Curtis J. Jackson III, aka “50 Cent,” has prevailed in a major ruling in his lawsuit against a medical spa that used his image to advertise a penile enhancement business. Angela Kogan, the owner of Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, will now have to go to trial to defend the use of the images on social media in an interesting case on the “right to publicity” in torts.
Jackson’s complaint begins by declaring “This case is about the abuse of a popular entertainer and businessman’s act of goodwill by an unscrupulous business owner for her own economic gain.” …
In a video featuring her picture with Jackson, Kogan claims that “[m]en have really stepped up and are getting more surgery than we think.” While the picture uses a vegetable emoji to obscure the surgical image, the implication was that 50 Cent has had his own “eggplant” enhanced.
That led to the lawsuit alleging a variety of statutory and common law claims.
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