Some say that imitation the best form of flattery but Kim Kardashian definitely doesn’t believe in this phrase because she has decided to launch a lawsuit against Old Navy because they used a Kim look-alive in a recent television ad campaign.
On the left is Kardashian’s doppelganger and on the right is the real Kim. TMZ report that Kardashian filed a lawsuit against the clothing company claiming that “they intentionally used a look-alike in an effort to dupe the public into thinking Kim was affiliated with Old Navy.
Kim even took to her Twitter page to write about her look-alive, whose name is Melissa Molinaro, she said “@CBSNEWS reports that Old Navy’s Super CUTE star looks like @kimkardashian. #LOL. What do you think?”
Kardashian claims that the ads have damaged her finances so much that she asking them from anywhere in the range of $15 to $20 million. Seriously how delusional and desperate is she?
These ads have been on TV for months so I don’t understand why exactly she is only launching a lawsuit now, maybe to get a bit of publicity? I wouldn’t be surprised. Here is the video for you to see for yourself:
They definitely look similar but there is no way this has damaged Kardashian’s bank balance by $20 million. What do you think?
Anytime I find myself reading about Andy Dick it’s because he is in some kind of trouble and this time it’s no different because he is being sued by a man for rubbing his genitals in his face and the whole thing was caught on video.
If you skip to about 3:20 in the above clip you can see Andy climbing up beside the man in the audience and then lifting up his skirt and rubbing his crotch at the mans face at a comedy club in Dallas.
Now TMZ are reporting that the man, whos name is Robert Tucker, is now suing Andy for this incident that happened way back in December 2010. The lawsuit says that since this happened he’s “been harassed and ridiculed by the workers he supervises as well as his management peers.”
Surely if he was going to sue Andy Dick he would have done it closer to the time this all happened? Anyways he is suing for unspecified damages, which means he will probably get a shit load of cash.
source: Andy Dick Sued For Rubbing His Last Name On A Dude’s Face [Dlisted]
So there was a sex doll of Miley Cyrus being sold but if you were hoping to get your hands on one you’re too late because they are completely sold out and they may not be able to make anymore because Miley is apparently considering legal action.
The sex doll was called ‘Finally Miley’ and was made by Pipedream Products, who boast that the doll has “3 achey love holes”, but as I said above it’s all sold out after going on sale in some sex shops and on Amazon.com for $27.49. Kevin Johnson, who works for the company, says:
“We are completely sold out already — it’s been on the market for less than 48 hours. We haven’t received a cease and desist letter from her attorneys yet, but I have seen those rumors circling online. That probably means it will happen soon enough.”
Miley isn’t the first celebrity to have a sex doll made of her because Beyonce, Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Lady GaGa and more have all had dolls made up but most of them have been removed for “legal reasons”.
I don’t really know how I feel about this, on one hand I don’t really see the big deal about it and the celebrities should maybe feel honored but on the other hand I think it’s kinda disturbing. Anyway the photos of Miley Cyrus below are from the Kids’ Choice Awards last night.
Though it’s been four years since model Anna Nicole Smith‘s untimely death, she’s in the spotlight once again — this time thanks to an opera about her life.
The “rags-to-riches” story of Smith’s rise to fame — titled ‘Anna Nicole‘ — debuted at London’s Royal Opera House last night to a sold-out crowd.
“She is fame incarnate,” the show’s lyricist, Richard Thomas, told CNN about Smith and her life story.
“It is a rags-to-riches story and a cautionary tale all chucked into a blender and whooshed up with three bags of sugar and two bottles of tequila and poured over a two-hour time frame.”
However, Larry Birkhead says Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate is threatening legal action.
Birkhead spoke with TMZ and said the producers never contacted Anna’s estate or him. They also didn’t offer Larry an advance screening. Larry says the opera is like “a sleazy tabloid.”
Smith famously married multimillionaire J. Howard Marshall, who was 62 years her senior, and endured a lengthy court battle for his estate. She passed away suddenly due to an accidental drug overdose in 2007 at age 39.
Cathy Cruz Marrero remembers her foot striking the base of the fountain as she held her purse and clutched the cell phone she’d been using to text.
