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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.
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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]
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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 by Maribel 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.
UPDATE — Victoria filed her own lawsuit against the maid. Click here to read it.
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Oprah Winfrey just had another Aha! Moment — when she decided to wage a legal war against an insurance company using her signature catchphrase.
Just a few days ago, Oprah’s lawyers fired off a cease and desist letter to Mutual of Omaha demanding they shut down their plans to run a gigantic advertising campaign with the slogan, “Official sponsor of the aha moment.”
In the letter, sent April 21, Oprah’s peeps claim they have the rights to the “Aha Moment” slogan and they threatened to sue because O doesn’t want Mutual to mislead her fans into thinking she’s associated with them.
But Mutual of Omaha is fighting back with a lawsuit, claiming that even if Oprah had trademark rights to the phrase, she “abandoned” those rights by failing to “police their alleged mark” when other businesses used it in the past.
In the suit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Nebraska, Mutual asks the judge to rule that they have the right to use the phrase in their campaign.
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CSI: Miami star David Caruso has been hit with a bombshell lawsuit by Liza Marquez, the ex girlfriend he dumped while she was pregnant.
Liza filed a multi-count suit on David in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday. Counts include: Breach of Contract/Settlement Agreement, Fraud, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress (Domestic Abuse).
Stunning allegations in the lawsuit include:
·Caruso asking her to terminate her first pregnancy and then telling her “I guess for now you’ll just be a birthing cow.”
·Caruso accusing her of wanting to sleep with Billy Dee Williams
·Marquez discovering that Caruso has a huge 1970s porno stash hidden in his bedroom.
·Caruso “raising his hand” to Marquez while she was pregnant with their second child
·Third parties telling Marquez that Caruso described her as mentally ill.
Marquez says Caruso officially ended their relationship in October, 2007 when she came home from the hospital after giving birth to their second child and was served with a paternity action! She claims there was also a note from Caruso’s attorney, stating “reconciliation is not an option.”
The couple stopped living together shortly before Marquez gave birth.
Well look what we have here, Heidi Klum is looking stunningly hot in in this photoshoot for TV Digital Magazine.
I’m sure some of these photographs have been used before, but does it really matter? If you’re complaining then I thhink your crazy, as far as I am concerned complaining about these pictures being used again is like complaining about finding money twice in a row.
In other news, Heidi has urged fans that they should go protest outside Harvey Weinstein’s home in order to see the sixth season of her reality show Project Runway.
Even though they shot the finale and chose the winner for the sixth season at New York Fashion Week last month, the show has still to see the day of light. With previous season, the show would have started earning before Fashion Week and then the finale would be after it.
Weinstein’s production company and NBC Universal are involved in a lawsuit because NBC feels screwed over after Weinstein sold the rights for the sixth season to Lifetime Network, instead of giving Bravo (part of NBC) the chance to renew their contract as Project Runway has been on Bravo since it began airing.
Heidi says “I think that people should be demonstrating outside of Harvey Weinstein’s house. If it were up to me, it would be on by now.”
Well, I hope something happens because I need my Project Runway fix and miss hearing Heidi Klum saying “Auf Weidersehen!”
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A lingerie football league player is suing her ex-lover after he allegedly posted nude pictures of her on the Internet and emailed them to her mother.
 * Melissa Berry is shown here on the Tampa Breeze roster page. Berry is suing her boyfriend for the release of nude photographs of her on Myspace and via email. Melissa Berry, a 24-year-old rookie linebacker with the Tampa Breeze franchise of the Lingerie Football League, is seeking $15,000 in unspecified damages from her ex-boyfriend Mark Dawson, a 45-year-old safe dating expert, whom she dated earlier this fall.
Click here to see photos of the Lingerie Football League.
According to Berry’s lawsuit against Dawson, she took nude photographs of herself with his cell phone. Another photo of her engaged in a “particularly private, intimate sexual act,” was also allegedly taken without her permission, the Tampa Tribune said.
