Adam Robinson is an Oxford-educated chess master and co-founder of the Princeton Review. His ex-girlfriend is a "psychic to the stars." Who do you guess is suing whom, for cleverly stealing all the money?
But he does, according to a former "executive assistant." Kayden Nguyen has sued Seagal for more than $1 million, claiming that he sexually assaulted her. Oh, and also that he hired two young Russian to be his sex slaves.
In your magnificent Monday media column: our good friend Sprezzatura joins the NYO, a sexual harassment suit at NY1, Keith Olbermann is arguing on the Twitter, and a blind J-school student teaches us all a valuable lesson.
A judge in Cuyahoga County, Ohio is suing the local paper, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, for disclosing that certain comments on its website came from her email address. The paper says it had no choice. Does privacy trump news?
It's Tuesday, which means there's another creditor going after nearly bankrupt photographer Annie Leibovitz. As we mentioned earlier, Brunswick Capital says Leibovitz refused to pay $800,000 for helping her land financing to keep her solvent. We have the complaint.
Brunswick Capital filed this complaint against Annie Leibovitz in New York Supreme Court last week claiming Leibovitz owes the firm more than $800,000.
Leeah Brennan (pictured) was a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Kansas City. She was canned last year. In a new lawsuit, she says that happened because her boss gave her job to a strumpet who slept with him. (Sexually!)
When Nicollete Sheridan's character, Edie, was killed off Desperate Housewives, everyone had very interesting theories why this happened. Now it appears to have been a classic case of real-life revenge manifested in a fictional kill off.
A lawsuit in Kentucky against the Vatican has the Pope worried, so his legal team drafted a 3-point plan of defense — American bishops were just Vatican contractors, there's no smoking gun, and Benedict has immunity as head of state.
Human potato Andrew Giuliani, estranged son of America's Mayor Rudy, sued Duke university for kicking him off the golf team. Sad news, patriots: his lawsuit has been dismissed.
Everyone's favorite Biblically-correct beautyqueen is being sued by a Christian PR firm for $64,000. Supposedly she hired the firm to help her spread her message of love when she hit big last year, and then never paid them. [TMZ]
Robert Brot, a rich 57 year-old real estate developer, says 26 year-old Lindsey DeLeon abused his love for her, ripping him off for more than $100K. Why didn't he just hire her? Her escort ads are still up.
Christian Shostle, a former TMZ producer, went on medical leave for depression, unsurprisingly. When he came back, he says, his colleagues were using drugs on the job. He complained. He was fired. Now he's suing. Might TMZ lack professionalism?
13 state attorneys general (three of whom are running for governor) filed lawsuits against a provision of health care reform that will not actually go into effect until 2014. Tort reform now!
Barack Obama will sign the health care bill this week. But then there's more voting to be done, on the reconciliation package! And this voting will be done in the Senate, which takes its goddamn time. Then: the lawsuits!
Record producer—and Gaga's ex!—Rob Fusari claims he came up with the brilliant name "Lady Gaga." Also: He co-wrote Gaga's best song (f'real!), "Paparazzi". Now he is suing the monster he created for $30 million.
YouTube's big court fight with Viacom is unearthing some fun stories, like this one: Viacom secretly doctored its content to look stolen, uploaded it to YouTube, and then promptly reported itself for copyright abuse, having forgotten about its own ruse.
You know, the email that says 'classmates are trying to connect with you, now sign up for stuff'. Anyway, some guy got one, signed up, paid a fee like a moron then instigated a class action lawsuit when he realized.