Another Overweight Woman Sues Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels of "Biggest Loser" fame has been sued for a second time in as many days over a weight loss product a consumer claims is "worthless."
Stephanie Creer claims in her class action lawsuit she has struggled with weight loss her entire life and was "intrigued" into purchasing the product Calorie Control because Michaels was endorsing it.
You know the story ... Creer didn't lose a pound so she's suing.
What's interesting: The suit is almost a verbatim copy of another class action suit filed against Michael's yesterday -- a suit which also alleges Calorie Control is bogus. But this suit was filed by a different set of lawyers.
After the first suit was filed, Michael's rep told TMZ the product was vetted by experts before Jillian put her name on it and she is confident she'll prevail in court.
More Jillian Michaels
'Biggest Loser' Star - Big Fat Liar ... Allegedly
Based on the weight of the evidence "The Biggest Loser" star Jillian Michaels is pulling a dietary fast one on the American public for profit ... according to a new class action lawsuit.
According to documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court, the Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control dietary supplement is "worthless."
The lawyer who filed the suit, Melissa Harnett, tells TMZ, "Telling people you take two magic pills and then eat chocolate cake all day is a deception."
The suit alleges, "Sadly, Michaels has decided to exploit her fame and goodwill by collaborating with Thin Care and Basic Research to promote a weight loss supplement that purportedly will cause weight loss by itself, without any additional effort on the part of the consumer."
The suit asks for an injunction prohibiting the sale of the product, plus damages.
UPDATE: Jillian has released the following statement:
"Unfortunately, anyone can file a lawsuit in California. All it takes is a $355 filing fee. That research was reviewed by some of the leading weight-loss experts in the world before Jillian would put her name on the product.
The lawsuit will be handled in the courts like all other lawsuits, and we are confident we will prevail."
More "Biggest Loser"
'Biggest Loser' Wedding Let Them Eat Cake
They lost a combined 264 pounds since being on "The Biggest Loser" -- but this weekend, Nicole Brewer and Damien Gurganious decided their wedding was the perfect chance to let their diet slide a little bit!
TMZ got a copy of the menu for their big day in Long Island this past Sunday, where they did a pretty good job of serving healthy low-fat meals -- with the exception of the super-delicious cake! Not that we blame them one bit...
Appetizers: miniature meat rolls, spring rolls and crab cakes
Entrees: fish, sauteed chicken and grilled beef
Cake: sweet potato-praline/vanilla, Bourbon-butterscotch layered cake filled with bourbon infused candied sweet potato and hazelnut buttercream
Sidenote: Jillian Michaels did not jump out of the cake and force everyone who had a piece to run up a mountainside until they puked.
'Biggest Loser' Trainer Involved in Big Fat Fight
Jillian Michaels, the no nonsense trainer on "The Biggest Loser" who whips overweight contestants into shape, dealt with her own weighty drama in West Hollywood last night -- some d-bag called her fat.
Jillian's male friend and everyone else outside Guy's came to her rescue, but we're pretty sure she could have regulated the creep on her own.
See also
'Biggest Loser' Star I Got Screwed on Tape
One of the hard body trainers from "The Biggest Loser" claims she's feelin' the burn from an exercise video deal gone bad -- and now she's suing the spandex off the company behind the DVDs.
Jillian Michaels claims she should have raked in more than $550,000 in royalties and bonuses from her 2005 instructional tape series "The Biggest Winner: How to Win By Losing" -- instead she claims all she got was a measly $100,000 cash advance.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court, Michaels claims Genius Products -- the home video company -- utilized "fraudulent and unfair accounting methods so as to avoid paying additional sums."
Michaels also claims Genius refused to sell videos on request "in an attempt to avoid paying Plaintiff additional bonuses."
Now she's looking for some serious jack -- at least $550k -- to "punish [Genius] for wrongdoing."
Calls to Genius have not been returned.
See also
'Biggest Loser' Accused of Screwing Chubb-y
A guy who won $100K on "The Biggest Loser" is facing some heavy jail time for allegedly trying to bilk an insurance company out of $63,000.
Season one loser David Fioravanti just was indicted by a Massachusetts grand jury on seven counts of insurance fraud -- he allegedly tried to insure $63K worth of jewels that he already had reported as stolen a year before, reports the Boston Globe. And he tried to perpetrate this scheme not once, but twice, says the DA.
And get this -- one of the allegedly victimized insurance companies was named ... Chubb Insurance!!!
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
'Biggest Loser' Winner Giant Pain in the Neck
With a name like Matt Hoover, you'd expect that the "Biggest Loser" champ would suck at personal training. Well, if you believe a new neck-breaking lawsuit, he's an even bigger loser than you thought.
Clarissa Sanford claims she hired Hoover in 2006 to tone her ass up at Vision Quest Sports and Fitness in King County, Washington. She says Hoover not only was late and careless, but also, instead of spotting her, he walked away while she was bench pressing 40 pounds of weight. Sandford says by the time he returned the weight crashed down on her neck.
As a result, Sanford says she suffered "serious neck injuries which ultimately required a five-level fusion surgery from the C3 through C7 levels of her cervical spine."
She's suing Hoover and VQS for unspecified damages.
Hoover and club couldn't immediately be reached for comment.