美国名人荒唐诉讼案

人，出了名，也就有了身价。可是高昂的身价也往往引导出一些荒唐事。形形色色的官司，各种各样的诉讼，使人啼笑皆非。然而，荒唐鬼荒唐，官司还是要有一个最后的说法。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之一）

Lindsay Lohan vs. The Talking Babies

By Frances Romero Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

林赛·洛汉诉讼广告婴儿侵权案

Actress and sometimes singer Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against financial services company E*Trade on March 8, saying that one of their television ads "used her name and characterization" without her permission. What characterization is she referring to? A baby named Lindsay that is referred to as a "milkaholic." Apparently Lohan takes offense to other people — fictional babies included — being referred to as any type of -holics. Lohan's lawyer went on to claim that the company was clearly referencing the socialite because she has the same one-name recognition as people like Oprah or Madonna and that E*Trade was "using [Lindsay's] name as a parody of her life." Lohan is seeking $100 million in damages.

一个女演员叫林赛·洛汉，她有时候也唱唱歌。2009年3月8日，洛汉把一家网上交易的金融服务机构告上了法庭，说这个公司在一则电视广告中，没有经她本人同意“使用了她的名字和形象。”那么她所说的形象指的是什么呢？一个叫林赛的婴儿被指为染上了“喝奶癖”。显然洛汉认为侵害了包括这个虚构婴儿在内的他人的权利，因为他们被指染上了某种怪癖。洛汉的律师声称这家公司明显的是指如奥普拉或麦当娜的叫这个名字的某个社会名流，而这个网上交易公司使用的是“（林赛）的名字，模仿她的生活。”洛汉要求这个公司支付1亿美元的赔偿款。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之二）

Tara Reid, Choirgirl

By Kayla Webley Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

塔拉·里德---合唱团的女孩

A few months after Tara Reid embarrassingly and unknowingly flashed her breast on the red carpet at Sean "Diddy" Combs 35th birthday party, a Sky Las Vegas Condominiums salted her wounds with a new ad campaign, "Dear Tara Reid, come let it all hang out." The American Pie actress, who appeared as a jet-setting party girl on Taradise and has posed for Playboy, sued the owners of the condo project in March 2005, saying the advertisement misrepresented her as "sexually lewd or immoral" and suggested that the wardrobe malfunction was intentional. Reid's lawsuit sought to bar Sky Las Vegas from continuing to run the ads. The case was dismissed on December 6, 2005.

塔拉·里德参加了“吹牛老爹”西恩·布斯35岁生日的晚会，使人尴尬地在红地毯上暴露了她的大奶，自己却完全不知晓。几个月后，一家拉斯维加斯的高层公寓建筑商却在楼盘推销广告中，在塔拉·里德的伤口上撒了一把盐，“亲爱的塔拉·里德，来啊，把它全都露出来。”这个美国的酷派明星曾经出现在放荡不羁的晚会上，摆出和花花公子哥牌照的姿势。她在2005年3月吧这家工程公司告上法庭，声称这则广告错误地使她给人以“淫荡或者不道德的性形象”，而且说她的衣服脱落下来是故意这么做的。里德要求拉斯维加斯的高层公寓建筑商停止八方这则广告。这个案子在2005年12月6日别撤销。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之三）

Carrie, Those Belong To Us

By Frances Romero Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

卡莉，这是属于我们的

Who ever imagined that an answer to a beauty pageant question could be so controversial? When Miss California Carrie Prejean stated her religious aversion to "opposite marriage" during the 2009 Miss USA contest, she not only ticked off the questioning judge — openly gay celebrity blogger Perez Hilton — but also started a battle that would keep her in the limelight for a touch longer than her allotted 15 minutes.

Prejean finished as first runner-up in the pageant, but she seemed to revel more in being crowned the new anti-gay marriage mouthpiece, appearing on Larry King Live and in an ad for the National Organization for Marriage. But what really got the blonde into hot water was a set of modeling photos in which she was clad in skimpy lingerie. Miss USA pageant officials fired Prejean, calling the photos a breach of her contract. She sued, claiming religious discrimination. The organization then countersued, saying that it wanted back $5,200 that Prejean had been given for breast-implant surgery. After about a month of to and fro, both lawsuits were suddenly settled — coincidentally at the same time that celebrity site TMZ reported that it had obtained a racy solo video of the Prejean that was too hot to air.

