Rockstar being sued by the folks that own the likeness of Miss Cleo
I had no idea Miss Cleo died recently. Anyway, Rockstar games is being sued by a group of psychic.
From Screengeek.ne ((Psychic Readers Network, who hold the rights to ‘Miss Cleo’, just filed a lawsuit against Rockstar Games and others who helped make a distribute Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – for allegedly taking her image and Jamacian accent and slapping it on the character known as ‘Auntie Poulet’. ))
There is a huge problem with this lawsuit though. Miss Cleo is actually in the game playing the parody character of herself! Auntie Poulet is supposed to be modeled after Cleo. You can't sue the company if she was willing to bring her likeness and voice to a project. Plus, this falls under parody as well.
This suit will be thrown out rather quickly I think.
BTW, this character is from GTA Vice City that came out in 2002!
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