Sunday, May 13, 2007

Celebrities and their Drugs



The lawyer of Paris Hilton recently demanded that blogs Dlisted and Gallery of the Absurd take down postings about an artwork satirizing the pill-popping princesses. The work shows the "Simple Life" stars sitting beside cases of herpes medication Valtrex and the opiate Vicoden. The lawyer proclaimed "This poster clearly implies Ms. Hilton has loathsome diseases and also implies Ms. Hilton uses Vicodin. The inferences . . . are false and defamatory." False and defamatory? Really?

A prescription of Valtrex for Hilton was found in a storage facility that she abandoned, and Richie admitted to cops she'd taken Vicoden after she was stopped for driving the wrong way on an LA highway.

But I'm suprised the pharma lawyers haven't written their own letters. Afterall, doesn't the artwork imply that loathsome people are taking these drugs?

LINK (Gallery of the Absurd)

LINK (DListed)

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