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Parker, Broderick in Legal Face-Off
Sarah Jessica Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick are incensed over some scents.
The celeb couple are suing a cosmetics company for $15 million for allegedly using their famous mugs without permission to promote a line of fragrances, according to documents obtained by the Smoking Gun.
The lawsuit, filed January 10 in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses beauty-products retailer Sephora USA of trading on Broderick and Parker's good looks by including a photo of them in a 2001 Valentine's Day advertising campaign titled "L'eau down on celebrity sweethearts," which teamed various Hollywood twosomes with a matchmaking scent.
Quoth the suit: "Defendants touted Sephora and the sale of their products by associating them with Parker and Broderick's highly valuable names and images, in order to make it appear to potential customers that Parker and Broderick had consented to endorsing Defendants' merchandise in California, the United States and elsewhere in the world."
In Parker and Broderick's case, the offending brochure featured a photograph of the duo next to bottles of fragrances with the headline "Matthew & Sarah...They're famous, happily married and madly in love," accompanied by text plugging the perfume lines "For Him" and "For Her," along with the prices.
While it sounds like a Sex and the City episode (after all, we already know how Carrie feels about having her face on the side of a bus), it's actually a rerun of another suit filed last September against Sephora by Hollywood exes Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman for the exact same thing.
The former marrieds took Sephora to court for $15 million for misappropriating their glamorous countenances in a similar Valentine's Day ad.
In addition to the $15 million, Parker, 37, and Broderick, 40, seek punitive damages against Sephora for wrongful use of their names and image.
Protecting their images is hugely important to Hollywood types, since it can impact their marketability and future paychecks--something duly noted by Parker's publicist.
"Sephora used Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's names and photographs to endorse Sephora and its products in an advertising campaign without the couple's consent," the rep said in a statement. "Sarah and Matthew vigorously protect their names and photographs if they are commercially exploited without their permission."
Reps for Sephora were unavailable to comment on the court tangle.
The lawsuit is but the latest joint production for the pair. Last October, Parker gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named James Wilke Broderick.
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