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Heidi Klum Accused Of Design Theft

Namely, famous luxury jewellery designer home Van Cleef and Arples is suing the model for alleged theft of their clover-shaped design in one of her jewellery lines.

The model is accused of copying symbols which Can Cleef and Arples are recognisable after. They claim it creates a confusing situation among market purchasers and believe they have a right for compensation.

Heidi Klum is currently producing and running a famous TV show in Germany – Germany`s Next Topmodel, webindia writes.

Project Runway: Heidi Klum Faces Lawsuit

Since last year, Project Runway host and judge Heidi Klum has been designing jewelry for Mouward USA. For some individuals, when first seeing her clover-shaped designs for the company, there was confusion.

The designs seemed reminiscent of the iconic style used by Van Cleef & Arpels stylized clover shape. Some less familiar with jewelry ins and outs thought she was designing for the company famous for that shape (and wondered what she was designing, exactly, since the shape was already set).

Other, savvier fashionista weren’t so much confused as curious: was the Project Runway judge, despite her fashion industry status, somehow unaware of the similarities?

Now, that question is the heart of a lawsuit launched by Van Cleef & Arpels against Klum and Mouward.

The complaint alleges that the “[d]efendants have appropriated this design and incorporated it into their jewelry line, attempting to appropriate the goodwill built up by Van Cleef & Arpels to create their own ’symbol,’…Such use…has created great confusion in the marketplace.” One of the examples the suit gives to support its claims is a New York Times article on the clover design and that remarks that Heidi “appropriated” the shape.

Oddly, Van Cleef & Arpels is only looking for around $25,000 in damages, while their own necklaces can cost more than twice that.

The owner of Mouwad, “diamond tycoon” Pascal Mouwad, talked to People magazine prior to the lawsuit about the similarities and dismissed the claims of appropriation.

“It’s clear that shapes like clovers, hearts, crosses, etc, are universal symbols and are commonly used in jewelry,” he said. “Heidi has been wearing her pieces on Project Runway and we’ve seen them become quite popular.

“The clover has always been in fashion, and you can see that many other luxury jewelry houses have their own interpretations of this wonderful shape such as Louis Vuitton and Chopard.”

It remains to be seen if the law will agree with Mouwad’s or Van Cleef & Arpels’ perspective on the issue of Heidi’s designs.

Is Katie Holmes the next Audrey Hepburn? Diane Keaton thinks so

Katie Holmes has been compared to Audrey Hepburn by her Mad Money co-star Diane Keaton.

Diane told Parade magazine recently that the former Dawson’s Creek star is blossoming as she becomes more confident in her self, her style and in her role as a mother: “It’s just so beautiful to watch a girl become a young woman. I tell you, I think it’s a miracle.”

“I remember how I was at that age and how my obsession was to be Audrey Hepburn, my idol. Now Katie has the candle.”

“She’s more adventurous than I am. Being the wife of Tom Cruise, she’s been thrown into a world you can’t really be prepared for, yet Katie handles it with grace.”

“Like Audrey Hepburn, she’s like celebrity royalty. She has a calm center in the storm of whatever is going on around her.”

Feel the force of a star in search of a needy child

Natalie Portman explains why she is heading a new campaign that lets Third World children tell the West of their plight

The world may be exhausted by celebrity charity drives, but the sobering, irritating fact behind their continued existence is, they work. At least, they do in their first objective - to attract attention. Chances are, for instance, that if Natalie Portman had not visited Uganda with a camera crew, the story of Nicholas - an HIV-positive 17-year-old Aids orphan bringing up his sister and three brothers alone - would never have been heard.

Why should it have done? In Uganda, where 1m people live with Aids, and 1m children have lost their parents to the disease, Nicholas’s story is not only individually heartbreaking but heartbreakingly quotidian. Moreover, Nicholas is out of reach - he receives no help from local charity projects, which lack the cash and infrastructure to improve his life.