 A screen grab from the roster page of the San Diego Seduction franchise of the Lingerie Football League (LFL). Berry claims that she never intended on the photos being shown to anyone else. But shortly after their break-up, Dawson showed two of the pictures to Berry’s friends at a nightclub, the Tribune said.
Berry then destroyed Dawson’s phone. In return, Dawson sent a text message to Berry’s mother on Nov. 10 demanding $500 for the phone’s damages, or he would publicly release the photos. Berry refused, and Dawson then posted the pictures and emailed them to her mother.
“I could have had her arrested and I didn’t,” Dawson said, defending his actions. “All I wanted was this phone back. I am a decent guy … It’s girls like this I fight against in the work that I do.
Click here to read more from the Tampa Tribune.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France has been awarded $57,500 in damages after she sued Pardon, a clothing company who used her 1993 nude photo on their white canvas shopping bags.
The former model, now married to the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, posed nude for photographer Michel Comte in an an anti-AIDS campaign back in 1993.
The lawsuit was filed last week and her lawyer said, “neither Mrs. Carla Bruni nor the photographer has given consent for the use of the photo, [they] did not want this goal to be hijacked.”
The owner of Pardon, Peter Mertes, said that they had removed 10,000 bags and had planned to burn all of the bags, on the courts decision for the money to be awarded he said they would appeal the money - because the sum was too large for a “small blunder.”
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The judge said “the unauthorized use of the image of Carla Bruni caused her moral and economic damage.” All money awarded is expected to be donated to charity, according to her lawyers.
I always feel unsympathetic when old images of celebrities are leaked, but since it was for charity then I’m glad Carla Bruni-Sarkozy won the money.
Richard Dreyfuss is suing his father and uncle for $4 million, according to the Guardian.
The Oscar winner alleges that he loaned them close to $1 million back in 1984, and they’ve never paid him back. Apparently the economy’s hitting everyone hard.
Travis Barker is looking for justice.
In his first postcrash TV news interview, the musician tells E! News exclusively why he decided to file a lawsuit over the plane crash that killed four people and left Barker and DJ AM badly burned.
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“I wouldn’t have been in the state I was in if I wasn’t in the crash. I wouldn’t have third-degree burns all over my body or be prohibited to do certain things. I can’t go swimming. I can’t do some of the things that normal people can do. I didn’t ask for that to happen.”
DJ AM, who is also continuing his recovery from the Sept. 19 incident, is not part of the lawsuit. Said Barker:
“I can’t speak for him—I think everyone just has different attorneys.”
The drummer says he doesn’t know if he’ll win his lawsuit.
“I don’t know. I just think positive. I mean, I think so—if something goes wrong that’s not supposed to go wrong or you fall victim of it, I think you should be compensated.”
He says he’s not just speaking for himself, either. “I lost two friends in the accident. Nothing can bring them back or what I lost in the accident.”
Michael Jackson is being sued again, this time by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hamad Bin Isa Khalifa, an Arab prince, who says he gave Jackson $7 million, a Rolls Royce worth over $260,000 and built him a recording studio as an advance for two albums, a stage show and an autobiography.
The king of pop claims the money was only a gift and doesn’t owe the sheikh anything, but in a statement read to a judge in the London High Court’s the sheikh said “I would never pay anybody millions of dollars for nothing in return.”
The sheikh also claims that the money raised by the music would benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Meanwhile it seems Jackson might not even attend the court hearing if he and his legal team have their way. Apparently the singer is too sick to travel and wants to give his testimony by video link from the United States.
His lawyer Robert Englehart said “it would be unwise for him to travel, given what’s he’s got now.” But the sheikh’s lawyer, Bankim Thanki, said the evidence was very unsatisfactory” and Jackson’s illness could be treated with a bandage “if the diagnosis is positive.”
Thanki added that “it’s not the first time a sick note has been presented by Mr. Jackson,” which is very true, Jackson has a habit of getting sick during court trials.
