Photographer David LaChapelle Sues Rihanna – NYTimes.com

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Photographer David LaChapelle Sues Rihanna

Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChappelle claims in a suit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the pop star Rihanna helped herself to too many of the images in the recently release

via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/photographer-david-lachappelle-sues-rihanna/

The suit, which asks for at least $1 million in damages, argues that the video is “directly derived from and substantially similar to” photographs he has created and published that show, among other things, a dominatrix walking a chained man on a leash, a woman in latex headgear and another woman (Lady Gaga, to be precise) wearing only screaming headlines.