Posts tagged with "lawsuit"
Stephen King: Plagiarist?
The man who gave us ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘The Shining’, ‘Misery’ and ‘Carrie’ – horror writer, all around long-time story maestro and Hollywood hero Stephen King has been accused of *gasp* plagiarism. Ron Marquardt‘s lawsuit against King and against King’s publisher Simon & Schuster says that the author copied from Marquardt’s 2002 Keller’s Den to create his...
Britney Spears – Another Day, Another Lawsuit for Brit
Let’s hope Britney shoves a bra on in court if she goes into battle with her former nanny Ferial Zaltash, whose filed papers stating she was hired to look after the singers’ two spawn, Sean Preston and Jayden James in September 2007 but was never paid.
The document, submitted to the L.A. Superior Court reads: “In September 2007, Spears hired Plaintiff as an employee to serve as her personal assistant and nanny to her children,...
“That’s Hot”….but it’s SO not Paris
Heirhead and coke smuggling whore, Paris Hilton has settled the lawsuit she filed against Hallmark (they manufacture greetings cards, we particularly like their ‘Happy Divorce’ line) over the company’s use of her image without prior permission.
Hilton sued the manufacturer in 2007, claiming they used her signature catchphrase, “That’s Hot!” and an image of the ditsy socialite on a card captioned ‘Paris’s First Day as...