普利琼在美国小姐选拔赛中获得了亚军，但是似乎她进而被冠以新的“反同性恋婚姻”代言人的称号，在美国CNN电视台的“拉里·金直播节目”全国婚姻组织的广告中被曝光。在广告中，她穿着透露的内衣。“美国小姐”选拔赛的官员们取消了普利琼的亚军，说此照片违反了她的合同。她以宗教歧视为由诉诸了法律。这个选美组织进行了反诉，说他们要收回为普利琼在选美赛前付出的5200美元的丰胸手术费用。经过大约一个月的来来往往的官司，两个诉讼都尘埃落定----巧合的是，在同一时间，一个专门登载名流轶闻的网站TMZ(Thirty-Mile Zone)报道说，他们得到了普利琼一个下流的独唱视频，热门的不能再热门了。谁能想象得到，对一个选美中提出问题的回答会引起那么大的风波？在2009年全美小姐选拔赛中，加利福尼亚小姐卡莉·普利琼说她的宗教观念对“异性婚姻”很讨厌时，她不仅是在判断的问题上打了个否定的符号，而且使她在众目睽睽之下，远远超过了15分钟的回答问题时间。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之四）

Fiddy and the Tacos

By Kayla Webley Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

飞迪流行歌手和塔可钟的官司

50 Cent's name does not come for free. The rapper, real name Curtis James Jackson III, slapped Taco Bell with a lawsuit in 2008, asking for $4 million in damages, for using his name without permission. Hoping to drum up a little free publicity, the fast-food chain sent a letter to news outlets nationwide jokingly asking 50 Cent change his name to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent" to promote their low-cost menu items. They neglected to send a letter to the rapper, but Jackson found about the campaign after blogs started calling him a sellout for endorsing Taco Bell. The suit was settled in November 2009.

价值50 美分的名字也不可以免费的。一个流行歌手说唱艺人，真实的名字叫詹姆斯·杰克孙III。他弹奏的乐器是塔可钟。2008年，他提出了诉讼请求，要求赔偿他4百万美元的名义损失费，因为未经本人允许有人使用了他的名字。他本希望通过努力得到一点免费的宣传。但是，一家快餐连锁店给全国的新闻媒体发了一封信，戏虐地说要求花50美分把杰克孙的名字涨价到“79美分”，“89美分”或者是“99美分”，从而抬高他们菜单上的廉价食品价格。他们甚至给杰克孙连一封信都没有写。杰克孙博客里人们开始称他“叫座的签名塔可钟”之后，才发现人们针对他的攻势是那么猛烈。2009年11月这个案子才结案。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之五）

Even Rockers Have to Pay Up

By Laura Fitzpatrick Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

摇滚歌手不得不买单

In May 2009, American Express sued Courtney Love for more than $350,000 in charges and unpaid fees on her AmEx Gold card. Filed in U.S. District Court, the suit said Love's charging privileges had been suspended after the Hole singer — and Kurt Cobain widow — "failed and refused" to make payments. Love filed a countersuit in January of this year, claiming the charges were fraudulent, run up by crooks on a "massive" number of cards AmEx issued in her name without telling her.

2009年5月，美国运通信用卡状告考特尼·洛夫透支了35万美元而没有在运通信用卡公司她的金卡上充值。受理此案的是美国地方法院。诉状说摇滚歌手洛夫和寡妇库尔特·科贝恩 “没有并拒绝”充值之后，其头职权被吊消。洛夫在2010年1月份递交了反诉状，说这些消费是个骗局。运通信用卡公司在没有通知她本人的情况下，曾以她的名义发出的大量的信用卡，一些坏蛋就是使用这些信用卡造成了积欠。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之六）

