Celebrity Justice
Woody vs. Hipsters - Oy Vey!

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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31. Read your bible, Robert? Really. Well, I would suggest to you,my inbred uneducated, anti-semitic friend, that you put down the Hagee picture Bible for bigots and pick up one for people that have actually graduated from high school. Now, for your information, incest was practised by all members of the mono-theistic faiths at the time of Christ, and it was the word of the Lord and the guiding light of the Bible that put an end to those practises, But, there are still groups like N.A.M.B.L.A., the Mormon extremists, and various other groups who self-identify as Christians that continue to practice polygamy, incest, and other forms of forbidden acts contrary to the teachings of Christ. So, the next time you wish to spew Mel Gibson nonsene at TMZ make sure the only ones here are your moron Aryan brothers.

And as for your fellow moron, "I don't really care", only in America, could someone defend a pedophile and then proudly state their own complete ignoranc of the facts at issue, thank you for proving that the General Accounting Office was correct in stating that our public education system has produced two generations of complete idiots.

Posted at 12:10AM on Apr 1st 2008 by Robert get your dick out of your mother's head

32. i drink your milkshake!

Posted at 12:21AM on Apr 1st 2008 by hormone

33. WTF

Posted at 12:17AM on Apr 1st 2008 by TMZsucksCOX

34. The comments people have made.....you just don't get it. If someone uses "You" in an Advertisement without your permission or any type of compensation, you can sue them. Plain and simple. Regardless of Woody's past situations--How would YOU feel if your likeness was used by a Big Corporation, without your knowledge, without your permission and without any compensation? I know I would take them to court.

Posted at 10:14PM on Apr 2nd 2008 by Cali_Dude

35. Perhaps American Apparel anticipated a lawsuit and are expecting millions in free publicity over the lawsuit? If the free publicity is worth $100 million, than $10 million is a small price for them to pay if they knew they couldn't get his permission anyway. Frankly, I don't see the point of their ad. They know he's "controversial" due to his personal history and are placing a "conservative" photo of him to advertise their product to sexualize it in a naughty way without overtly referring to his sexual history. This advertiser thinks they are brilliant beyond belief, but frankly I think it perplexes the general population and they think this ad is just strange. What next, Muslims in burkas to advertise jeans? They need to hire the people who do Manhattan Mini Storage ads. They come up with better advertising concepts.

Posted at 12:23AM on Apr 1st 2008 by Joan

36. So two multi-millionaire's who have a history of mistreatng and abusing women are locked in a battle over an ad campaign that uses the image of a 120 pound aged pedophile to promote a clothing line allegedly without his permission. Exactly what demographic was supposed to be captured by this brilliant marketing strategy, and how much money was saved, and how much free publicity will both men get now for their fading careers - but the most important point is - and you have to listen really closely to this is - WHO THE HELL GIVES A CRAP?

Posted at 12:25AM on Apr 1st 2008 by Wood Yi Who Gives A Crap

37. Give me a break. This is obviously a parody. And lucky for American Apparel, Larry Flynt took this battle to the supreme court a long time ago. Parody of a public figure is protected by the First Amendment. Sorry Woody. Time to get back to trying to regain the relevance you once had in the 70s.

Posted at 12:42AM on Apr 1st 2008 by shilo

38. If you think Woody is a pervert well clearly none of you have met Dov Charney.Didn't he sell that money vaccuum anyway? Though if I'm not mistaken he's still somewhere in the board of directors or something. Oh Dov! Oh Woody! Mozeltov to you both... you've found yet another way to get the media's attention.

Posted at 12:49AM on Apr 1st 2008 by MonaMoore

39. I never liked Woody,
but he should sue, the comercial is a bit offensive after all

Posted at 1:15AM on Apr 1st 2008 by H.

40. Woody isn't a pedophile, he's a brilliant writer and intellect. Pedophile is defined as somebody that has sex with someone who is under that age of 12, period. Quit redefining reality to fit your own weird militaristic views of the world and get on the page called reality. Also, it wasn't incest because it was his step-daughter. Incest implies sleeping with a blood relative. Jeez /rolls eyes.

Posted at 1:35AM on Apr 1st 2008 by ohGimmeABreak

41. 42. by ohGimmeABreak - The court saw otherwise and found his behavior, both towards his daughter Dylan's sister, Soon-Yi, and towards Dylan herself, to be so disturbing and damaging to the children as to call it sexually inappropriate (having his biological daughter suck his thumb, etc.), and also found his behavior towards his son son wrong that he lost visitation and custody of both younger children. As for your definitions, bonking the 14 year old daughter who is also the sister of your younger childen, is pervy and whacked according to all the courts which addressed it, and civilized society as well as all the shrinks involved in the prolongued custody battle. PERVERTS can ALSO be talented. His being a great talent does not negate the fact that he is ALSO a perv.

Posted at 1:51AM on Apr 1st 2008 by .

42. Hey 29 :Incest includes marriage between persons within the legal degrees of affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden, as in adoptive parent & child. I really don't know how these 2 pulled it off. (Maybe what happened in Vegas didn't stay there?) As for you 33, those who act contrary to Christ's teachings are not really "Christians," then, by definition then, are they! You betch your hiney, they aren't. Where do you get the nonsense of ALL monotheistic folks practicing incest at the time of Christ? Judaism was/is monotheistic last I heard ,and, long before Christ Leviticus banned incest, buggery, bufu, and marrying your sister in law ("at least until your wife was no longer alive to keep the bloodlines straight," says Dr. Laura Schlessinger in her boom "The 10 Commandments"). Don't you dare retort either, unless you are without sin.



Posted at 1:54AM on Apr 1st 2008 by Lou Shyster, Esq.

43. Merriam-Webster dictionary
Pedophilia: sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object.

Woody + naked pics of his children's 14 year old sister = perv.

Posted at 1:54AM on Apr 1st 2008 by no, give US a break.

44. Well the court in our current culture of sexual panic tends to blow things up and divorce lawyers LOVE to blow things up to position certain parties in divorces for the best possible outcome. The family courts are running amok unchecked, while the sexual panic takes over the consciousness of people everywhere. When you consider Canada just recently upped their age of consent to SIXTEEN from FOURTEEN it shows how social constructs do not imply absolute universal evil. What was illegal and perfectly normal yesterday, may become pervy and thus, by definition, damaging the next. A few years of drinking the kool aid and it is damaging. Hey, the voices of reason are nowhere to be found.

Posted at 1:57AM on Apr 1st 2008 by ohGimmeABreak

45. This man should have been put behind bars a long time ago with the rest of the child predators. He makes me wanna puke and every movie he has made sucked @ss.

Posted at 1:59AM on Apr 1st 2008 by jstew

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