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Lindsay Guard Sues Star in Wrong-Name Game
As it happens, former Lindsay Lohan bodyguard Andrae Renard didn't sell a sordid tell-all to Star magazine last summer. But he may have found another way of cashing in on the tabloid.
The burly security man has filed suit against Star and parent company American Media Inc., claiming libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence after the glossy ran a photo of Renard alongside an article dishing on Lohan—scoop that was actually proffered by a different former bodyguard to the troubled actress.
In his lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday, Renard claims he "has suffered, and will continue to suffer, irreparable damage to his reputation and career as a result" of the misidentification. He seeks unspecified compensatory and exemplary damages, as well as compensation of his legal fees.
As an exhibit, the lawsuit includes photocopies of the article that ran in the June 25 issue. A picture of Renard alongside Lohan accompanies the breatlhessly titled story, "Lindsay's Bodyguard Bares All! Her Sick, Secret World." Appearing beneath the headline, Star teases thusly: "The drugs, the guns, the wild sex and the cutting—the man who witnessed it all reveals Lindsay Lohan's darkest moments."
Problem is, while Renard's visage was depicted, the caption misidentifies him as "former Green Beret Lee Weaver," the ex-bodyguard who truly did flap his gums about his onetime charge.
But Star's editor in chief Candace Trunzo tried to temper Renard's claim.
"As soon as Star was notified that we identified the wrong bodyguard in the photo caption of the Lohan bodyguard tell-all, Star immediately withdrew the article from its Website and corrected, retracted and apologized for the error," she said in a statement.
In his lawsuit, Renard, who worked for Lohan from October 2004 through March 2005, claims the false ID has cost him his credibility as an A-list bodyguard and, subsequently, has deprived him of his primary source of income.
Renard, who also goes by the name "Doc," says in the suit that, "as a result of the article, colleagues have questioned, and continue to question, [my] character and ability to serve as a celebrity bodyguard."
Adding insult to injury, Renard also claims that since the article was published, he has been banned from entering "certain elite Hollywood nightclubs, venues which have once been [Renard's] primary sources of celebrity contacts and future employment as a bodyguard, security guard and actor."
He further asserts that the published photograph and its negative connotations puts him at risk of losing his current job, serving as a security guard at an unnamed Hollywood nightclub.
Shortly after making the captioning blunder, Star corrected the mistake on its Website and further issued a published retraction of the story in its July 23 edition.
"In our article...we mistakenly identified Lohan's bodyguard as 'former Green Beret Lee Weaver.' The man shown in the photograph is not, in fact, Lee Weaver, the person who 'bared all' about Lindsay," the correction stated.
"Rather, the photograph is of Andrae 'Doc' Newman, a professional bodyguard for the past 20 years who was completely unrelated to the story. Star sincerely regrets the error and apologizes to Mr. Newman."
Renard sometimes uses the surname Newman in his professional dealings.
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