Simon Monjack, husband of the late Brittany Murphy, has decided that Warner Brothers are to be blamed for the death of his wife and is now planning a lawsuit against them within the next few days.
Even though the L.A. County Coroner have not released the official cause of death, Monjack is putting all the blame on Warner Bros saying that two weeks before her death the studio decided to fire her from the sequel to animated movie Happy Feet (she voiced the role of penguin Gloria in the original movie).
Monjack claims that she was beyond devastated and he and Murphy’s mother, Sharon, both believe that this caused the 32-year-old to take a heart attack. One month prior to Warner Bros deciding not to bring her back the actress was also let get from a movie called The Caller, which was shooting in Puerto Rico, because Monjack had been difficult on set and showing up drunk.
To this he says, “Every story needs a villain, and everyone has decided it is me, the reports about the Puerto Rican set are fantasy. I was never, ever drunk there. It’s a cruel town, Warner Brothers relied on conjecture and hearsay about the Puerto Rico film for why they canceled Brittany’s role in Happy Feet. You’re disposable as an actress or actor.”
The original Happy Feet grossed over $380 million but Monjak says they were lowballing his late wife by offering her $10,000 a day, with five-day minimum and maybe some box office bonuses if the movie did well.
Warner Brothers have now issued a statement to TMZ, “Any claim that Warner Bros. Pictures was somehow responsible for Brittany Murphy’s tragic death is demonstrably false, reprehensible, and defamatory. Despite press reports to the contrary, Warner Bros. Pictures and Ms. Murphy never entered into any deal for “Happy Feet 2,” and thus, there was not a contract to cancel.”
I don’t think that Simon Monjack should be suing Warner Brothers over Brittan Murphy’s death, what do you think? Does he stand a chance?
The estate of DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) has decided to take a giant dump on his memory and make some money from his death by filing a wrongful death suit against Clay Lacey Aviation, the company that chartered a plane that crashed, injuring DJ AM and friend Travis Barker.
The estate is suing Clay Lacey Aviation, Goodyear Tire, Learjet, and get this… the estates of both of the pilots, who died in the crash.
The suit claims that the crash directly led to AM’s death by forcing him to take various drugs for the pain of his burns and his emotional distress. Apparently it also forced him to do a lot of cocaine.
source: DJ AM — Wrongful Death Suit Over Drugs [TMZ]
Carrie Prejean went on Larry King last night to talk about her new book. Unfortunately, Larry King asked about her motivation to settle her lawsuit — she let him know how inappropriate he was.
Even though Larry dropped the subject by taking a phone call, Carrie Prejean still wanted no part of it and removed her microphone. However, instead of leaving the state, she just sat there with this goofy look on her face.
Does she have any idea how ridiculous she looked? Nobody is going to buy her stupid book.
Do you remember Carrie Prejean? She’s the semi hot former Miss California who caused a big stir after her anti-gay marriage remarks at the Miss USA pageant. She is now being sued for her boobs, kind of.
A little history lesson, after having her Miss California title taken off her, she filed a lawsuit against K2 Productions (which directs the Miss California USA pageant), Keith Lewis, Shanna Moakler and pageant publicist Roger Neal for slander, libel, religious discrimination, public disclosure of private facts and infliction of emotional distress for supposedly using her as a scapegoat for any negative attention they may have received over the anti-gay marriage position she took before she was named runner-up at this year’s Miss USA pageant.
Well, K2 Productions have just countersued her and what do they want? The money for her breast implants which cost around $5,200.
In a statement Lewis said “Had [Prejean] heeded the guidance of the Gospel of John, who admonished only those who are without sin to cast stones in judgment, she might have avoided this legal battle, we are saddened by the necessity to file a counter-claim today against Carrie Prejean, We are continuing to prepare for our upcoming telecast of the Miss California USA pageant on November 22nd, but the integrity of the Miss California USA organization and the values it represents requires us to respond and present the truth. Our claim is not about financial reward, and all profits awarded will be donated to a charity that promotes the values of our organization.”
Suing her for her the cost of her breast implants? This is just too funny.
source: Miss California Officials to Carrie Prejean: You Owe Us For Those Boobs! [E Online!]
A woman has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Dr. Phil McGraw, two producers and another doctor in what she alleges is a case of false imprisonment, practicing without a license, indecent exposure, battery, fraud and more.
Shirley Rae Dieu, 56, of Irvine, Calif., claims she was seeking therapy from Dr. Phil in his Hollywood office in 2007 when she allegedly was held captive and “forced to be in the same room with a completely live naked man while he exposed his entire naked body, genitals and all,” according to her filing.
Dieu further alleges she was deprived of sleep and food, “brainwashed” and “subjected to edited tapings depicting her as a different personality other than her own.” On Oct. 9, 2007, she claims Dr. Phil touched her left breast during a therapy session.
Representatives for McGraw did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“[Dr. Phil] is nothing like what he’s like on TV,” Dieu told PEOPLE by phone, adding that another woman will be joining her suit. “You have no idea what I and this other woman went through.”
