From National Post stories - MONTREAL, May 17 -- A lawsuit pitting well-known Montrealer Dov Charney against Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Woody Allen is scheduled to kick off Monday in a Manhattan courtroom. Charney, the founder and chief executive officer of American Apparel Inc., is defending himself against a $10 million lawsuit Allen launched in March 2008 over use of a frame from his Academy-Award-winning 1977 movie Annie Hall on billboards in New York and Los Angeles and the clothing company's website two years ago. The suit alleges the frame of Allen shown dressed as a Hasidic rabbi falsely implied he sponsored, endorsed or was associated with American Apparel and accuses the company of "misappropriation and commercial use of Allen's image." "Charney's lawyer, Stuart Slotnick says he will be demanding records showing whether Allen's highly publicized custody battle involving ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn (Woody's current wife) had affected his earnings..." American Apparel says it didn't damage Allen's reputation with its advertising campaign, since the director has already ruined it himself. Lawyers for the retailer contend sex scandals involving Allen have meant that his name has already been dogeared."
Comment: It's rather ironic that AA should use as ammunition Allen's sexual relationship with his (adopted) daughter when they themselves keep inundating Canadian public space with full-page alluring pics of barely pubescent women in displays vividly suggesting sexual exploitation...