Author: Jerry Seinfeld Terrifies Little Girls
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And Jerry Seinfeld thought he had issues with Newman.
A cookbook author suing Seinfeld for defamation for some wisecracks on the Late Show With David Letterman, is blasting the funnyman in a new court filing.
Missy Chase Lapine claims the funnyman's remarks comparing her with some of history's most notorious killers were so off the mark that they left her and her little girl terrified.
"I have never felt so frightened and vulnerable as the day my daughter, 7-years-old, came home from school and asked, 'Mom, what is an assassin?' " Lapine says in a an affidavit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court, per the New York Daily News.
And then he stole her lollipop and kicked her puppy. OK, we made that part up. But here's a quick recap of where things stand...
During his Late Show segment, Letterman asked Seinfeld about Lapine's allegations his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, stole ideas from Lapine's The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals for the missus' bestselling Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.
"Wackos will wait in the woodwork to pop out at certain moments of your life to inject a little adrenaline into your life experience," Seinfeld quipped, adding that Lapine uses three names, not unlike James Earl Ray or Mark David Chapman.
Lapine lashed out by launching a defamation suit against Seinfeld and a copyright-infringement complaint against Jessica.
In her court papers, the writer claims that she filed her legal action after Seinfeld's comments attacking her. She states that she went on the offensive only after various press reports noted the similarities between the two books.
"I started feeling scared," she writes. "I thought I made a big mistake talking to any reporters because now this billionaire is angry and attacking me everywhere."
Lapine also defends her action, saying she did not sue "to gain media attention, enrich myself or harass the Seinfelds."
"I was not lying in wait for an opportunity to become embroiled in a controversy with any celebrity," she says, adding that she's not a "celebrity stalker," not a "violent or dangerous person."
In reaction to yesterday's filing, Seinfeld's camp said he was merely doing what he always does—making a funny.
"As a comedian, Jerry has a right under the First Amendment to tell jokes," his attorneys say in a statement. "Ms. Lapine, on the other hand, was not joking when she maliciously accused Jessica Seinfeld, who also has young children, of plagiarism, a charge that is demonstrably false."
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