Dita Von Teese just won big in court -- because a judge has ordered the burlesquer's landlord to cough up her $5,000 security deposit ... a year after he allegedly targeted Von Teese in
an anti-Semitic rant.
As TMZ previously reported, Von Teese sued her former landlord -- a guy named Lallubhai Patel -- claiming he refused to cough up her deposit when she decided to move ... then "went on Mel Gibson-like Anti-Semitic tangents, personally attacking [Dita's] Jewish managers."
Patel filed a countersuit, claiming Dita -- who's represented by attorney Keith Fink -- caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to the property -- and that's why he refused to refund her deposit.
But a judge just ruled in Dita's favor by default -- finding her landlord ignored multiple court orders to provide essential information in the case. In other words, he fell off the map.
The landlord is now on notice to return Dita's $5,000 security deposit -- and once the judge enters a formal judgment in Dita's favor (a mere technicality) he'll have to pay up ... or else.
With their red lips in tow, stripperific
Dita Von Teese and
Black Eyed Peas lady singer
Fergie both glammed it up at an amfAR gala in Paris on Thursday.
Question is ...
Funny ... she doesn't look Jewish ... but
Dita Von Teese claims she was on the receiving end of a
Mel Gibson-like anti-Semitic rant ... courtesy of her former landlord.
In a lawsuit filed today in L.A. County Superior Court and obtained by TMZ ... Von Teese claims she told her landlord she would be moving out and request the return of her $5,000 security deposit.
Von Teese says she wasn't getting any action in the security deposit department, so she had her managers contact the landlord. According to the suit, that's when the landlord "went on Mel Gibson-like Anti-Semitic tangents, personally attacking Plaintiff's Jewish managers and business managers ... and writing to Plaintiff (Von Teese) that she should 'beware of Jews. In your business no one can do anything without them.'"
In the lawsuit, Von Teese's lawyer, Keith Fink, mentions other alleged correspondence: "Jews they have shucks (sic) the whole world dry and still more to come."
The landlord could not be reached for comment.
Manson survivors
Evan Rachel Wood, 22,
and
Dita Von Teese, 37, didn't cross pale paths while at the same event in NYC on Thursday.
Question is ...
Asking seemingly bloodless Dita Von Teese if she's a vampire is a fair question ... but not when she's walking around in broad
daylight. Someone needs to brush up on their "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
The giant glass swan Dita Von Teese uses as a prop in her burlesque performances is back with mama.
As
TMZ first reported, Dita sued, claiming the bird was bunk, and when she returned it for repairs, the swan-fixer kept it.
Now that the bird has returned to the roost, she's filed to dismiss the suit.
Jason Lewis was all about getting his spit all over our camera again -- and our photog couldn't be happier.
Also in NY: Ricki Lake couldn't control her laughter when asked about John Mayer, Helena Christensen got snubbed by an ageist and Dita Von Teese lamented her lost swan.
In LA: Deepak Chopra had some truly hilarious insight into Oprah Winfrey, Djimon Hounsou reacted to the most random compliment ever, Lindsay Lohan actually looked happy and Bai Ling was as spacey as ever.
Dita Von Teese made a sex tape back in the day, but the only thing one pap cared about was her co-star -- the precariously heeled stiletto!
The photogs sounded a little
too interested in knowing where that shoe came from, if you catch our drift.
Oh my goth! There is actually a woman who wears more white pancake makeup than Marilyn Manson's ex-wife Dita Von Teese (
right) -- Marilyn Manson's 20-year-old girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood (
left). The, er, beautiful people!
Evan revealed her Von Teesian Rigor mortis chic at a NYC film screening on Tuesday.
How long before Evan's
girl-on-girl-on-shoe porn surfaces?!
Burlesque stripper Dita Von Teese has a hardcore shoe fetish!
A triple X flick from 1999 called "Pin Ups 2" -- which features Dita having raunchy girl-on-girl-on-shoe(!) sex -- has surfaced on the Internet and show just how much Marilyn Manson's ex really likes her pumps. You read correctly -- Dita does it with a shoe! These aren't your grandmother's stilettos!
While Dita's porn past may turn out to be her Achilles'
heel, she is definitely a shoe-in for an AVN Award!
Typically, TMZ cameras need plenty of light to shoot on the dark streets of Manhattan's West Village. Last night, that wouldn't have been necessary.
That's because dancer-model-burlesquer Dita Von Teese lit up the evening outside the Waverly Inn with her preternaturally white face, a visage so glowingly bright it looked as if the moon had descended to street level.
There's alabaster, and then there's Dita. Eat your heart out Nicole Kidman!