Oh, Martha Stewart is being sued also. Is it me or does a different celebrity get sued everyday?
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s rep, Todd Shemarya, is being sued by former employee Heather Devlin for sexual harassment.
Devlin claims that Shemarya fostered a hostile work environment by exposing her to internet porn, “parading around naked,” and viciously mocking his celebrity clients, which also include Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Aniston.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles’ Superior Court, details an incident in which two vintage Cartier watches intended for Pitt and Aniston during their marriage where taken by Shemarya and given to a friend as a wedding gift.
In another disturbing incident, Shemarya showed Devlin a banned 1997 Brad Pitt issue of Playgirl and ridiculed the size of his penis while calling Aniston an “ugly bitch.”
Devlin was fired after nine years as Shemarya’s assistant after the agent hired his lovers. Devlin’s attorney, Keith A. Fink, summarizes the suit,
“Ms. Devlin was exposed to a constant barrage of offensive sexual, racial and religious comments. TSA’s celebrity clients would usually be the center of his ridicule.”
On the other side, Shemarya denies the allegations, saying that Devlin is just a “disgruntled” former employee now trying to “extort money.”
Oprah sure does get a lot of lawsuits thrown at her doesn’t she? Today is no exception, it seems an ex employee of the talk show queen is suing her for a whopping $180 million.
The Associated Press reports that Keifer Bonvillain, a man from Louisiana is suing Oprah because she and her attorney allegedly made false statements that lead the FBI to arrest him on extortion charges.
In 2006, Keifer Bonvillain recorded telephone converstions with an employee of Harpo, Winfrey’s production company, and threatened to publish a book based on the recordings. Police nabbed Bonvillain after another Harpo employee agreed to pay him $1.5 million and wired $3,000 as a down payment.
Bonvillain told the FBI that he had publishing offers for the supposed tell-all that ranged from $500,000 to $3 million and insisted in the lawsuit that he had deliberately avoided doing anything against the law. Despite what seemed to be a solid case against him, the Feds agreed to drop the charges on the condition that Bonvillain undergo drug testing, perform 50 hours of community service and pay back the $3,000 in restitution.
In the lawsuit, which he is also suing the FBI, he says “there was substantial damage done to my name and reputation on a world level, the extent of my damages is vast.”
Chip Babcock, attorney for Harpo Productions, denies the allegations and says he welcomes the challenge to prove Bonvillain wrong. “And we know that this whole episode started when the plaintiff wiretapped a Harpo employee in California,” he said. “We advised [Bonvillain] that we believe that wiretapping was illegal, and this case will give us an opportunity to determine whether we were right about that.”
I really doubt anything will come from this lawsuit, she will hire a team and make this disappear within a matter of weeks.
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Dr. Phil is being sued by the memorabilia dealer involved in O.J. Simpson’s hotel-room robbery.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the “Dr. Phil” show, Philip McGraw himself and Stage 29 Media, Thomas Riccio claims that his comments on the show were edited to twist their meaning. Riccio filmed an interview Oct. 6 explaining his involvement with the holdup, three days after a Las Vegas jury found Simpson guilty of 12 charges.
While Riccio admits he led Simpson to the hotel room where the robbery took place, he insists that the “Dr. Phil” show spliced his comments to make him appear to be the one who orchestrated the robbery.
The suit alleges fraud, defamation, portrayal in a false light and emotional distress, claiming he was referred to on the show as the “ringleader of this crime,” “the shady dealmaker” and “a puppetmaster who would sell his soul for a coin.”
Riccio says that McGraw also tried to paint him as the one who “set O.J. Simpson up and told people to bring guns into the room” but then edited out Riccio’s denial of the statement and replaced it with a shot of him nodding his head, supposedly in agreement.
Well if you go on the Dr.Phil show you should expect editing like that.
source: Dr. Phil slapped with suit connected to O.J. Simpson case [ny daily news]
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