Jerry Seinfeld’s Wife Sued Over Cookbook
Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, is facing some heat over her cookbook Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting your Kids Eating Good Food. Another cookbook author is suing Jessica Seinfeld over copyright infringement and defamation.
Missy Chase Lapine, who wrote The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals, says Jessica Seinfeld plagiarized Lapine’s book. Jessica’s book was published just six months after Lapine’s.
According to the lawsuit:
“This action for copyright and trademark infringement and defamation arises from conduct that gives new meaning to the terms ‘arrogance’ and ‘greed.’”
The lawsuit includes examples of the allegedly plagiarized material as well as other similarities.
Even Jerry Seinfeld has been pulled into the lawsuit, after he made a comment on The Late Show with David Letterman – calling Missy Chase Lapine a “wacko” and asserting that she had been “waiting in the woodwork” to go after Jessica Seinfeld.
During Jessica Seinfeld’s book promotion on The View in November, she said of Lapine:
“I can understand why she would have been frustrated. It must have been hard to see how quickly my book took off. I never saw her book, I never saw her recipes, nor, as a person, would I ever do something like I was accused of doing.”
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On January 8th 2008, Ralph wrote:
Jessica Seinfeld SO obviously copied and only minimally changed Missy Lapine’s cookbook and called it her own. Wow, READ THE LAWSUIT on “TheSmokingGun.com” website before you take my word. It’s so amazing to see all of the stuff that Jessica Seinfeld copied and changed very little from the real book by Missy Lapine.
I mean, my god, what is wrong with her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh (who also represented the PLAGIARIST Kaavya Viswanathan from Harvard)? Does she think that the public is stupid? It’s sooooo simple to put the books together as the lawsuit papers show on thesmokinggun.com to see what happened. This makes Oprah look like an IDIOT!
Frankly, I don’t really care about the slanderous comments that Jerry Seinfeld made to try to publicly humiliate Missy Lapine. Ms. Lapine is soooooo far more of a class act than Jerry Seinfeld that it was pretty much a joke to me (like everything that Jerry says.) Besides, I’m fairly confident that the copyright infringement stands on it’s own merit. For crying out loud, it’s in INK!!!!
IT IS SHOCKING!!! Jessica Seinfeld is SO BUSTED! Jerry is going to have to pay out the whazoo for this one! Good for Missy!