Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad Cries over E-Trade ad, wants $100M By KIERAN CROWLEY Last Updated: 4:01 PM, March 9, 2010 Posted: 2:32 AM, March 9, 2010 Comments: 175
The world revolves around Lindsay.
Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, "milkaholic" baby in its latest commercial -- who happens to be named Lindsay -- was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned.
The actress filed a lawsuit yesterday in Nassau County Supreme Court over the commercial that debuted during the Super Bowl this year.
The ad -- part of a series starring babies who play the stock market -- features a boy apologizing to his girlfriend via video chat for not calling her the night before.
"And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn't over?" the baby girl asks him suspiciously.
"Lindsay?" the boy replies, just before a baby girl sticks her head into the frame and slurs, "Milk-a-what?"
Lohan's lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna.
"Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit," Ovadia said.
"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."
Ovadia wants an injunction to force the spot off the air, and the Lindsay camp wants every last copy of the commercial.
Chris Brown, a spokesman for Grey Group, which produced the spot, is throwing cold milk on the controversy, saying it "just used a popular baby name that happened to be the name of someone on the account team."
Ovadia said E-Trade has violated Lohan's rights under New York state civil-rights law and used her "name and characterization" in business without paying her or getting her approval.
The lawyer said that since the spot was seen by hundreds of millions of people watching the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics finals, the firm has garnered great profits.
She says Lohan is owed $50 million in exemplary damages, plus another $50 million in compensatory damages.
Post subject: Re: Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:42 am
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Yea I heard about this earlier today. My first reaction was that if the judge doesn't immediately throw this out, I've truly lost all my hope in humanity. I mean I figured she was an idiot, but I didn't fully realize until this how insanely delusional she is.
I wonder if she also realizes that so many guys would've killed to have banged her 5 years ago but now wouldn't touch her wearing 5 condoms at once.
I hope the judge makes Lohan pay E-Trade $100 million for being stupid and wasting everyone's time. They should also disbar the lawyer who filed the lawsuit.
i assumed this was a joke when i saw it earlier today, like it came from the onion or something.
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