Don’t put words in Larry King’s mouth, or he just might drop a lawsuit in your lap.
Former “Shark Tank” contestant Nathaniel “Nate” Holzapfel was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday by Larry King Enterprises and ORA Media, accusing Holzapfel of wrongfully using a “mock interview” that King agreed to do with Holzapfel as a favor.
The suit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Holzapfel “used false pretenses to obtain Larry King’s participation in a mock interview, then infringed Plaintiffs’ common law trademarks and rights of publicity to make it appear that Larry King endorsed Defendants’ commercial activities when, in fact, he has not done so.”
According to the complaint, King agreed to do the mock interview, conducted in 2013, “as a favor to a family member.” The suit goes on to say that King agreed to provide Holzapfel with a copy of the interview, “for the limited and sole purpose of using excerpts from it in a ‘sizzle reel’ that Holzapfel could privately submit to a few television producers and others, in the hopes that those producers would hire Holzapfel for a television program. Holzapfel agreed to use the recorded Mock Interview only for that limited purpose.”
However, the suit says, Holzapfel stepped beyond that agreement.
(Excerpt) Read More at: TheWrap.com