Portman visited Nicholas in her role as an ambassador for the Listen campaign, a new multimedia charity initiative designed to highlight the plight of poor children all around the world. Listen believes that using film stars to record the stories of children living in deprivation, and turning those experiences into documentaries, will prove powerful enough to persuade people to donate money to charity projects around the world. The scheme hopes to raise $1 billion over 10 years.

“I understand that people might be jaded,” Portman says. “I know I get turned off by most celebrity joining-in efforts. But I’m interested in this because it’s about diverting some of the unwarranted attention we have in our celebrity-crazed culture and passing it on to something else. We can give people a voice who would not normally have one.”

The impresario behind the Listen campaign is Tony Hollingsworth, whose previous credits include organising the Nelson Mandela freedom concert at Wembley. His plan for the campaign (see www.listencampaign.com) is complex - stringent accountability to donors, including exact details of the projects to be assisted, and a carefully staged assault on the media before two television events next summer.

Portman was chosen for the campaign - along with Samuel L Jackson and Goldie Hawn, among others - not only because she is young and pretty and recognisable but because she is not coming to these issues as a novice. Portman majored in psychology at Harvard while continuing her work as an actress and has already done some advocacy work for FINCA, the microfinance organisation, or “the World Bank for the Poor”.

Indeed, the actress was able to witness at first hand how a FINCA loan had transformed the lives of one family in Uganda. Sandra and Marvin are a brother and sister whose father left them when their mother tested HIV-positive. The children were rescued by a woman named Jacqueline Namutebi - a stranger - at a village funeral, who took them back to Kampala.

Namutebi, whose husband had died from Aids, and who was already caring for seven grandchildren, three of whom were HIV-positive, took in Sandra and Marvin and enrolled them in the local school. Through loans from FINCA, she was able to keep her small business - a shop and bar - running, and keep this gaggle of survivors together.

“That’s a very positive story,” says Hollingsworth, who accompanied Portman on her trip, “and one which shows that there are good projects doing good things. But the point about Listen is not to help the children who have already been helped, but to get to those who haven’t.”

The stories of those who haven’t, children such as Nicholas, proved almost too much to bear for Portman. “The thing that upset me most”, she says, “is that we weren’t taught about this stuff at school. We weren’t taught that half the world lives on less than $3 a day.”

Really? Portman not only attended an Ivy League university but has a family with a history of social and political activism. Her grandfather, for instance, was a socialist economics professor of the developing world who helped to set up one of Israel’s first kibbutzes. If Portman doesn’t know about “this stuff” then America has a problem.

“You know, part of the problem is, it’s very hard to imagine what life is like in a place like Uganda, just by seeing it on the TV,” says Portman. “You don’t really understand it until you see it.”

Hollingsworth’s desire, then, to make 500m people a year aware of the plight of poor children around the world is admirable. He doesn’t like to say his work is “educational” = he balks at appearing didactic - but he does recognise there is work to be done, particularly in America, where foreign stories have dropped down the news agenda.

“It is possible to watch a news programme in America - of 30 minutes or so - and think America is the only country that exists in the world,” he says. “If George W Bush travels somewhere they will cover that, but otherwise it’s all America. That’s a narrow, myopic view.”

Perhaps that explains Portman’s strange position. She is intelligent, no doubt. She is also politically engaged - she campaigned for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election - and can talk in advanced terms about microfinance. But she was deeply affected by the grinding reality of what she saw in Africa. Indeed she revealed that, for all her academic savvy, she had a sheltered upbringing - one in which she was not allowed to walk down the street on her own until she was 18. Now, she says, she would consider ditching acting for work in the charity sector.

“I would definitely consider it,” she says. “It’s very meaningful to me. I’ve seen the power of the NGOs [nongovernmental organisations] to effect change.”

The unfortunate truth is that, for now, Portman has most impact as the “actor/famous person” she has been since she first made doe eyes, aged 13, at Jean Reno in Luc Besson’s Léon. When the documentary Why Listen? airs in June, viewers will not be tuning in to see impoverished teenage Ugandans. She and Hollingsworth both hope, however, that those are the people they will remember.