The phone popped out of her hand and landed in the water as Cathy began her plunge into the Berkshire Mall fountain.
“I saw the water coming at me, I could see the pennies and nickels at the bottom of the fountain and then I was in it,” said Cathy, 49, a Reading resident who works in a store at the Wyomissing mall.
The fall on Jan. 12 was caught on security camera video that has brought her unwanted fame since it was posted Friday to YouTube and Facebook, where it has been viewed at least 1.6 million times. Many media outlets worldwide have shown the footage.
Cathy is mortified by the incident and both laughs and cries when she talks about it.
“My issue is I don’t think security was professional because they didn’t send anyone to check on me until 20 minutes later and I had already left,” Cathy said Wednesday in her first interview since the accident.
In the video, the voices of people laughing as they watch the security video footage can be heard.
Cathy said they are mall security personnel.
“Instead of laughing, they should have said, ‘Is she OK?’ and been down there right away to check on me,” she said.
Her attorney, James M. Polyak of Reading, said he plans to conduct an investigation into what happened.
Nobody knew it was you, until you came forward. Dumb.
Brett Favre just got fined $50,000 for sexting Jen Sterger but he is back in hot water and once again it’s to do with him being a sex fiend, this time he is being sued for sexual harassment by two women.
Good morning American reports that two former massage therapists for the New York Jets, Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole, both filed a lawsuit against Favre, the Jets and Lisa Ripi, a woman who hires massage therapists for the team.
Scavo claims that the NFL star treated her like a “hanging slab of meat” and that he once text her and another, unidentified, woman asking if they would be up for a threesome because he is all alone. A lawyer for the two women says the reason they are filing a lawsuit is because after this was all brought to the attention of Ripi they were never offered work again.
The lawsuit then goes on to say that Ripi wrote “for sure feel horrible that u had to go thru that [with] a pervert…however I truly wish you would’ve come forward at the time it happened. I’ve been up there 13 years without anything that happened to me on tmz…cause it was handled internally the way it should be.”
Which to mean basically means she would gladly stand by while all these women are harassed, and possibly raped, but they better keep their mouth shut because if they say anything – they will be fired.
This is all hearsay at the moment but lets face it – we all know this kinda stuff goes on behind the scenes in the world of sports. These athletes have so much power when it comes to shutting up the women which is why they don’t really care about harassing them. I’m willing to bet more allegations will come out in the future.
source: Brett Favre Faces Sexual Harassment Lawsuit [GMA]
Beckham says in his declaration, “…Nici has fabricated the following facts about me:
– that in August 2007, I committed adultery with Nici and another prostitute by paying for sex with the two of them …
– that about a month later, I again committed adultery with Nici at the Claridges Hotel in London
– that in October 2007, I contacted Nici while I was in New York seeking to again commit adultery …
– that Nici has had sex with me five times in total.”
Beckham calls Nici’s allegations “unequivocally false,” adding, “I have never met Nici, let alone committed adultery or paid her for sex.”
Last week I posted these very hot photos of Irina Shayk nude in the December 2010 issue of GQ Spain, I was very thankful for them but she isn’t so pleased with them herself because she is threatening to sue the magazine.
Irina and her reps are considering suing the magazine because they say she was wearing lingerie in the photoshot but the magazine photoshopped her so she would appear to be nude. A spokesperson for Elite Model Management said…
“In every image photographed, Ms. Shayk was dressed in lingerie in the artistic and tasteful shots done by photographer Vincent Peters, but due to negligence on GQ’s part it seems as if Ms. Shayk ‘posed’ entirely nude, which is false.”
They also say that in her contract she would be able to give final approval over the interview and photos but in the end she was refused that right. An editor for GQ Spain said she took her clothes off naturally and there is no funny business going on.
You can check out the photoshoot for yourself here, now that I look at them more closely they do look a bit photoshopped but honestly these days what isn’t photoshopped? People on Facebook even photoshop their pictures to make themselves look better.
source: Irina Shayk says she was Photoshopped to look naked in GQ Spain [Website]
On the same day that John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, welcomed their new son – his time fired off a legal letter to Gawker telling them to remove a post about his secret gay sex life.