It’s unclear how much she is seeking in damages but Dieu – who filed a malpractice suit against an Orange County hospital in 2002 and sued a car dealership in 2007 – is acting as her own attorney, and her filing is filled with misspellings and grammatical errors. Records also show she filed for bankruptcy in May 2008.
Looking at a naked man is torture and abuse? I think not, unless he was ugly =)
This is not the first time someone has tried to haul Dr. Phil, 59, into court. In 2006, he was sued by two men who claimed he implied they were suspects in the Natalee Holloway case. In 2005, he was sued by three consumers of a diet pill he endorsed.
source: Dr. Phil Slapped with Bizarre Brainwashing Lawsuit [people]
Annie Leibovitz has been sued. Allegedly, she’s stolen a background, and passed it off as her own shot.
Reportedly, Leibovitz hired Paolo Pizzetti last year to scout locations for a calendar she was shooting for the Italian coffee company LavAzza.
Leibovitz did indeed shoot photos for the calendar, which was supposed to be themed “The Italian Espresso Experience,” but she couldn’t actually make it to Italy to photograph the models.
No problem—she just shot her models in New York and then pasted them onto photos taken in scenic Italian backgrounds. No muss, no fuss, the check cleared.
But Pizzetti wasn’t in on the joke, apparently, and was shocked to find his background shot actually in the calendar—that’s the photo at issue.
source: Oh snap! Photographer Annie Leibovitz sued by Paolo Pizzetti, must repay Art Capital Group loan [NY Daily News]
Hugh Hefner’s estranged wife is suing the Playboy king, claiming he owes her more than $5 million.
Kimberly Conrad married Hef back in 1989. They had a prenup. Approximately 9 years later they split but never divorced. When they separated, they signed an amendment to the prenup which guaranteed Kimberly a ton of money.
For 10 years, Kimberly has been living in the house next to the Playboy mansion with their two sons. Everything was going swimmingly, until Hef decided to sell the house this year. According to the lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Hef allegedly announced he was not going to honor the agreement anymore and she had 9 months to get out of the house.
“I was surprised and saddened to learn of press reports that Kimberly Hefner, from whom I have been separated for over 10 years, has apparently filed suit claiming that I owe her $5 million.
Because neither I nor my attorneys have seen the suit I cannot comment on any of the specific allegations. However, contrary to what has been reported, I have always honored all of my obligations to Kimberly, and in fact I have provided her with substantial funds in excess of the agreed upon amount, and well in excess of any amount suggested or required under California law.
I am quite confident that when all the facts are known it will become clear that all of my financial obligations throughout the marriage have been generously dealt with.”
The money issues are complicated, but the bottom line — Kim says Hef owes her more than $5 mil.
Even though her movie Pledge This flopped at the box office, Paris Hilton doesn’t owe a single dime to movie investors who were suing her.
U.S. District judge Federico Moreno just announced in a Miami courtroom that Hilton won’t owe any of the $8.3 million she was being sued for, saying that “one never knows how much a movie may make.”
The investors for the movies said Hilton didn’t promote the movie so they decided to sue her for $8.3 million because they believe the movie would have made that much at the box office.
This doesn’t mean she doesn’t have to hand money over though, while she doesn’t have to pay for that – she may just have to give them some of the $1 million fee she received for acting (I use the word acting very lightly) in the movie.
Hilton said she did all she could in order for the movie to do well but the producers were amateur and kept sending her last minute appearances that conflicted with her schedule.
The judge agreed and said “the court finds compelling evidence in the record that ‘Pledge This!’ lost money because the film’s inexperienced producers hastily cobbled together a wholly inadequate marketing plan, they sent scattershot requests to their principal star in the hopes that she could find time to promote a sinking ship.”
Paris Hilton seems to get off with everything doesn’t she?
“Girls Gone Wild” producer Joe Franciswent wild in a court deposition this year, and he’s being handed a hefty bill as a result.
Unimpressed with his antics, District Judge Michelle Leavitt ruled in favor of Wynn Las Vegas and ordered the soft-porn video mogul to pay the Strip casino a $2 million gambling debt, which, with interest and court costs, could soar to $3 million.
In court papers, the Wynn’s lawyers argued that Francis improperly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer even the most innocuous questions during the nearly daylong deposition in February.
And several times during the deposition Francis openly passed gas, further disrespecting the legal proceeding, the Wynn lawyers charged. Said Wynn’s lawyer,
“As the court will see from reviewing the video clips of Francis’ deposition, his utter contempt for the judicial system is apparent, including his repeated attempts to disrupt the deposition with flatulence.”
Francis, who is expected to appeal Leavitt’s decision, is still facing felony charges in Las Vegas stemming from his failure to pay back the Wynn, and he has a trial pending on the tax evasion charges in California.
source: ‘Girls Gone Wild’ producer ordered to pay Wynn millions [las vegas sun]
A police officer in Ohio claims the Police Department defamed and harassed him by having “a detailed and invasive non-criminal investigation” into him and his family shortly after his wife posed in Playboy magazine (photo below).
