And here I thought that eTrade ad with the promiscuous babies was just dumb. Not sure if it has actually inspired anyone to trade, but it has inspired litigation. Lindsay Lohan, who has decided she is the only Lindsay in the universe, is suing for $100 million plus an injunction because naming the milkaholic baby “Lindsay” is ruining her rep:
Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned. The actress filed a lawsuit yesterday in Nassau County Supreme Court over the commercial that debuted during the Super Bowl this year. The ad — part of a series starring babies who play the stock market — features a boy apologizing to his girlfriend via video chat for not calling her the night before.
“And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn’t over?” the baby girl asks him suspiciously. “Lindsay?” the boy replies, just before a baby girl sticks her head into the frame and slurs, “Milk-a-what?”
Really?
We’d like to suggest that perhaps she stick to designing leggings with kneepads. No chance she’s going to win this one so unless she is really only looking for footage for the world’s shortest courtroom drama, I Know Who Dismissed Me, we really don’t get it.
And edited to add, we have found evidence of milkaholism:
The ad in question:
Jason // Mar 9, 2010 at 10:45 am
If I could Photoshop faster I woulda been all over this. Alas, my desire to actually put Lindsay in the ad was my downfall.
LOLO,ESQ // Mar 9, 2010 at 10:46 am
lol @ i know who dismissed me
alyx // Mar 9, 2010 at 10:58 am
it would be even better if the baby took HER to court for defamation and the movie was I KNOW WHO COUNTERSUED ME
lavacake // Mar 9, 2010 at 10:58 am
“…modeled after her”
So, basically she’s admitting that she is a boyfriend-stealing slut. Wonder what kind of “milk” she’d been taking when she thought up this lawsuit.
alyx // Mar 9, 2010 at 11:07 am
Definitely, since she isn’t claiming defamation and she’s just claiming it’s her name and likeness. Had she claimed defamation I think e-trade would’ve been all like, ain’t no defense like an affirmative defense…
Jason // Mar 9, 2010 at 11:18 am
The more I look at this, the more it creeps me out.
http://i46.tinypic.com/2aerw51.jpg
alyx // Mar 9, 2010 at 11:24 am
HAHAHAH it totally does.
Jason // Mar 9, 2010 at 11:54 am
It’s like Aphex Twin did a video for Come To Lindsay.
Nisses // Mar 9, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Wow… and I can’t help but feel sympathy for milk… milk can’t sue, can it? It should! I mean, milk connected to this Lohan character… blasphemy
alyx // Mar 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I updated the post, as milk apparently went down this sordid road a long time ago, and probably wishes it could live this moment down: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/17/21242307_396b4f7b6a.jpg