In recent court filings Lady Gaga a.k.a. Stefani Germanotta is claiming that she should not have to pay the nearly $250,000 her legal defense cost on what she termed a “publicity stunt” lawsuit, when Lost Surfboards sued her over her use of the Mayhem name, according to a story on Billboard.
In a scathing motion Friday, Gaga’s attorneys say the star should not be forced to pay the huge legal bills ($232,484 in) she racked up beating that case. They say it was “never a legitimate lawsuit” but instead an improper effort to “capitalize on the fame and popularity of Lady Gaga” by suing her over the use of “a common dictionary word. . . A litigant should not be permitted to use the federal courts to launch a publicity stunt masquerading as a lawsuit against a high-profile artist,” Gaga’s attorney Orin Snyder writes in the filing, obtained and first reported by Billboard. “Nor should it be permitted to wield the machinery of litigation as a device for extracting a settlement that the merits cannot justify. This lawsuit was both.”
It that once again Gaga and her team continue to underestimate both the pop cultural reach and ferocity of Lost Surfboards. We’re guessing this will not end easily nor early. For all the details, please click the link.
[Link: Billboard]
