A heated competition’s brewing over Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare,” but Viacom — which owns the popular game show — isn’t playing around … and filed a lawsuit to prove it. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ, a man named Charles Armstrong…
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Farrah Abraham Settles Lawsuit Against Viacom; Did She Win?!
In late 2017, Farrah Abraham was fired from MTV. It was a mess. And Farrah claims that she was slut-shamed over her sex work.
Farrah blasted her former employers for what she called “hate crimes.”
This week, that lawsuit has already been settled, somehow. What’s more, everyone’s coming away happy. How?
Following Farrah Abraham’s very complicated firing from MTV’s Teen Mom OG, she didn’t exactly take it lying down.
(Pun not intended)
She put MTV and its parent company on blast, saying that she had been sex-shamed for her sex work.
In February, Farrah sued Viacom (MTV’s parent company; Viacom probably owns like a third of the visual media that you consume).
She alleged that Viacom had engaged in discrimination based upon gender over her sex work.
She was asking for $ 5 million.
Lawsuits like this can so often drag on for months or even years, if they aren’t dismissed.
Which is why this week’s development is a little shocking.
Variety reports that Farrah’s attorney filed a notice on Tuesday that the case has been settled.
Not just settled, but settled amicably.
Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.
Considering that, just months ago, Farrah was putting Viacom on blast for committing “hate crimes” against her, this is a bit of a surprise.
(Note: generally speaking, a hate crime has to be committed against a minority group and it also has to be, you know, a crime)
Farrah, as you may recall, was confronted in her home by a Teen Mom producer, Morgan J Freeman, about her CamSoda livestreamed sex shows. He gave her an ultimatum — to stop doing these shows, or to be fired.
While people can debate the idea of a producer giving a reality star a hard time over her sex work all day, Farrah says that this producer’s confrontational tone was so aggressive that she feared for her safety.
Freeman did not actually have the authority to give that ultimatum.
He also brought up that Farrah is allegedly “difficult” to work with for some producers … which does not really require any stretch of the imagination to accept.
The way that Farrah and Teen Mom OG split seems irreconcilable, and not because of any of the producers.
Farrah immediately launched into angry rants on social media and in interviews.
Her sentences are rarely coherent — which some may believe lends credence to the accusation that Farrah is suffering from multiple mental illnesses — but her ire against Teen Mom OG was obvious.
Right now, her attorney says that the settlement reached was amicable.
We have to wonder if Farrah is as happy with whatever secret resolution they reached as we’re lead to believe.
Knowing Farrah, she won’t keep her feelings bottled up for long.
An amicable agreement — reached so quickly — could mean a number of things.
Perhaps Viacom decided to throw money at Farrah to make her go away. Maybe not the full $ 5 million that she was after, but some amount.
Alternatively, perhaps Viacom found another way to make Farrah happy.
They’re a huge media company, and Farrah definitely appeals to viewers — some genuinely like her, while others can’t stop watching out of fascination, like with those viral pimple-popping videos.
It’s also possible that the “amicable” resolution was just that Farrah’s attorneys convinced her that she was never going to win. We don’t know.
But it’s probably just a matter of time until we all find out.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Farrah Abraham says Her Lawsuit Against Viacom Will Change the World
Farrah Abraham’s under the impression she’s making some kind of humanitarian effort with her lawsuit against MTV’s parent company, Viacom … or so it seems. We got Farrah leaving Craig’s in WeHo Thursday night and talked to her about MTV kicking…
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Farrah Abraham Sues Viacom for Teen Mom OG Firing!
Before we get started, let’s take a moment to reflect on Farrah Abraham and the many, many hate crimes she’s endured these past few months.
Let’s consider how hard it’s been for her, and how the things she’s been going through have definitely, without a doubt been hate crimes.
… Are we good now?
Yes, so our beloved Farrah has been in a bit of a tailspin since October, when she was fired from Teen Mom OG.
It’s taken a while to get the full story, mostly because for the first couple of months after it happened Farrah had been the only one telling the story.
And as you may have noticed, she’s not the most reliable narrator. And also she has a hard time with words and figuring out how they work.
To hear her tell it, she was fired because of her work in the sex industry, and to be fired for such a reason was literally a hate crime.
She was sex-shamed by Teen Mom producers, she and her family had been manipulated for years into ruining their lives for good storylines.
She had a lot of accusations.
As it turns out, the powers that be didn’t love all the porn stuff, but another very big issue was the way Farrah treated crew members.
Because she honestly treated them like absolute garbage.
There was a little confusion over whether or not she was actually fired though — MTV owns the show, obviously but a separate production company films it, and they were the ones who did the firing.
But regardless, she hasn’t been filming, and it seems like she’s really and truly done with Teen Mom.
Well, she’s done being on Teen Mom — she still has some loose ends to tie up, though.
Yesterday, Farrah marched down to the courthouse and filed herself a lawsuit against Viacom, Teen Mom’s production company, and Teen Mom executive producer Morgan J. Freeman.
Why?
According to the documents, she’s suing “to hold defendants responsible for (1) harassing her because she did not conform to gender stereotypes; (2) wrongfully terminating her employment because she did not conform to gender stereotypes; and (3) terminating her employment in retaliation for complaining about the gender-stereotyping harassment she suffered.”
It’s already amazing, right?!
She also suing for “breach of contract, conversion, unjust enrichment, negligence, negligent hiring, retention, and/or supervision, tortious interference with business relations, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Now, we’re no lawyers, but you don’t really have to be a lawyer to see that she’s really just going for it with all of this.
The documents also state that on the day she was fired, the production crew “harassed, humiliated, discriminated against, disrespected, ridiculed, degraded, and sex shamed” her for working in adult entertainment.
She also claims here that Freeman threatened to sabotage any other deals she’d ever make with MTV, and that “given Freeman’s hostile tone, mannerisms, and body language,” she actually “feared for her life.”
See what we mean about how she’s going for it?
Farrah and her lawyers are suing for “emotional pain, emotional suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life,” and the rest of the money she was supposed to earn for this season according to her contract.
She’s suing for $ 5 million.
Five million actual dollars.
Actually, she’s asking for “an amount to be determined at trial but exceeding $ 5,000,000,” as well as her lawyer’s fees, so it’s even more ridiculous than that.
It’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out, to say the least.
There’s absolutely no doubt Viacom has an amazing team of lawyers, but there’s also no doubt that Farrah has zero sense and would keep pushing this until she bankrupts herself.
Grab your popcorn, friends, because this will almost definitely get good.
Farrah Abraham Sues Viacom for "Sex Shaming" Her
Farrah Abraham says a ‘Teen Mom’ honcho ridiculed her for her adult film work, and she’s not gonna take it laying down … she’s taking the whole company to court. Farrah says she met with Morgan J. Freeman (no relation), an executive producer on…
Monday, May 1, 2017
The Game Sues Viacom for $20 Million, Accuses Co. of Casting Criminal On His Show
The Game says Viacom should cover the $ 7.1 million owed to his sexual assault accuser, because it cast a violent criminal on his reality show, despite a doctor recommending she get the boot. The rapper’s going after the parent…
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