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Perez Hilton, the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media, may have used the five-finger discount when it came to creating his logo. 
TMZ has obtained a copy of a letter sent to Perez (real name Mario Lavandeira) from Creative Age Publications, demanding the logo be removed. In the letter, Creative Age alleges that the picture Perez uses as his logo is theirs, and that it appeared in a feature in the September 2004 issue of Nailpro -- a magazine geared toward salon owners, managers and nail technicians.
Deborah Carver, publisher of Nailpro, says, "I'm a Perez fan, but he can't use our award-winning photos. This isn't the first time he's done this. These are proprietary works that take an entire team of people to put together."
The letter, which is dated today, reads, "Please be advised that our client is entitled to seek statuatory damages for willful copyright infringement up to $150,000 per work infringed."
Lavandeira's lawyer says he has not received any such letter yet. For his response, expect Perez to post a picture of a fingernail with white dots on it.
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Interesting stats on alexa about the web traffic. I noticed a pretty steady drop in Lard Lad's traffic.
Stan - I wish I could have seen that! Too bad you didn't get that on tape. Was that in LA? I'd pay good money to see that idot get dissed.
To "Ashleyyy"
You're such a clueless dork. Perez only recently started to add posts about Paris' legal troubles after numerous complaints that he only reported positive stuff. You donât have to be a dedicated Perez reader to know he kisses Parisâ ass and doesnât post the bad stuff.
Does this surprise anyone?!!!!!!!!!!!
Perez has made millions from stealing the work of others. That's what the pig-faced loser does.
Hmm, while they are very similiar, there are noticeable differences, so he did not "steal" the exact image.
Another similiar, not noticeable difference is how both sites have two very similiar stories on their main page, yet Perez posted both first. Hmmmmmmmmm.
I LOVE that logo though. He should try to purchase the rights to it. It's pretty cool.
It was utterly priceless! He started crying & took more meth.
SCUM LIKE HIM IS WHY I DO NOT GIVE TO CHARITIES WHY HELP SCUM!
DIE
PEREZ
DIE!
He gets strung out kids & makes em snort meth off his ass,they are desperate so they do.Poor bastards,they will soon have AIDS too.
Yawn.
Perez hilton fans are generally half literate suburban teenagers and self loathing queers. The majority of his hits come from people who simply go to berate him on his own blog. He isn't even witty. Just another self promoting wanna-be.
I do go to his site, but that is to read the celebrity gossip. If you can find any anyway. These days it all seems to be is photos of his hideous mug at some second rate promotional party.
