Celebrity Justice
Verne Troyer Sues TMZ

Posted Jun 27th 2008 9:04AM by TMZ Staff

Verne TroyerVerne Troyer has filed a $20 million lawsuit, claiming TMZ violated his rights by publishing and airing portions of his sex tape.

In the suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A., Troyer claims TMZ violated his privacy rights and infringed on his copyright and trademark by running portions of the tape on TMZ TV and TMZ.com. He also alleges TMZ violated his right of publicity and misappropriated his name and likeness.

Troyer says the tape was stolen and ended up in the hands of Kevin Blatt, the guy who distributed "One Night in Paris." Blatt is also named as a defendant.

In addition to damages, Troyer wants an injunction prohibiting further dissemination of the video.

Calls to TMZ were not returned.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice


Tags: Midget, Mini Me, MiniMe, Sex Tape, SexTape, Vern Troyer, VernTroyer

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1. Good thing Harvey Levin is a lawyer... wait... "I'm a lawyer!"

Posted at 10:44PM on Jun 26th 2008 by John

2. good for mini me

Posted at 10:45PM on Jun 26th 2008 by steve

3. I'd Watch His Sex Tape!!! = )

Posted at 10:46PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Spencer Lucas

4. "Calls to TMZ were not returned'

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 10:46PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Bustagut

5. Calls to TMZ were not returned.

Huh.. You are TMZ. How can they not be returned? Walk over and ask someone

Posted at 10:48PM on Jun 26th 2008 by David Wilson

6. Go Mini-Me - Kick TMZ's @$$!!!!

Posted at 10:48PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Oats

7. No "big" deal.

Posted at 10:48PM on Jun 26th 2008 by chicken stripper

8. um #5 its a joke DUH!

Posted at 10:50PM on Jun 26th 2008 by kaceerocks

9. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa calls to TMZ was not returned!!LOL.

Posted at 10:52PM on Jun 26th 2008 by sunny

10. Let this be the beginning of many more law suits to come ... it's about damn time!!!

Posted at 10:54PM on Jun 26th 2008 by TMZ Sucks

11.
so this little one's been
displayed on the big screen

and now he's coming
out of the closet ?

i'm sorry, i meant crawling out of
the cupboard with a lawsuit. ?

Posted at 10:55PM on Jun 26th 2008 by edmund kemper

12. It's ok Vern, it was just a little clip. Glad your PR is handling it for ya. Never go pee in a corner naked again on TV. PLEASE?

Posted at 10:55PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Kelli

13. That was too fast. It was up yesterday and today the suit is already filed and TMZ knows about it already? This was orchestrated to get more news, attention, traffic to TMZ and the ultimate distribution of this website. It's all an act for money.

The woman in the video is ugly and has no body. This will be her 15 seconds of fame, on a gossip site no less.

Posted at 10:58PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Mini Susie

14. Well he has to try and get money some how, it looks like the Love Guru isint going to do so well lol, Go back and do all that crappy Z-List stuff like the surreal life little man.

Posted at 10:59PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Jesse

15. LMAO I think #5 is having a blonde moment. "Calls to TMZ were not returned" was a joke! Get it? ROFLMAO

Posted at 11:01PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Jen

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