celebrities

Another Reason Not To Hang Out With Celebrities

January 25, 2010 03:52

One of the strangest things to me is how much we worship celebrities in our culture. Turn on any channel or read any newspaper and you'll eventually see a story about a celebrity. This is perplexing and amusing at the same; especially for people like me, who were born and raised in Los Angeles....

Geragos v. Borer: $9 Million in Punitive Damages Reduced to $600,000

January 13, 2010 02:35

We haven't blogged about a celebrity punitive damages case in a while. But here's an unpublished opinion from the California Court of Appeal (Second District, Division Three) involving one of the biggest celebrities ever: Michael Jackson.In 2003, Jackson hired prominent attorney Mark Geragos to...

The Roar of Tiger Woods in Branding

January 12, 2010 10:00

The impact of the Tiger Woods scandal in branding can be viewed from two different perspectives. The first perspective comes from the point of view of the companies that paid Woods to endorse their products. The second perspective is how the personal brand of Tiger Woods will be impacted as the...

Celebrity Defamation: Part II

Adrianos Facchetti
December 15, 2009 13:01

I was at a Kiwanis club meeting the other day and the topic of Tiger Woods came up. Someone mentioned that Tiger was in deep trouble (an obvious observation) and began to rattle off the names of each of Tiger's mistresses and then there was some generally commentary about Tiger's...

Don't Expect This to Have Tiger by the Tail...

Stephen Baird
December 15, 2009 10:00

  Tiger Woods’ scandal proves once again that celebrity gossip mongering is a blood sport. The bigger the celebrity, the more the blood will flow. In Tiger’s case, he can open up a blood bank. Though it’s unlikely to reach the insanity that was unleashed when Michael Jackson...