Celebrity Justice
Woody vs. Hipsters - Oy Vey!

Posted Mar 31st 2008 6:15PM by TMZ Staff

Woody Allen is suing the skinny jeans off of American Apparel over the use of his image on billboards and on the Internet.

And in true hipster irony, it's not a sexual harassment case - as AA Chairman Dov Charney has been taken to court for multiple times.

Allen is suing for $10 million saying he was never contacted by and did not give American Apparel his consent to use an image of him dressed as a Hasidic Jew from a scene in "Annie Hall." Not a very kosher move for AA!

In a U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday, Allen stated that he does not endorse commercial products or services in the U.S., which makes the May 2007 American Apparel billboards and website displays "especially egregious and damaging."

American Apparel billboards are usually clad with skinny young hipsters, often in compromising positions. The company did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.

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1. Hey Woody. how's your step-daughter, uh I mean wife?

Posted at 7:27PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Kelli

2. For a second, I thought it was a child predator warning...

Posted at 7:27PM on Mar 31st 2008 by RR

3. OY VEY CALL DE REBBI

Posted at 7:42PM on Mar 31st 2008 by linda

4. PERV

Posted at 7:50PM on Mar 31st 2008 by GrannyPants

5. Woody should be happy...it's making young girls more familiar with his image!

Posted at 7:53PM on Mar 31st 2008 by whatado

6. INCEST IS BEST!

Posted at 7:54PM on Mar 31st 2008 by NOBODY YOU KNOW

7. Well, if the guy will sue his onetime best friend (Jean Doumanian) and fight to the bitter end to recover the money his underperforming later movies eked out, I suppose he'll sue anyone.

He should have stopped and considered that he was being paid a compliment by this company. I mean, the guy's been largely ignored since "Hannah and Her Sisters." This actually generated some buzz and publicity for him. And after seducing his own stepchild, this guy could've used some positive attention.

Posted at 8:05PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Carolyn (Abernathy)

8. #2 kelli

It was all a misunderstanding, Mia said go upstairs and TUCK the kids in bed.

Posted at 8:10PM on Mar 31st 2008 by FlBiker

9. American Apparel should argue they copied it from the internet on a google images search so that the Court has to deem it an image now "in the public domain" or as "fair use" and so Woody gets nothing, nada, zilch.
Woody supposedly can play jazz clarinet but he has never,ever been funny. Geez, I wonder if before Mia found out, he was doing a "mother-daughter act" but on the sly side? He's still a perv for marrying their adopted child: "vice is nice, but incest is best?"

Posted at 8:18PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Lou Shyster, Esq.

10. FIBiker, that was pretty funny

Posted at 8:27PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Potato Head

11. Woody:

Keep digging , American Apparel is American in Name only........

OneifbyLand

Posted at 8:32PM on Mar 31st 2008 by OneifbyLand

12. FlBiker, your funny tonight, AMAZING! I'm sure that is what happened. Thanks for clearing it up. He was being a good step-dad after all.

Posted at 8:36PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Kelli

13. This guy was father of the year in Hollyweird when Mia adopted all those kids, too bad he's acts just like his movies in real life. A total Perv-on wheels

Posted at 9:21PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Lenn K.

14. NOBODY YOU KNOW You have a great future as a stand-up comic in hell

Posted at 9:33PM on Mar 31st 2008 by Webster

15. Oh, it's a clothing ad? I thought it was advertising NBC's "To Catch A Predator".

My mistake...

Posted at 9:46PM on Mar 31st 2008 by --E

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