Cookbook Author sues Jerry Seinfeld’s Wife for Plagiarism
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Cookbook author Jessica Seinfeld, and her husband, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, are being sued by the author of another kitchen how-to, for copyright infringement and defamation. The defamation accustation actually is focused on Jerry who called Missy Chase Lapine a “wacko” during an interview in a late night talk show, after similarities emerged between his wife and the author’s cook books.
Both books focus on how to get picky kids to eat healthy meals - but Jessica Seinfeld’s book ended up becoming a best-seller lauded by influential TV personality such as Oprah Winfrey. Lapine, six months previously authored The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals. Lapine filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in New York on Monday alleging Seinfeld plagiarized Lapine’s book in writing her cookbook Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting your Kids Eating Good Food.
Lapine also accused Jerry Seinfeld of launching a “malicious, premeditated, and knowingly false and defamatory attack” on her character during an interview with David Letterman.
Promoting her Deceptively Delicious book on The View in November, Jessica Seinfeld defended her collection of kid-friendly recipes.
“I can understand why she would have been frustrated,” she said. “It must have been hard to see how quickly my book took off. I never saw her book, I never saw her recipes, nor, as a person, would I ever do something like I was accused of doing.”
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Jessica Seinfeld SO obviously copied and only minimally changed Missy Lapine’s cookbook and called it her own. Wow, READ THE LAWSUIT on “TheSmokingGun.com” website before you take my word. It’s so amazing to see all of the stuff that Jessica Seinfeld copied and changed very little from the real book by Missy Lapine.
I mean, my god, what is wrong with her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh (who also represented the PLAGIARIST Kaavya Viswanathan from Harvard)? Does she think that the public is stupid? It’s sooooo simple to put the books together as the lawsuit papers show on thesmokinggun.com to see what happened. This makes Oprah look like an IDIOT!
IT IS SHOCKING!!! Jessica Seinfeld is SO BUSTED! Jerry is going to have to pay out the whazoo for this one! Good for Missy!
Jennifer Rudolph Walsh has a history of stealing books (yes, already PUBLISHED material) and now she has stolen Missy Lapine’s book and GIVEN it to the dummmy Jessica Seinfeld. Ms. Walsh is just motivated by greed without ethics. Only now, Missy Lapine has some bad-ass attorneys who are demanding a jury trial. Ms. Walsh is what is wrong in publishing. Poor Jessica! See what Jerry got you into!!!
I believe that Jessica is a PLAGIARIST. But I feel Jerry is and has made it worse with his childish remarks he’s made against Missy Lapine. For Lords sake GROW UP. If he thinks he was being funny on Letterman - He missed the mark, It was uncomfortable to watch. Can’t defend the book, he claims his wife wrote, so he attacks Ms Lapine. Sounds like a child to me.