Photo of Sting as a toe sucker.

Sting, 56, and Trudie Styler, 53, have shared their tantric sex secrets and a physical demonstration of their love. Sting was caught on camera massaging and then licking and sucking Trudie’s feet. They were on a yacht that was in Sydney Harbor. The couple had rented it for £5,500 a day

The observers said that they were surprised that Sting was doing a sexy act in the public view. Trudie was reading her book all the while and seemed unperturbed by Sting doing his thing.

Recently, the couple made headlines when they did a photographic “Open House” inside their home. Their bedroom had erotic wall art and caused some ripples among the readers who saw the pictures.

Nicollette Sheridan is a toe sucker.

Nicollette Sheridan (Desperate Housewives) loved her fiance, Michael Bolton so much that she performed an act of public display of her love. She sucked on Michael’s toes while they were at the beach, on holiday at an island in the Caribbean.

The reporter who interviewed Nicollette said that she was soft and nurturing and quite the opposite of her on-screen characters. Nicollette said that she was born in the U.K. and had re-located into the U.S. when she was 9 years old. Her mother wanted to be near her boyfriend, Kojak actor, Telly Savalas. When she was 14, the couple split up and Nicollette and her Mum shifted back into the U.K. Nicollette emigrated back into the U.S. because she wanted to start her acting career in Hollywood.

News – Benazir Bhutto’s heir is Bilawal Bhutto!

Celebrities in Politics.

Bilawal Bhutto, 19, son of Benazir Bhutto, was appointed as his assassinated mother’s heir. Ms. Bhutto has stated her heir in her will. Bilawal would share control with his father, for the first 2 years while he finishes his law studies in Oxford, England.

Bilawal had no experience in politics but pledged that he would continue his legacy of the PPP’s struggle for democracy. An opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif said that he would reverse his decision to boycott an early poll. He was concerned that the PPP, Bilawal and Asif would be contesting him and his party. PPP would conduct a meeting to decide on whether to stand for and contest the next election.

The British Royal Family’s weekend.

Prince Charles had called a photographer “an annoying little prat.” He was angry at being followed as he rode around Sandringham estate in Norfolk. His photographs on that day showed his angry face. The website had removed Charles’ unflattering pictures and replaced them with some other photo.

Prince Charles and his Duchess, Camilla, had decided to stay in Norfolk to spend time with Prince William and other Royalty. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princess Anne and Prince Edward had all attended a shooting party on their Royal Sandringham estate. The Countess of Wessex and her newborn, James, enjoyed the large family gathering. The Royal family played together and prayed together later at their St. Mary Magdalene Church on Sunday.

Heather Mills has a new financial crisis.

Heather Mills wanted to go ahead with her plans to start her vegan chain of restaurants. She had no money to finance the project so she tried to convince two bankers to finance her project. Heather had earlier caused a controversy by condemning livestock. She said that the animals produced more carbon emissions than transport. Instead of keeping dairy animals, she suggested getting dairy milk from rats and dogs. Observers were waiting for her to be the first to demonstrate that.

Heather’s friend has helped to publicize her cause by revealing this news/gossip. Perhaps some financers might come forward to back the vegan restaurant chain project.

Sugababe Amelle Berrabah’s boyfriend speaks up.

Freddie Fuller, Amelle Berrabah’s boyfriend, has given his first interview to the press. He said that Amelle was his rock during his ordeal. He expressed his love for her. Freddie said that he was attacked from behind and the first slash almost severed his left arm. He could not move it at all. He tried to run away as his attacker continued to slash at him but he slipped on his pool of blood and fell down. He suffered multiple deep wounds.

The assailant only stopped when he was frightened by a woman’s screams. The doctors have stitched and repaired whatever they could. They have predicted a recovery period of about 2 years for Freddie.