US firm fights back at LiLo’s $100M lawsuit over ‘milkaholic’ baby ad

Washington, May 12 (ANI): The financial services firm E*trade has struck back against Lindsay Lohan who filed a 100-million-dollar lawsuit against them for allegedly defaming her over an advertisement.

E*Trade”s lawyers filed hundreds of papers in New York”s Nassau County Supreme Court, detailing Lohan”s dalliances with drugs and alcohol, purportedly to prove she lives in Hollywood and not Long Island, where her lawsuit was filed. E*Trade”s aim: to change the court fight from Long Island to Manhattan, where its headquarters is located.

“This is the whole reason we are suing them — for demeaning Lindsay.

“They are just proving how they operate — they play dirty,” ABC News quoted Lohan’s mother, Dina, as telling the New York Post.

Lohan alleged that a “milkaholic” baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her, also named ‘Lindsay’. She claimed that the ad invoked in her “likeness, name, characterization and personality” without permission, violating her right to privacy.

E*Trade”s ad unrolled during the Feb. 7 Super Bowl. In it, a baby boy apologizes to his girlfriend through a video chat for not calling her the night before, saying he was on E*Trade. The camera switches to the girl, who asks suspiciously, “And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn”t over?”

The camera then switches back to the boy, who replies, with apparent unease, “Lindsay?” before another baby girl, presumably Lindsay, moves into the frame and asks, “Milk-a-what?” (ANI)

J Lo’s ex-hubby says court fight has left him bankrupt

New York, April 26 (ANI): Actress Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband, Ojani Noa, is filing for bankruptcy, claiming that the legal battle over the couple’s private home videos has left him broke and depressed.

Lopez, 40, filed a 10 million dollar suit against Noa, 35, in November and obtained court orders to prevent him from using the home videos, including footage from their honeymoon, for a movie he was producing on his life.

“The lawsuit put me through so much pain and frustration,” the New York Post quoted him as saying.

“I’m losing everything,” he stated.

Noa hoped that, by declaring bankruptcy, he could sell the tapes, along with his car and personal belongings, at a public auction, but Lopez’s lawyer, John Lavely, said the tapes can’t be sold.

“Both the preliminary injunction and the permanent injunction are still in full force and effect. Offering for sale or selling the videotape would constitute a wilful violation,” he said.

In 2007, Noa was ordered to pay Lopez 545,000 dollars when he tried to publish a tell-all book, claiming it violated a confidentiality agreement the couple had previously reached.

Noa said the litigation with Lopez has crippled his modelling and acting career.

“I can’t go to work because anytime I go to a casting, people are afraid to hire me because of the judgment on my head. [They are] skeptical [because] of what I’m going through,” he added. (ANI)

Finks court fight over solitary cell

A Finks bikie has asked the South Australian Supreme Court to review a Correctional Services decision to put him in solitary confinement.

The bikie asked for a judicial review after he was twice put in the high-security G-division at Yatala Prison in Adelaide.

The man cannot be identified and is being held on allegations of blackmail and assault.

His lawyer Craig Caldicott told the court the second time the man was sent to G-division, he was not given a written notice as required under the Correctional Services Act.

But the state’s lawyer countered that the case was futile because the man was no longer in Yatala.

The court heard the prisoner was now in the mainstream population at the Adelaide Remand Centre.

Justice Richard White adjourned the case for the prisoner to provide more evidence and consider whether to proceed.

Sir Sean Connery wins multi-million pound court fight over loaned gems

Washington, March 18 (ANI): Sir Sean Connery has won a multi-million pound legal battle over loaned gems to a late friend.

The 78-year-old had lent 4 million dollars to French-Swiss friend Jean-Ren‚ in 1972, and in exchange received shares, diamonds and property as collateral.

The former James Bond star was accused of making a huge profit from selling the assets when Ren‚ failed to repay the money and passed away in 2002.

Ren‚’s son Christian filed a lawsuit against the Hollywood veteran claiming Connery received far more than his original investment from the sale of the security, which he claimed, now stood at 50 million dollars as compared to 10 million dollars in the past.

Judges in Geneva, Switzerland, however, recently ruled there was no case for the actor to answer.

“I am pleased to announce the Tribunal of First Instance of the Republique and Canton of Geneva has entirely found in favour of Sir Sean and Lady Connery and has declared the demand the petition of the son of Jean-Ren‚ Canela totally inadmissible,” Contactmusic quoted his agent Nancy Seltzer as saying. (ANI)