Men At Work vs. Kookaburra

By Claire Suddath Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

群星乐队和笑翠鸟的官司

Vanilla Ice borrowed from Queen, The Verve sampled from the Rolling Stones, and Men At Work unknowingly took a passage from the 75-year-old Australian children's song, "Kookaburra Sits in The Old Gum Tree." The band recorded "Down Under" in 1981, but no one thought the the flute riff sounded like the familiar melody until 2009, when an Australian television game show made the connection. Originally written by a schoolteacher named Marion Sinclair in the early 1934, "Kookaburra" now legally belongs to Larrikin Music Publishing, which sued Men At Work members Colin Hay and Ron Strykert as well as several branches of Sony and EMI — and won. The lawsuit — which disputed just two bars of music — serves as a warning to future composers. Think you've written a new song? It's probably just an up-tempo version of "Row Rowyou’re your Boat."

流行乐《香草冰激凌》借鉴了《女王》的韵律，而《女王》则是“神韵乐队”和“滚石乐队”和“群星乐队” 无意中采用了流行了75年的澳大利亚儿歌《香枫树上的笑翠鸟》中的一段而谱成的歌曲。乐队“默默地”在1981年录制了着手歌曲，但是没有人能想得到，这首长笛重奏曲和那首儿歌是那么的相像，一直流行到2009年直到在澳大利亚电视台录制一个节目时，才发现了它们之间的联系。这首儿歌是一个叫马里恩·辛克莱的教师1934年谱写的。现在《笑翠鸟》的版权在法律上属于“拉瑞金”音乐发行公司。“拉瑞金”公司就把“群星乐队”的成员克林·黑和罗恩·斯特莱克特以及索尼和百代唱片公司的几个分支机构告上了法庭，而且胜诉了。这一诉讼案，其实只涉及到曲子中的两小节乐谱，这两小节乐谱只不过是后面曲谱的前奏而已。请注意，你谱写了一首新歌吗？或许你这首歌的曲谱就是快节奏乐曲英文儿歌《摇啊摇，摇小船》的翻版！

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之七）

Ralph Lauren vs. Polo

By Claire Suddath Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

拉尔夫和《波罗》杂志的诉讼

Polo is the name of a sport, a magazine dedicated to that sport, and Ralph Lauren's preppy, high-end casual line designed to allude to that sport. Polo Ralph Lauren and Polo, the official publication of the U.S. Polo Association, peacefully co-existed for 22 years until 1997, when the magazine decided to focus more on the elite, polo-playing lifestyle and less on the equestrian sport. Worried that Polo was hijacking the same type of image projected by his clothing, Ralph Lauren sued Polo's Texas-based publisher, claiming that the magazine had no right to use the word "Polo." In 1999, a Dallas court ruled in favor of the luxury designer and the magazine ceased publication. But the ruling was reversed upon appeal in 2001 and Polo came back to life — with a small disclaimer, stating that it was "not affiliated with Polo Ralph Lauren."

“波罗”是一项体育运动，是一种马球。有一家杂志一直致力于支持马球运动，而拉尔夫·劳伦专为这项运动设计了刻板而价格不菲的皮束带。波罗·拉尔夫·劳伦和《波罗》这一美国马球协会独家发行的杂志和平共处了22年。直到1997年，《波罗》杂志决定把杂志的重点更多的转向精英阶层，马球运动的风格以及马球运动的骑术上来，马球运动和马球杂志才开始分道扬镳。拉尔夫·劳伦担心《波罗》杂志抢走他设计的马球运动服饰的风格，于是他就把总部设在德克萨斯的杂志发行商告上了法庭，说这家杂志无权使用《波罗》这一名称。受理案件的达拉斯法庭判决豪华马球运动服的设计者胜诉，而要求《波罗》杂志停止发行。但是2001年案件被转到上诉法院，判决又发生了逆转，《波罗》杂志又绝处逢生，判决附带了一个小小的条件，即它要声明“它不是附属于波罗·拉尔夫·劳伦的”。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之八）

