Home : Celebrity Justice : Spitz Gets Soap-A-Doped by God Freaks

Celebrity Justice
Spitz Gets Soap-A-Doped by God Freaks

Posted May 28th 2008 1:14PM by TMZ Staff

Mark Spitz -- the guy who won seven swimming gold medals back at the 1972 Olympics -- says a freaky-weird soap company is killing him one bottle at a time, and he wants them to stop ... or at least pay him for it.

Spitz is PO'd because, he says in a lawsuit, he's mentioned in the same breath on the labels of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps as a bunch of guys like Jesus, Mohammed, Lenin, Carl Sagan, and Einstein -- all of whom are dead. Not only that, he says his name is being used to push the line of hippie soaps without his permission, and if the company's going to call him a prophet, which they do, he wants to see some, ahem, profit.

We put in a call to the company, and they tell us they'll give Spitz free soap for life and make a donation to the charity of his choice -- if he settles.


Tags: Dr. Bronners Magic Soaps, Dr.BronnersMagicSoaps, Mark Spitz, MarkSpitz, olympic swimmer, OlympicSwimmer

Comments [26]
SHARE |
4ie6

Reader Comments

(Page 2 of 2) Previous 15 Comments

16. Gee, a bunch of personal attacks on Spitz with a bunch of endorsements of the product unfairly and illegally using his name -- and constant name-dropping of the product (guess I have amnesia) -- looks like is haunting the site. I don't know Mark Spitz, except by reputation, and have no stake in this, but this was so obvious I had to comment.

Posted at 7:01PM on May 28th 2008 by ES

17. "as a bunch of guys like Jesus, Mohammed, Lenin, Carl Sagan, and Einstein -- all of whom are dead."
JESUS IS NOT DEAD.

Posted at 7:53PM on May 28th 2008 by Ramona

18. Ramona, you are right! He is in the kitchen, doing dishes.

Posted at 10:17PM on May 28th 2008 by Balistic

19. Better Spitz than Spitzer if you're takin' lathering up.

I remember him with a mustache..yummy.

Posted at 9:16PM on May 28th 2008 by Queen of Outer Space

20. They can use my name if they give me some soap, I LOVE their soap. If MS tried the peppermint liquid soap he'd wake up and be happy they are honoring him by mentioning him. They are not trying to use him to sell more soap, they are just a fun creative company.

Posted at 8:39PM on May 28th 2008 by luvgoldens

21. The last I checked, Jesus ROSE from the dead. Can't say that about Mohammed.

Posted at 9:37PM on May 28th 2008 by sayanything

22. I LOVE Dr. Brooner's Soaps. best stuff I have every used!

and if anyone has ever owned a bottle - you know how much crap is printed all over the label. I would need some Old Lady reading glasses to even catch mark Spitz name on there.

Does everything need to have a damn lawsuit about it?

Posted at 10:07PM on May 28th 2008 by wryknow

23. Dr. Bronner's rocks. Stuff is super concentrated, lasts forever.

Posted at 7:13AM on May 29th 2008 by beth

24. oh god. not dr. bronner's! the communal rastaman myth goes, that if you rinse yer baby with it right after birth, and douse on some patchuli, it'll turn it blonde and blue eyed!

Posted at 5:19AM on May 29th 2008 by don't hate-- i just got it like that.

25. FTR-Jesus is NOT dead.

Posted at 9:27AM on May 29th 2008 by notamused

26. Dr. Bronners is a wonderful company--they use recycled, sustainable ingredients and packaging and give TONS of their profits to charities. Spitz should be honored to be recognized by this company. But if he continues to be a "hippie hater", then why not take their offer? I assume they will take his name off the label, he gets free soap for life AND he gets money to his favorite charity! What is wrong with him? He wants the money for himself I bet! This guy is a whiner who wants the spotlight again.

See: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=afp-oly2008swimusaspitz&prov=afp&type=lgns

He just wants to get attention because Phelps is doing so well and is about to break all of his records. :P

Posted at 3:55PM on Aug 11th 2008 by bronnersisawesome

Previous 15 Comments