Strip club says Zeta-Jones should be flattered
A strip club has hit back at Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones - by declaring she should be flattered her image was used for advertising promotion on its website.
The Chicago star is suing The Spice House - which bills itself as "Reno's friendliest topless cabaret" - and its owner, Wesglow Resources, for displaying her picture on "numerous pages" of its website without her permission, according a lawsuit filed last week in US District Court in Los
Angeles.
A designer for the club's website downloaded pictures of Zeta-Jones from a German website which offered "royalty-free" graphics, says Kent Wallace, the club's marketing director.
He explains: "It was an image of a beautiful woman. We had no idea it was Catherine Zeta-Jone. One wouldn't think (her image) would appear in a free graphics website. She should have been flattered, as far as I'm concerned."
Wallace says the club immediately took down Zeta-Jones' images when it was contacted by her attorney.
The Intolerable Cruelty star seeks unspecified damages and an order barring further use of her likeness.