Miley Cyrus and The Million Person Apology

By Kristi Oloffson Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

麦莉·塞勒斯和对100万人的道歉

When teen pop star Miley Cyrus took a photo with her friends in early 2009 making slanted eyes, at least one person took offense. The photo led Los Angeles woman Lucie J. Kim to file a $4 billion lawsuit, saying the photo violated the civil rights of Asian Pacific Islanders. While Cyrus maintained she was "simply making a goofy face," and that the photo was clearly taken "out of context" Kim claimed that each of the Asian Pacific Islanders in LA county — about 1 million — deserved at least $4K each because of the harm they suffered simply from seeing the photo. Cyrus, then 16, repeatedly apologized, maintaining she "really wanted to stress how sorry I am if the photo of me with my friends offended anyone." Nine months later, the case was dismissed.

2009年初，流行歌星麦莉·塞勒斯和她的男朋友拍了一张合影，一起了人们的白眼相待，起码有一个人对此很是不满。就是因为这张照片，洛杉矶的一位妇女露西·J·吉姆提交了一个要求赔偿金额达40亿美元的诉讼，声称这张照片危害了亚太岛民的权利。塞勒斯在保持了一段沉默之后，确实感到“傻了眼”，照片确确实实就是在吉姆所描述的背景下拍照的。因为每一个居民看到照片就会受到伤害，洛杉矶县共有100万居民，对每一个洛杉矶县的居民赔偿4000美元，总共就是40亿美元。此事塞勒斯只有16岁，她一次又一次地道歉，反反复复地说：“我真的要强调说，如果我和我的朋友拍的照片冒犯的了大家，我该多么的对不起呀。”几个月之后，此案撤诉了。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之九）

Nicolas Cage vs. Kathleen Turner

By Alexandra Silver Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

尼古拉·凯奇和凯瑟琳·特纳的诉讼案

It's not often that actors are accused of stealing Chihuahuas. In her 2008 memoir Send Yourself Roses, actress Kathleen Turner alleged that Nicolas Cage, who she'd worked with back in 1986, had been arrested for drunk driving and had also...snatched a dog. Cage brought a libel case in the UK against Turner, her book publisher, and the newspaper that had run an excerpt. The defendants said they were wrong and apologized, paid Cage's legal fees, and made a donation to a charity.

一个男演员被指责偷了奇瓦瓦小狗，这可不是常有的事啊。女演员凯瑟琳·特纳在2008年她写的一本回忆录中说到，尼古拉斯·凯奇在1986年曾和她一起共过事，他曾经因酒后驾车而被罚监禁，另有一次……他还抢了别人的一只狗。凯奇在英国递交了一个涉及诽谤罪的诉讼案， 状告特纳，她的出版商和摘录过此书的报纸。凯奇的辩护律师说，他们都承认了错误并道歉道歉，承担了法律诉讼的费用，并因此被迫向慈善机构捐款。

美国名人荒唐诉讼案（之十）

Prince Loves (To Annoy) His Fans

By Alexandra Silver Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

“王子”爱他的粉丝，也惹恼了他的粉丝

The artist usually known as Prince has a tendency to get into disputes with his fans. In his far-reaching efforts to control his image and his music, he's sued and nearly-sued many times. In 1999, he filed against Uptown magazine, a fan publication, but later dropped the suit. In 2007, YouTube was in his sights, for airing unauthorized music videos. That same year, a coalition of fans behind other websites — tired of the bullying, and dramatically dubbed "Prince Fans United" — stood up to the artist's insistence that they take down photographs of him.

一位被称作“王子”的艺术家眼看就要卷入和他的粉丝的纠纷中。他极尽自己的努力，挽回自己的形象和音乐，于是提起诉讼，甚至是多次诉讼。1999年，他提起了一个对《市区》杂志的诉讼案。此家杂志也是他的一个“粉丝”，以后她又把这个诉讼丢在了一边。2007年，一家世界性的叫做“YouTube”的视频网站又一次进入了他的视野。次网站下载播放了他本人没有授权的视频。就在同一年，一个另外网站的粉丝们讨厌那种以强凌弱的行为，成立了一个粉丝联盟。他们站在“王子”一边，支持他坚持要那家杂志把他本人的照片拿下来。