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Author is suing Jerry Seinfeld’s wife for plagiarism, defamation
By M&C News Jan 8, 2008, 22:03 GMT
The AP reports that Missy Chase Lapine, the author of The Sneaky Chef is suing Jessica Seinfeld for plagiarism. She is also suing for defamation.
Lapine argues that at least 15 of her recipes are identical to those in Seinfeld’s book. The article states that Lapine is seeking “unspecified damages for copyright and trademark infringement.”
The Seinfeld’s lawyer believes that Lapine is only trying to “boost her own books sales,” as stated in the article.
Also, the article notes that Jerry Seinfeld recently went on David Letterman’s Late Show and made similarities between Missy Chase Lapine’s name with that of assassins Mark David Chapman who shot John Lennon and James Earl Ray who shot Martin Luther King.
On Letterman’s show Jerry Seinfeld said, "if you read history, many of the three-name people do become assassins."
Jerry Seinfeld also stated that the result of celebrity is the appearance of certain “wackos” who “wait in the woodwork to pop out at certain moments,” Seinfeld also told Letterman.
Lapine’s lawsuit argues that she is not in any way harmful or a stalker and merely wants some compensation for the ideas which she believed Jessica Seinfeld stole.
Click here to read the full AP article.
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Jessica Seinfeld SO obviously copied and only minimally changed Missy Lapine’s cookbook and called it her own. Wow, READ THE LAWSUIT on “TheSmokingGun.com” website before you take my word. It’s so amazing to see all of the stuff that Jessica Seinfeld copied and changed very little from the real book by Missy Lapine.
I mean, my god, what is wrong with her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh (who also represented the PLAGIARIST Kaavya Viswanathan from Harvard)? Does she think that the public is stupid? It’s sooooo simple to put the books together as the lawsuit papers show on thesmokinggun.com to see what happened. This makes Oprah look like an IDIOT!
Frankly, I don’t really care about the slanderous comments that Jerry Seinfeld made to try to publicly humiliate Missy Lapine. Ms. Lapine is soooooo far more of a class act than Jerry Seinfeld that it was pretty much a joke to me (like everything that Jerry says.) Besides, I’m fairly confident that the copyright infringement stands on it’s own merit. For crying out loud, it’s in INK!!!!
IT IS SHOCKING!!! Jessica Seinfeld is SO BUSTED! Jerry is going to have to pay out the whazoo for this one! Good for Missy!
Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Jessica Seinfeld's agent, has a history of stealing books (yes, already PUBLISHED material) and now she has stolen Missy Lapine's book and GIVEN it to the dummmy Jessica Seinfeld. She was the agent for the Harvard sophomore who plagiarized a well-known novelist a year ago and then lost her $500K contract!!!! What, Ms. Walsh is fooled again!!! Give me a break!! Ms. Walsh is just motivated by greed without ethics. Only now, Missy Lapine has some bad-ass attorneys who are demanding a jury trial. Ms. Walsh is what is wrong in publishing. Poor Jessica! See what Jerry got you into!!!
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???Jan 8th, 2008 - 22:37:08
You can't plagiarise an idea, especially for a cookbook. And although the jokes were in poor taste, it wasn't against the law. She's just looking for attention for her book, since Jerry's wife got free publicity because of who she is. So sad when people stoop to such ridiculous levels.
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