Gawker interviewed author Robert Randolph about having seen Travolta giving blowjobs and having sex with other men in Los Angeles gay spas but the actors lawyers didn’t take this too lightly and sent off a five page legal letter demanding the post be removed.
Travolta’s lawyer, Marty Singer, says the post is “false and outrageous” and that the author himself admitted that he suffered permanent brain damage back in 2003. He also says the idea that Travolta “engaged in multiple adulterous sexual encounters in different public locations in Los Angeles (where he does not live), and that each time, the (nonexistent) events were coincidentally witnessed by [Randolph], is absolutely ridiculous.”
Gawker have yet to remove the post, or even comment on it. So they obviously aren’t too concerned with the letter, which you can read in the thumbnails below.
I kind of feel bad for John Travolta and his wife because there has always been rumors about him being gay, or at least bi. The reason I feel bad for him mostly because it must be awful having to live your whole life in the public eye and it being a lie.
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source: John Travolta Attacks Site’s “Secret Sex Life” Allegations [Gossip Con]
Axl Rose hates Slash so much he doesn’t even want his former Guns N’ Roses bandmate included in a video game associated with the band.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Rose is suing ‘Guitar Hero’ maker Activision for $20 million for violating a deal to not include imagery of Slash or his band Velvet Revolver in ‘Guitar Hero III.’
“[Activision] began spinning a web of lies and deception to conceal its true intentions to not only feature Slash and [Velvet Revolver] prominently in ‘GH III’ but also promote the game by emphasizing and reinforcing an association between Slash and Guns N’ Roses and the band’s song ‘Welcome to the Jungle,’” the complaint stated.
The lawsuit was put in place by Rose and his company, Black Frog Music, at the Los Angeles Superior Court, and argues the images violate Activision’s use of GNR’s ‘Welcome to the Jungle.’ The lawsuit seeks to repair the “damages” from sales.
Rose is also suing Activision for additional damages for using ‘Sweet O’ Child of Mine’ in online promotions for ‘GH III,’ despite only having license for ‘GH II.’
‘Guitar Hero III’ was officially released on Oct. 28.
A Georgia woman is suingTyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks’ talk show about teen sex addicts.
In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8th in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show’s website seeking “sex addicts.”
[Tyra Banks interviews "teenage" sex addicts]
The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother’s knowledge, the lawsuit says.
McClendon filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit also names Warner Bros. Entertainment and the executive producers of the show as defendants.
McClendon says her daughter suffered damages because the 2009 show “was undoubtedly watched by sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles.” The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. It also asks the court to bar the episode from ever being aired again on television or online.
The show violated McClendon’s right to privacy by putting her daughter, who was a minor, on television without McClendon’s permission, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit also claims negligence, saying the teen was paid for her appearance but that the show didn’t get permission from the labor commissioner to employ her and didn’t get McClendon’s permission before paying the girl to fly to New York, stay in a hotel alone and appear on the show.
‘Transformers 3‘ extra Gabriella Cedillo was seriously injured during filming last month after a stunt went horribly wrong. And on Tuesday, her brother, Adolfo Romo, filed a lawsuit on her behalf against Paramount Pictures alleging negligence, RadarOnline.com reports.
“We filed a case this morning in Chicago and made a request for a jury trial,” said Cedillo’s attorney Todd A. Smith.
Her lawyer also said Cedillo, 24, is unable to speak and is paralyzed on her left side. “It looks like she has vision loss in the left eye, which is sewn shut because there’s a paralysis associated with that and they don’t want her eye to dry out.” One day after the accident in September, Cedillo underwent brain surgery.
The suit refers to the victim as “a disabled person” and says that she “assumed no risk of injury in performing her duties as an extra on the Transformers 3 movie set.”
Several different mechanical and procedural malfunctions are listed in the suit including:
“Failed to properly weld the metal bracket to the stunt car… Failed to provide adequate safety precautions… Allowed untrained extras to drive their own vehicles within close proximity to a violent stunt.”
