St. Louis — The company that makes "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs is seeking to overturn a verdict awarding nearly $6 million to a St. Louis-area woman who claims her bare breasts were recorded without permission.
St. Louis Circuit Judge John Garvey last month sided with Tamara Favazza in her suit against Mantra Films Inc. and Mra Holdings LLC, awarding her $5.77 million. She was a 20-year-old college student in 2005 when someone lifted her tank top during a party at a St. Louis bar, exposing her breasts. Another person filmed it. She later discovered the recording was part of the "Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy" DVD series.
Favazza claimed in the suit originally filed in 2008 that she did not give consent and the resulting DVD damaged her reputation. A St. Louis jury sided with the DVD makers in 2010, but a retrial was granted.
Garvey issued his ruling on March 5. On Wednesday, the defendants filed...
St. Louis Circuit Judge John Garvey last month sided with Tamara Favazza in her suit against Mantra Films Inc. and Mra Holdings LLC, awarding her $5.77 million. She was a 20-year-old college student in 2005 when someone lifted her tank top during a party at a St. Louis bar, exposing her breasts. Another person filmed it. She later discovered the recording was part of the "Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy" DVD series.
Favazza claimed in the suit originally filed in 2008 that she did not give consent and the resulting DVD damaged her reputation. A St. Louis jury sided with the DVD makers in 2010, but a retrial was granted.
Garvey issued his ruling on March 5. On Wednesday, the defendants filed...
- 4/27/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
By Adam Frazier
Hollywoodnews.com: With the untimely passing of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, you may have heard mention of The 27 Club. The term is used to refer to the remarkably high statistical spike of musicians who have died at the age of 27. The term was first coined in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s with the death of four influential musicians.
Guitarist and founding member of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, drowned in a swimming pool on July 3, 1969 at the age of 27. On September 18, 1970, legendary electric guitarist Jimi Hendrix died. The autopsy showed he asphyxiated on vomit after a deadly cocktail of sleeping pills and wine. His age was 27 years and 295 days.
Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose a month later on October 4, 1970. She was 27. Jim Morrison (lead singer/songwriter for The Doors) died on July 3, 1971 (the exact same day, three years later, as Brian Jones) from an apparent heart failure,...
Hollywoodnews.com: With the untimely passing of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, you may have heard mention of The 27 Club. The term is used to refer to the remarkably high statistical spike of musicians who have died at the age of 27. The term was first coined in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s with the death of four influential musicians.
Guitarist and founding member of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, drowned in a swimming pool on July 3, 1969 at the age of 27. On September 18, 1970, legendary electric guitarist Jimi Hendrix died. The autopsy showed he asphyxiated on vomit after a deadly cocktail of sleeping pills and wine. His age was 27 years and 295 days.
Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose a month later on October 4, 1970. She was 27. Jim Morrison (lead singer/songwriter for The Doors) died on July 3, 1971 (the exact same day, three years later, as Brian Jones) from an apparent heart failure,...
- 7/25/2011
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com.Anyone who watched American Idol this year knows that Aerosmith front man/national treasure Steven Tyler has a way with words, but the verdict was out whether he could sustain his linguistic, shall we say, flash over the course of a book without driving his readers to throw the volume across the room in frustration like it was Ulysses. It turns out, with a little help from veteran music writer David Dalton, Tyler can. His memoir reveals much about the poet who penned American classics such as “The buzz that you be getting from the crack don’t last / I’d rather be O.D.in’ on the crack o’ your ass.” Here are the top 10 most terrific revelations that Tyler shares with us, his loyal readers.
- 5/9/2011
- Vanity Fair
"I snorted my plane, I snorted my house," Steven Tyler admits in his new memoir, penned with founding Rolling Stone editor, David Dalton. According to The Hollywood Reporter, who read "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?" so we don't have to, drugs are a constant throughout the entire book.
Tyler talks about getting high as a kid, about bonding over drugs with band buddy Joe Perry, and keeping them hidden in a drum so he can get to them onstage. Over the years, relapses, and eight different rehab centers, Tyler estimates he spent $20 million on drugs. With that kind of money he could have just funded his own cartel.
Much of what Tyler reminisces about is already known from the earlier Aerosmith biography, "Walk This Way," which was co-written with the band, but at least one new bit is revealed about the Demon of Screamin' and his proposition to Joan Jett.
Tyler talks about getting high as a kid, about bonding over drugs with band buddy Joe Perry, and keeping them hidden in a drum so he can get to them onstage. Over the years, relapses, and eight different rehab centers, Tyler estimates he spent $20 million on drugs. With that kind of money he could have just funded his own cartel.
Much of what Tyler reminisces about is already known from the earlier Aerosmith biography, "Walk This Way," which was co-written with the band, but at least one new bit is revealed about the Demon of Screamin' and his proposition to Joan Jett.
- 5/8/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
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