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The QuizLaw Celebrity Legal Round Up
In celebrity legal news, Brandy — a singer of many notable R & B songs that I’m not familiar with — is being sued for $50 million. TMZ has the legal documents, which concern a lawsuit filed by the parents of a woman who was killed in a car accident Brandy was involved in. The lawsuit alleges that Brandy was driving recklessly — at the time of the accident, traffic slowed and Brandy’s car rear-ended that of Awatef Aboudihaj, who was killed. The California Highway Patrol is also recommending that Brandy be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Brandy was not under the influence of anything, nor was she speaking into a cell phone. Apparently, she’s just a bad driver. Brandy’s last gig was as a judge on “America’s Got Talent.” Good luck bilking her for $50 million, Aboudihaj family.
Elsewhere, Bruce Willis has settled an extortion lawsuit that he brought against a childhood friend, a lawsuit about scrap booking that we discussed earlier. The suit, which was apparently based on a “misunderstanding,” has been “amicably resolved.”
Finally, (super?) model Niki Taylor is suing E! Entertainment, claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress. She claims that E! convinced her to film a documentary, which she thought was going to be based on her current success as a business woman. However, after she caught a glimpse of the footage — which was to focus on Taylor’s hardships, including a car crash that left her in a coma— she decided to sue for fraud, invasion or privacy, and breach of contract, in addition to emotional distress. The show is meant to be an episode on an E! series entitled, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” to which Taylor responded: “My life is far from a boulevard of broken dreams.”
And, personally, I’m just wondering if Niki Taylor ever watched E! Entertainment before agreeing to be a part of any show associated with the channel. She’s lucky if Perez Hilton doesn’t do the narration. That’s, uhm, quality programming over there.
