Woody Allen is suing American Apparel for a billboard that steals an image of him for their own nefarious purposes.
As other sources have pointed out, AA usually gets served for its founder's constant sexual harassment of staff members and models and for his hilariously bad taste. This time, it's for an ad above a Los Angeles K & K's Donuts, seen below.
Dov Charney, the company's founder, is caught up in a number of lawsuits, including one in which three female employees are named as plaintiffs.
The suits follow a bizarre article last year in the women's magazine Jane. Charney was described as engaging in oral sex with a female employee and masturbating in front of the reporter. Charney doesn't deny taking part in any of the activities described in the article. He says he befriended the writer over the course of the two months it took her to research the piece. "I've never done anything sexual that wasn't consensual," Charney says. The reporter, Claudine Ko, confirmed his take on events to BusinessWeek.
Clearly the dude knows nothing about interviews and PR: never steal a celebrity's image and call him "The Ultimate Rabbi" (or whatever you think the translation is for the text on the billboard), as it may ruin his career if he's connected to the Jewish Hollywood Elite, and never, ever get blown in front of a newspaper reporter.
Getting blown in front of a paparazzi? Well, now... that's just good business.
Photo via Curbed. Stolen photo of Woody Allen via "Annie Hall."