The thing that Lindsay Lohan likes to call her career is going nowhere which might explain her bizarre lawsuit against E-Trade. Watch the Associated Press report on YouTube and judge for yourself.
In her court papers, she claims that one of the online brokerage's recent TV ads featuring a ditzy, "milkaholic" baby girl named Lindsay is modeled after her and improperly invoked her "likeness, name, characterization, and personality" without permission, violating her right to privacy.
Lohan, the former Disney child star who became part of the "Mean Girls" before plunging into alcohol and drug abuse and going to addiction rehab, and then going on to a bad acting career and failing in the world of fashion, all before she turns 24 years old this year, is going to have some problems with this lawsuit. First, she will have to admit to the judge that she is a "holic" of any kind. That's the only way she can make the claim that the child is based on her.
Her lawyer Stephanie Ovadia told the New York Post that her client had the same single name recognition as Oprah or Madonna and that E-Trade was exploiting that. "They used the name Lindsay," Ovadia said. "They're using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn't they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody's talking about it and saying it's Lindsay Lohan."
The problem is that the ad did not use the name Oprah or Madonna. If it did, things might have been different. Oprah and Madonna would be justified taking legal action. But Lindsay is a common name? How the hell is she going to prove her case? Still, it should give the mostly out-of-work model and actress lots of free publicity.
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Lindsay found out later about her mom(Dina)suing E-trade without her consent.
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