A heated cook book debate just got a lot more unappetizing, as Jerry Seinfeld and his wife were sued yesterday.
Missy Chase Lapine has accused Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, of “brazenly” plagiarizing from her recipe book, “The Sneaky Chef.” Mrs. Seinfeld’s book, entitled “Deceptively Delicious,” was released six months after Lapine’s. Both are collections of recipes that hide healthy ingredients in meals for children.
Mr. Seinfeld was included in the lawsuit for defamation of character. When reports first surfaced of the commonalities of the two books, Mr. Seinfeld made comments about Lapine being a “wacko” while on the David Letterman show. Seinfeld called Lapine “angry” and “hysterical,” compared her to Letterman’s past stalkers, and noted she is a “three-name woman… if you read history, many of the three-name people do become assassins.”
Lapine’s 19-page filing seeks unspecified damages.
Marilyn Manson’s former keyboardist has added more disturbing items to the list of things Manson has squandered the band’s money on.
Following Stephen Bier’s first lawsuit against the shock rocker in August, Page Six is reporting that his new complaint filed this week states that Manson purchased “African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier, and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair… swastika wall tiles and matching custom rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons.”
Biers also finds fault with Manson hiring his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, for the “Heart Shaped Glasses” video and paying her more than any music video actress in history.
Manson also allegedly used band funds to have roadies cart around suitcases filled with copies of the “Alice in Wonderland” books.
Rapper Ludacris appeared in a New York courtroom yesterday to face the charges that he and rapper Kanye West stole another song without consent for their song, “Stand Up,” E! Online reports.
BMS Entertainment/Heat Music LLC sued the two musicians alleging they stole lyrics from the IOF song “Straight Like That.”
EMI April Music Publishing, distributor Universal Music, Video Distribution Corp. and Def Jam Music Group are also named in the suit.
The charges are centred around the phrase “like that” which is used many times in both songs. Ludacris and West are both expected to testify in the case, which is expected to last a week or two.
