Britney Spears has filed a $20 million libel lawsuit against Us Weekly over a story that she and Kevin Federline had made a sex tape and were worried about its release.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, seeks $10 million in libel damages and $10 million for misappropriating the 24-year-old pop singer’s name and image to promote sales. It also seeks unspecified punitive damages. “We have a very credible source and we stand by our story,” Us Weekly spokesman Alex Dudley said Tuesday in a statement.
I could understand this if Us Weekly reported that Britney and Kevin keep enslaved midgets in their basement, but being worried about a sex tape doesn’t really call for a lawsuit. Are Britney and Kevin actually worried that the idea of a sex tape will ruin their public image? That’s like Hitler leaving a large tip at Denny’s because he doesn’t want people to think he’s a bad guy. Too little too late, man.
suzy | December 20, 2005 at 7:34 pm
she just needs the money
T-Bag | December 20, 2005 at 7:54 pm
Come on suzy put the glue down !
sedation | December 20, 2005 at 7:55 pm
i agree, she needs the cash – maybe this is her wierd way of auctioning the tape to the highest bidder. do we hear $10 million . . .
Georgia | December 20, 2005 at 8:14 pm
This happened so long ago and shes filing the suit now.
I don’t know what kind of image she is trying to protect, we all know she is a moronic slut with terrible choice in men. She ruined her own image, US weekly had nothing to do with it.
RissaRose | December 20, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Have any of you ever seen “Britney and Kevin:Chaotic” or whatever the hell that show was called? OF COURSE there’s a sex tape!
Bob Denver | December 20, 2005 at 10:08 pm
Sounds like someone needs some cash.
hafaball | December 20, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Oh yeah, this whole time I’ve been laughing about her going poor and losing all her lifelihood possessions that I forgot about the ole, “I’m suing your ass for uh…stuff,” trick. She could win, she could lose, but she’ll still have a brain dead husband and a could be brain dead baby.
Binky | December 20, 2005 at 11:20 pm
The last time I wanted to sue over one of my sex tapes – it was because they wanted to release it as a comedy. Come to think of it – that’s probably the lovely couple’s main concern.
But I’m a bit worried that these two haven’t been able to dissappear in peace to an upscale mobile home park to enjoy the Thursday night bingos. Time to move on US Weekly ! Might as well sue the bastards for ‘lack of news sense’!
Juliette | December 20, 2005 at 11:26 pm
She is just pissed because it is a nasty, gross tape that will be the final nail on her teen pop star coffin.
tori | December 21, 2005 at 1:11 am
oh god. that’s fucking ridiculous. she just needs the money because spenderline wasted it all away.
sedation | December 21, 2005 at 1:34 am
any bets on how long before this tape hits the internet? maybe then the families of the people who choke to death from simultaneously laughing and vomiting while watching the tape can sue britney and kevin back to the trailer park.
HollyJ | December 21, 2005 at 1:52 am
I would SO pay to see that tape. I just KNOW they call each other parental nicknames in the throes of Louisiana monkey sex.
“Oh Big Daddy…just like that…Oh yeah…”
“I know how you like it, Mama…” ::straightens cap:::
HOMELESS(TM) | December 21, 2005 at 2:22 am
its ok.
im sure the release of the video will make more than 20 million anyway.
Bill Clinton | December 21, 2005 at 7:18 am
“Britney Spears has filed a $20 million libel lawsuit against us weekly” Jesus F-ing Christ! I thought people were after me during my presidency but you, The Superficial, are screwed. Call me…got reinstated by the bar last summer.
chattychiqa | December 21, 2005 at 12:41 pm
she’s gotta come up with Federjerk’s 125 million somehow, Yo.
TX_GAL | December 21, 2005 at 2:01 pm
I don’t know who is the bigger idiot Britney or Kevin?? That poor child is going to need a whole lot of therapy!!
nikki | December 21, 2005 at 3:08 pm
here’s my theory of what happened. Kevin floats a story about a missing sex tape with the missus. US Weekly bites and prints it. Britney then “finds” the videotape under her bed where Kevin had hidden it. Kev sees an opportunity to get 20 mil which Brit agrees that he can keep for himself so that he will stop touching her money. so she sues US Weekly. the real agenda is to get Kevin to stop spending her money.
drowningfool | December 21, 2005 at 3:11 pm
I don’t know why they are so desperate for money. They both know that K-Fed’s rap album is coming out soon, that alone will bring in enough money to double their living expenses. Just wait, people, K-Fed is the new Eminem. Mark my words…
drowningfool | December 21, 2005 at 3:15 pm
…oh yeah…and about the baby (I almost forgot about it, as I’m sure Britney has), if Darwin was correct in his theory of natural selection an eagle will drop down from the sky, pick it up and eat it, in a futile and desperate attempt by nature to eliminate these dangerous and deadly genes from the gene pool.
bluecanary | December 21, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Hey, that special Federline logo on his Ferrari’s brakes can’t have been cheap. Girl needs to do something to keep her man in weed and tacky cars.
unknownassassin | December 22, 2005 at 2:58 am
“what is the sound of two hillbillies fucking?”
–zen koan