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Parker/Broderick Sue For Scents
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Parker/Broderick Sue For Scents
Following in the litigious footsteps of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have filed a $15 million lawsuit against a high-end cosmetics company for misappropriating their names and images in an advertising campaign. Parker and Broderick claim that retailer Sephora improperly used photos of the couple as part of a Valentine's Day 2001 sales promotion focusing on "celebrity sweethearts." According to a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit just filed by Parker and Broderick--an excerpt of which you'll find below--the couple's picture was included in Sephora promotional and advertising brochures. Parker and Broderick apparently first learned of their Sephora endorsement in September 2002, when Cruise and Kidman filed a $15 million lawsuit against the company charging that their images had been misappropriated in the cosmetics firm's advertising material. Sephora, which operates 70 stores in the U.S., is owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury goods company. (7 pages)
