This is about what Makeup model and actress Uma Thurman wasn’t wearing, Lancome makeup it seems. Uma Thurman is suing Lancome for apparently still using her image after her contract was up. In fact, It may have been the retailers who did not know that the contract had expired between Lancome and Ms Thurman and failed to remove the ads from their sales counters.
UMA THURMAN is suing cosmetics giant Lancome for $15 million – for continuing to use her image in connection with the brand once her contract had ended.
According to papers filed in Manhattan federal court, Lancome gave the “false impression” that Thurman was still affiliated with the brand after her four-year contract came to a close in 2004 and failed to ask wholesalers and retailers to stop displaying the ads in which she featured.
“Celebrities will now be careful about doing deals with Lancome,” says the star’s lawyer, Bert Fields. “They continued to use her photographs long after the contract was over.”
Lancome, however, claims it did not violate the contract.
“The use of Ms Thurman’s image after her contract expired, however minor, was neither deliberate nor intentional,” Jennifer James, spokeswoman for Lancome’s parent company, L’Oreal, said in a statement. (May 12 2008, AM)
