Celebrity Justice
Tony Robbins Unleashes the Power of Lawsuit

Tony Robbins claims a competing motivational speaker has stolen his schtick, so he's suing the dude.
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In the lawsuit, "Banana Hands" Robbins claims the wife of Stephen Pierce -- the other motivational dude -- used a small camera to record almost 50 minutes of a speech Stephen gave at one of Robbins' seminars. Pierce then posted the video on his website, and encouraged his readers to skip Robbins' $8,000 seminar and buy his video instead. Self-help yourself, folks!

The firewalking guru is also claiming that Pierce posted a fraudulent statement on his website claiming that he got permission from Robbins to film the speech and make it available for public sale.

Robbins is suing for all profits Pierce made via the unlawful use of Robbins' likeness. Calls to Pierce's camp were not returned.

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16. Just do a search on Robbins and look at his history with the SEC. He has settled with them so many times the paper could choke a range full of horses.

Posted at 4:39PM on Apr 24th 2008 by BP

17. comment #11, if you went to a Tony Robbins seminar it doesn't seem to have made you any smarter, you sure didn't learn how to spell...

Posted at 4:43PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Katrina

18. Susie drank the Kool aide. Susie, it was your own power, not his.

Posted at 4:41PM on Apr 24th 2008 by BP

19. You can go to a Dale Carnegie course for a hell of alot less and, get the same thing out of it!!!!! Robbins is just "newer"!

Posted at 4:52PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Disgusted in Dallas

20. #14 u need someone to explain...i will for u...tony shows u how to use what u already have.....u must be be sipping more then kool-aid.........

Posted at 4:57PM on Apr 24th 2008 by susie

21. Susie, they are to far gone!

Posted at 5:00PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Disgusted in Dallas

22. JEALOUS..........U ALL COULD USE HIS PROGRAMS........

Posted at 5:03PM on Apr 24th 2008 by susie

23. Tony Robbins is absolutley amazing! He changed my life and the funny thing is I met my Husbsand at his fabulous seminar Date With Destiny in 2004. Don't knock it until you try it!

Oh and can you negative people walk on fire?

Posted at 6:03PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Destiny 04

24. TONY ROBBINS is a genius..he has made a living out of motivating dumb dodos who cant live their lives without people like Tony telling them how to be happy...bunch of sheep in this land...more power to him..

Posted at 5:54PM on Apr 24th 2008 by rob

25. Stephen Pierce is one of the most ethical marketers out there. We are talking about someone who went from ghetto to the top. And he never, ever forgot his roots.

Stephen gives away more information in a week than Tony Robbins does in a lifetime.

Plus his wife Alicia is one of the sweetest people in the world.

Stephen doesn't need to steal Tony's material. He has his own motivational story to tell.

And he didn't sell the video, he gave it away.

Stephen would never tell someone not to purchase one of Tony's products - even after this sham lawsuit is filed.

The Pierces are a class act!

Posted at 6:08PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Dr K

26. one statement.............those who can't do, teach how to

Posted at 6:47PM on Apr 24th 2008 by JBoogie

27. That firewalk thing is a trick, anyhow. He tries to convince people that they are prevented from being burned through the power of their minds. The truth is that wood embers are a slow conductor of heat; the soles of your feet are slow conductors of heat as well. If you walk at a moderate pace, you should not get burned. This is just a fact. But Tony Robbins tries to make people think he has some kind of "power."

In that sense, I think he is a little bit fraudulent.

Posted at 7:36PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Hippo

28. To comment number 12 - i've heard that Tony pulls that crap a lot. Did she fall for it and mess around with him? If so, you may have a lawsuit of your own.

Posted at 8:40PM on Apr 24th 2008 by mk02cd1

29. Tony doesn't drink milk......He says milk "clogs the body".....

Posted at 8:07PM on Apr 24th 2008 by chicken stripper

30. Ahhhhh, litigious douchebaggery - one of the last phases one passes through, on the way to obscurity & complete cultural irrelevance.

Way to go, Banana Hands!

Posted at 10:44PM on Apr 24th 2008 by Chicken Bittle

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