in part:

‘Ms. Ronstadt was hired to entertain the guests of the Aladdin, not to espouse her political views. In an effort to diffuse the situation, Linda Ronstadt was asked to leave the property immediately following her performance.'” (Tucson Citizen )