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Rich people do some crazy shit, and never has that been more true than in the case of Houston millionaire John Goodman. The 48-year-old heir to an air-conditioning fortune recently legally adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend, Heather Laruso Hutchins. They've been together since 2009, and he decided to make her his legal daughter to avoid losing money in a lawsuit he's facing from drunk driving accident he was in back in 2010. More »
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We've all fantasized about making our exes pay for what they've done to us, but Nora Brank did us all one better and took her ex-boyfriend Nicolas Maier to The People's Court. It was the perfect venue for settling her claim that he stole her stand-up comedy set, word-for-word, after they broke up. More »
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It was adorable in Bridesmaids when the very charming Officer Nathan Rhodes met Kristin Wiig's character, Annie Walker, while pulling her over for a broken rear light. But things don't always turn out so nicely in real life, as one police officer in Stickney, Illinois, discovered the hard way. More »
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Ladies, men have finally caught on to our dastardly plot. Our days of stealing used condoms to collect their precious seed, running off to a shady fertility clinic, getting pregnant, then living large on $800 per month are numbered. A Houston man is suing his ex-girlfriend for undergoing fertility treatments without his consent and having his twins in a plot so incredible that Kanye West has declared it the greatest golddigging scheme of all time. More »
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This week in Georgia, the infamous restaurant chain Hooters filed suit against another restaurant called Twin Peaks, which has a similar "concept." Hooters is accusing Twin Peaks of stealing trade secrets. How many secrets—other than half-naked waitresses and chicken wings—does Hooters really have? Enough that apparently an executive that left the chain and went to work for Twin Peaks was able to take valuable "sensitive business information" with him. More »
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Oprah is being sued by the owner of Own Your Power Communications, Inc. for stealing the phrase "Own Your Power" and passing it off as Oprah's own: More »
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A jury in St. Louis, Missouri has decided to award former Aaron's Inc. employee, Ashley Alford, $95 million in compensation after she was sexually harassed by her supervisor. More »
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Nancy Grace's ex-publicist Patty Caruso is suing her for allegedly pushing her out of the show Swift Justice after she was promised an executive producer spot. Could this be true? Nancy Grace will get to the bottom of it! More »
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Maybe the devil is Prada? (Sorry.) More »
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In what may be the first lawsuit of its kind, a mom is suing the Pittsburgh Public Schools for failing to stop the bullying she says caused her daughter's anorexia. More »
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An Oregon woman sued her salon because her hair snapped off an inch from her scalp after it was bleached. She says she is owed $50,000 for humiliation, depression, and the cost of extensions. More »
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A Queens man is suing a website for wrongly claiming that he is uncircumcised. According to John Singer, 49, the website Centropa, a European oral-history project, misquoted his mother as saying her two sons had not been circumcised. He says he informed the site's director that the information was incorrect, but it was published online anyway. Singer has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages. "Centropa.org and its editorial staff have violated my right to privacy of the most intimate part of my anatomy," said Singer. "They have caused me tremendous emotional pain and suffering. I feel humiliated and betrayed." [Gothamist] More »
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Apparently, some consumers are complaining that Victoria's Secret bras have given them rashes, hives, and even permanent scarring. In the clip above from today's GMA, Roberta Ritter explains that she filed a lawsuit against the retailer after developing blisters and welts while wearing her Angels Secret Embrace and Very Sexy Extreme Push-Up bras. Ritter's lawyers sent the bras to a lab and they tested positive for formaldehyde, which could have caused the skin reaction. Victoria's Secret says it does not use the chemical in their bras, but Ritter's attorneys say they have been contacted by dozens of women who experienced similar symptoms and have filed papers for a class action lawsuit. More »
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G4 is a cable channel geared toward male viewers, and last year, on a program called Attack Of The Show, a segment called "The Great Cougar Hunt" featured three women allegedly trying to pick up younger men in a "world famous cougar hot spot." The ladies, who claim they were filmed without their consent, are pissed that they were branded as "cougars" on national television. TMZ reports that they're suing G4 and the hosts of the show for more than $1 million. The big question here is: Is calling a woman a "cougar" offensive? More »
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1Oak, an overrated NYC hotspot with a troubling reputation for general assholery, has run into more trouble. A federal lawsuit has been filed alleging that manager Francis McHugh, and Olsen-dating owner, Scott Sartiano, fired several minority employees because they wanted "white girls [they] could fuck." One of the waitresses making the claim, an Asian American woman, was told that Sartiano had "a thing about Asians" and wanted "all white girls." (A male bartender also alleges that the club fired him because of his race.) A lawyer for the club claims that these allegations are just coming from "disgruntled employees" who were fired for poor work performance. [Daily News] More »
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Yesterday, our sister site Consumerist published an article about a lawsuit filed against Victoria's Secret by Macrida Patterson, 52, of Los Angeles. The suit alleges that while Ms. Patterson was attempting to try on a v-string from the "Sexy Little Thing" line, a decorative piece flew off and hit her in the eye causing some damage. A perusal of the collection showed me that the only v-string with eye-injuring decoration (heh) was this bedazzled monstrosity. A perusal of Consumerist's comments (urged on by a reader) hurt my eyes worse, though. More »
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Looks like our All-We-Can-Do-Is-Talk-About-Lindsay-Lohan day is coming to a too-good-to-be-true denouement with the news that Lindsay is being sued by a paparazzo for hitting him with her car last March. More »
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