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Stern Settles with "Hot"-ties
Howard Stern has issued a cease fire order against the TV producers he'd originally accused of ripping off his raunchy morning show.
The syndicated radio jock has settled his lawsuit against the producers of ABC's Are You Hot, Mike Fleiss and Scott Einziger, whom he had accused of stealing from his syndicated radio show and ruining a TV deal he had in the works.
Details of the settlement, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court and published on the Smoking Gun Website, were not revealed.
Calls to Stern's manager and attorney were not returned Thursday.
In March, Stern filed a $10 million suit against ABC, Telepictures, Fleiss and Einziger calling the Alphabet series, featuring Lorenzo Lamas and Rachel Hunter, a "blatant rip-off" of The Evaluators, a segment on his show which involves naked women, a panel of judges and a laser pointer. (Highbrow it ain't.)
Stern had ranted publicly on the airwaves against Einziger, a one-time executive producer on Stern's E! Entertainment Television series, and former sidekick Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling, who had been hired as a consultant on Hot.
According to the self-proclaimed King of all Media, the poorly rated ABC series scuttled his own pseudo-pageant deal with another network, possibly a pay-cable channel that "could have shown nudity."
"It was all a done deal, and then, after the ABC show came out, they called me up and said: 'No deal. We don't want to rip them off, and we don't want to seem derivative and...the ratings are horrible,' " Stern complained at the time.
One month after his original petition, Stern filed a motion to dismiss, withdrawing his complaint against ABC. No word on what motivated the move, but litigants usually seek a motion to dismiss following an out-of-court settlement.
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