Jessica Alba threatens to sue Playboy for putting her on the cover

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0228062alba1.html



Alba Threatens Playboy Over Cover Pic

Actress: Magazine wants readers to think she's in a nude pictorial

FEBRARY 28--Actress Jessica Alba, who appears in a bikini on the cover of Playboy's March issue, is threatening to sue the magazine, claiming that Hugh Hefner & Co. are trying to make it seem that she appears in a "nude or semi-nude pictorial." In a February 23 legal threat letter, a copy of which you'll find below, Alba's lawyer demands that Playboy cease distributing the magazine and provide the 25-year-old actress with a "monetary settlement" for its unauthorized use of her image for commercial purposes. According to Brian Wolf, Alba's counsel, the venerable men's magazine has caused the young star "immeasurable harm" by placing her on its cover (Alba appears next to a cover line billboarding a story on the 25 sexiest celebrities). Wolf charges that Playboy initially offered to pay Alba to appear on the cover, but that they were flatly turned down. The magazine, he added, then resorted to a ruse to obtain a promotional photo of a bikini-clad Alba from Columbia Pictures. That sultry image, from the film "Into the Blue," appears on Playboy's cover. Along with the legal letter from Wolf, a partner at the Los Angeles firm Lavely & Singer, Playboy also received a February 24 letter from a Columbia executive expressing the studio's dismay over the "outrageous, unethical behavior utilized by Playboy personnel to obtain" the Alba promotional photograph. While reserving its legal rights, the studio is demanding an apology for both it and Alba. (8 pages)

[IA_Seth]

1. My brother will be disappointed...

He just told me the other day that she was going to be in Playboy and was rather excited.

Poor fella.

[DS1]

2. Rumer is Jennifer Love Hewitt is considering it to move away from

her goody-two(too?)-shoes image.

I'd MUCH rather see JLH

[Beetwasher]

3. Damn! No Nude Pics??? Oh Well, Guess I Won't Be

Buying that issue and the hand lotion.

[Fenris]

4. Jesus, what the Hell happened to Playboy?

Take away the name and you couldn't tell if that magazine cover was from FHM, Maxim, or countless other male publications.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. It's exactly like FHM and Maxim.

That's probably one reason why it's lost so much money in recent years. If they were to run one of those "What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy" ads NOW, they'd have to include a photo of Fred Durst or Tommy Lee. It's strictly entertainment BY morons, FOR morons.

[WCGreen]

6. What is she so worried about....

she posed for that pic... Promoted that movie that was nothing more, from what I understand, than her cavorting around in a Bikini dodging bad guys and sharks...

And those vivid images of her in Bra and Panties in the Fantastic Four promos were pure acting talent....

The nerve of Playboy for sullying her reputation....


Nyet....

[mitchum]

8. I couldn't have said it any better, WCGreen

well done

[pinniped]

7. Hey, Candace Michelle is supposed to be on the March issue.

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