It’s been reported that Cedillo was driving her own car while a stunt vehicle drove in the opposite direction. A cable towing one of the stunt cars came loose and sliced through Cedillo’s car window, striking her in the head.
The suit is seeking in more than $50,000 on counts of negligence against seven different companies and individuals involved. “All of these entities played a role in some respect as to what happened,” Smith said. “In Illinois you’re not allowed to ask for a specific sum so ultimately the amount of money in this case will be determined by a jury.
Cedilli is making small improvements, Smith said. “Gabriela is somewhat responsive and the family is hopeful that she will continue to take these small strides.”
His rep warned earlier this week that soccer superstar and father of three David Beckham would fight lurid reports that he was guilty of trysts with prostitutes.
Sure enough, the 35-year-old Brit has followed through, going forward with a major lawsuit against In Touch Weekly magazine.
The suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges libel, slander and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to RadarOnline.
Irma Nici, 26, is also a defendant named in the documents; she’s the former call girl quoted in In Touch saying she had slept with Victoria Beckham’s husband on multiple occasions — including unprotected sex and a threesome — back in 2007.
David and former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham have been married for 11 years and have three sons, ages 11, 8, and 5.
Taking swift action upon publication of the scandalous report, the athlete certainly doesn’t seem willing to become the next Tiger Woods. And with their children old enough now to read distressing headlines about their famous parents, the couple may be taking a page from the Brangelina playbook.
In February, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (parents of six) filed suit against the U.K.’s ‘News of the World’ for falsely reporting that the couple were meeting with lawyers to break up and plan custody arrangements. The parties settled for “undisclosed damages” in July.
Michael Jackson‘s three children and mother, Katherine, are suing concert promoter AEG Live for allegedly strong-arming the singer into poor medical care and imposing a grueling rehearsal schedule that led to his death.
By Jackson’s final rehearsal in June 2009 for a big comeback concert series, the entertainer was shivering and disoriented in the warm Staples Center, the lawsuit alleges, and would soon be dead from an acute level of the powerful anesthesia Propofol.
“AEG had legal duties to Michael Jackson to treat him safely and to not put him in harm’s way,” says the lawsuit. “But AEG, despite its knowledge of Michael Jackson’s physical condition, breached those duties by putting its desire for massive profits from the tour over the health and safety of Michael Jackson.”
The lawsuit adds: “Due AEG’s actions and inactions, three loving children lost their father, a loving mother and father lost their son, the Jackson siblings lost their brother, and the world lost its most celebrated entertainer.”
The Jackson family alleges AEG Live breached their agreement to provide physical care for the King of Pop and that the concert promoters were negligent in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray as Jackson’s physician. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Murray allegedly gave the singer lethal levels of an anesthetic while treating Jackson, whose death was ruled a homicide, for insomnia. He has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Director Kenny Ortega, who produced Jackson’s “This Is It” tour, is also named as a defendant in the suit.
AEG had no comment and said company officials had not yet seen the complaint.
Casey Affleck has settled the sexual harassment lawsuit that two women filed against him back in July, in the lawsuit they accused him of sexually harassing them while working on his documentary about Joaquin Phoenix, I’m Still Here.
Magdalena Gorka, a cinematographer, and Amanda White, a producer, both filed a lawsuit against Affleck back in July in which they asked for $2.25 million and $2 million respectively.
Both women left the production team during filming because of his alleged harassment. Gorka says that he crawled into her bed one night while she was sleeping, while White claims that he refused to pay her because she would not spend the night in a hotel room with him.
Affleck’s rep released a statement saying “The disputes between Flemmy Productions, LLC and Casey Affleck with Amanda White and Magdalena Gorka in connection with the film ‘I’m Still Here’ have been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties and the lawsuits are being dismissed.”
They will both receive a credit on the film but there is no word on how much the Affleck camp paid the women to drop the lawsuit. I never know what to think when somebody pays the other party off because either they are guilty and don’t want their name dragged through the gutter or else they are innocent and just want the case to disappear. What do you think?
source: Casey Affleck settles sexual harassment claims [BBC]
