Anna Nicole Smith
Firm Sues Von Dutch …
Hold Your Fingers Off Anna’s Reminiscence!!!
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The corporate that controls Anna Nicole Smith‘s mental property rights goes after the style model Von Dutch … claiming they have been utilizing her picture to promote their attire with out permission.
The lawsuit states Von Dutch by no means obtained permission from the corporate — or permission from Anna previous to her demise in 2007 — to make use of her to promote merchandise that includes her identify, picture, or likeness.
Should you keep in mind Anna working with the corporate again within the day, she did come out with a line in partnership with them … however, the corporate says she by no means granted anybody at Von Dutch the best to make use of her picture.
BTW … in a Fb put up again in April, Von Dutch put up a photograph of Anna sporting a black cowboy hat with pink lettering from her look on “The Tonight Present with Jay Leno” in 2004.
They wrote within the caption, “Our iconic Anna Nicole Smith hat from her unique VD assortment” … however a supply conversant in the scenario tells us the hat wasn’t a part of any collab with the model — which is why she would not even point out it within the clip of Jay’s present.
Anna died of a drug overdose in 2007 … and, her daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, turned 18 final yr.
We have reached out to Von Dutch, Anna Nicole Smith Inc. and Birkhead … thus far, no phrase again.