Former Det. Ronald Fithen is also claiming that they denied him the right to take leave to drill with Army National Guard, badmouthed him to Army National Guard officials and denied him paid leave to drill with his unit.
Filthen and his wife both filed legal papers suing the city, police department and Police Chief Dennis Murphy.
He says he was demoted after he filed a worker’s compensation claim and requested medical leave on the advice of his doctor, because of “intense, debilitating, and unwarranted work stressors.”
You would think having your wife pose in Plabyoy would make you very popular in work, especially in a police station.
An advertisement produced for Sprite in Germany, according to Current TV, has apparently been banned from the air, for pretty obvious reasons.
It combines oral sex and the desire for a refreshing Sprite to create a big finish that has to be seen to be believed.
According to Coca-Cola?
This video was NOT produced by or for The Coca-Cola Company or any of its brands. The use of our Sprite brand in this video is completely unauthorized. We are doing everything we can to determine the source of the video and will take appropriate legal action.
Oh but of course. The source is SillyDogFilms via YouTube – Upon search of the channel, I found this info on SillyDogFilms:
Age: 25
Joined: July 16, 2009
About Me: SIlly Dog Films is a New York based director’s collective. We’re here to show our work and hopefully you’re here to see it.
My guess? They thought Coca-Cola wouldn’t care about a “Banned German Ad.” Poor guy, he just joined on July 16th and already has his first lawsuit. A big one too.
Paris Hilton decided to go for a staged photo op in her bikini on a beach in Dubaii while she is there filming a new season of her MTV show My New BFF.
This is nothing new for Paris posing in her bikini, the only problem is that when you’re in Dubaii you’re not supposed to wear bikinis as it is against the law.
The funny thing about this whole thing is, producers warned her ass not to do it and the day before wearing her two piece she “made a big public speech, saying how much she loved the Middle East and respected its culture.”
Of course as she always does when she breaks the law, Paris gets off without as much as a warning. Other Westerners have been jailed for this in the past, why couldn’t get arrest Paris and throw her in one of them dirty jails where nobody speaks English?
It could be the lighting but is it just me that sees her face is white, half of her body is tanned and her stomach looks like fake tan is having a bad reaction to the sea water? Or that could just be how Paris Hilton’s body is from all the herpes.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck ripped off a woman by plagiarizing her disease material — so claims Susan Hassett, who fired off a letter to “The View” host just before suing her.
TMZ obtained the letter — in which Susan claims she sent Elisabeth a book called “Living with Celiac Disease” back in April of ‘08. Thirteen months later, Susan says Hasselbeck published the same book with a new title: “The G Free Diet-A Gluten Free Survival Guide.”
Susan compares chapters and lines. Here are some highlights.
Susan’s Book Chapter 1: What is Celiac Disease?
Hasselbeck Chapter 2: What is Celiac Disease?
Susan’s tips: “Shop in the outer isles of the supermarket.”
Hasselbeck’s tips: “Food in the outer isles of the supermarket.”
And the comparisons go on and on.
Hasselbeck recently discovered she’s long suffered from celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder linked to gluten proteins found in wheat, barley and rye. The disease can cause, among other things, chronic diarrhea and fatigue.
source: Falmouth woman sues Elisabeth Hasselbeck over book [boston herald]
Eddie Van Halen is suing Nike over a sneaker they just launched sporting a red, white and black pattern that Van Halen claims is his trademark design.
Eddie’s company, ELVH Inc, filed a lawsuit last week citing copyright infringement, in which they are seeking monetary retribution and “the destruction of all footwear.”
Even if it does look like the same design as on his old guitar — the lawsuit is petty and ridiculous!
source: So Shoe Me — Van Halen Takes Nike to Court [tmz]
Victoria Principal apparently has taken her role on “Dallas” a little too seriously — she’s been sued for allegedly pulling a gun on a maid.
The woman who played Pamela Ewing is being sued byMaribel Banegas, the former maid at Victoria’s Malibu home. Banegas claims she had taken the dog for a walk — when she returned home to an enraged Victoria who couldn’t understand why it took so long.
Banegas explained the dog wouldn’t poop, but Victoria wasn’t pickin’ up what the maid was puttin’ down. According to the suit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, Victoria fired Maribel on the spot. Maribel asked for her final check and Victoria went upstairs, allegedly only to come down with a gun, “which she then pointed and aimed” at the maid.
The suit claims Victoria “verbally threatened to kill plaintiff”… and asked another housekeeper who was present “to stand aside in order that she could kill the plaintiff.”
The maid claims assault, false imprisonment and emotional distress. She wants unspecified damages.
Oh, by the way, the dog’s name is Mei-Ling, and we’re told it looks like a Shih Tzu … seriously.
To this he says, “Every story needs a villain, and everyone has decided it is me, the reports about the Puerto Rican set are fantasy. I was never, ever drunk there. It’s a cruel town, Warner Brothers relied on conjecture and hearsay about the Puerto Rico film for why they canceled Brittany’s role in Happy Feet. You’re disposable as an actress or actor.”
