Paris Hilton sues Web site displaying her property

[tjw61]

Paris Hilton sues Web site displaying her property


Paris Hilton has sued to shut down a Web site that displays her diaries, photos and other personal property in what lawyers for the celebrity heiress call "one of the most reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed."

Hilton's lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, says her belongings were taken from storage after a moving company failed to pay the bill and pictures of them exhibited on the Internet to anyone paying a $39.97 fee to the Web site ParisExposed.com.

"This action seeks to enjoin perhaps one of the most single egregious and reprehensible invasions of privacy ever committed against an individual," Hilton's attorneys wrote in the lawsuit, which claims copyright infringement, invasion of privacy and violation of her right to publicity.

According to the lawsuit, the items were put in storage two years ago by Hilton, 25, when she and her 23-year-old sister, Nicky, moved out of their Los Angeles home, and that they arranged for a moving company to handle the rent.

When the moving company neglected to pay the bills, the lawsuit says, the contents of Hilton's storage locker were sold for $2,775 to defendants Nabil and Nabila Haniss. They, in turn, sold Hilton's belongings to Bardia Persa for $10 million, who displayed them on a Web site called ParisExposed.com.

"I was appalled to learn that people are exploiting my and my sisters' private personal belongings for commercial gain," Hilton, star of the reality TV series "The Simple Life," said in a declaration attached to the lawsuit.

Representatives for the defendants could not be reached for comment. The Web site was still operating on Tuesday.

[Symian]

*shrugs*

You pay the rent or you lose the stuff. Simple. You don't trust a third-noninterested-party to pay your bill for you. You don't leave stuff in storage for 2 years and not update the storage facility with your addresses and so forth. Paris has NO case against the website as the items were sold at auction. She DOES have a case against the moving company IF and only if she had paid them to pay the bill for all this time... but she has no rights to regain the property.

If she had only given her address to the storage facility this would never have happened. Tough luck for her.

[computer2slow]

With her money you buy the storage comany.

[Chief]

Wait..whats that

lawsuit says, the contents of Hilton's storage locker were sold for $2,775 to defendants Nabil and Nabila Haniss. They, in turn, sold Hilton's belongings to Bardia Persa for $10 million

Not a bad profit margin is it?

[Symian]

Originally Posted by Chief

Wait..whats that

Not a bad profit margin is it?

Not at all! I WISH I'd even come across something like that deal. Spend $2 grand, sell for $10 mil.

*sighs*

The fun part of this is... the folks who won the auction could not legally offer to sell it back to Paris for more than they paid for the storage (actually, only a percentage of the total. If the tapes and diaries were 2% of what was in the storage, they could only ask for that 2%, otherwise she could claim that they were trying to blackmail her).

Remember what happened to the photographer who was being nice by offering Cameron Diaz first dibs on the negatives and video (though it turned out she never really signed a release) from her "raunchy" past. He was charged with extortion. Had he NEVER offered to sell to her first, he'd have never been charged for "blackmail". He really should have just sold to the highest bidder and dealt with the civil suit later, never risking jail.

[ken]

Man that gal is one more dope head. No wonder she seems so out of it.

[try2learn]

I guess it just goes to show, having money doesn't mean you have any brains or the people that work for you have any either. Clueless.