Whitney Port was sued in Los Angeles on Friday.
Whitney, who started out as a reluctant, “I’m-just-an-intern” co-star on The Hills before moving to New York, “working” for Diane von Furstenburg and getting her own show, The City, started her line Witney Eve in 2007 and surprise! She doesn’t actually design each and every piece.
Or at least that’s what Adrienne Baravetto, a former member of her design team, claims. Baravetto’s even more upset that her verbal agreement with Whitney hasn’t been honored, the one in which she was promised $80,000 annually and 25% of the company.
Of course Whitney’s rep says the claims are “baseless.”
On the one hand, no one suspects that Whitney’s the creative genius behind the line. On the other, one probably shouldn’t agree to design an entire collection under another, more famous person’s name, with nothing but a verbal agreement.
Whatever happens, a lawsuit’s enough to land The City one more season.
Tags: The City, The Hills, TMZ, Whitney Eve, Whitney Port
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*Sigh*She's going to spend all that money on lawyers, only to realize that, although verbal agreements are still protected under law, it's incredibly difficult to prove they happened when one person says…”I don't recall that.”Maybe it'll get scandalous when phone calls and taped recordings from The City reveal the truth! lolhttp://www.speakfemme.blogspot.com
*Sigh*She's going to spend all that money on lawyers, only to realize that, although verbal agreements are still protected under law, it's incredibly difficult to prove they happened when one person says…”I don't recall that.”Maybe it'll get scandalous when phone calls and taped recordings from The City reveal the truth! lolhttp://www.speakfemme.blogspot.com
Woah, I wonder how Whitney is going to handle this lawsuit
Can you sue a person based on verbal agreement? Is this really valid? I am sorry, just asking :)
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According to the law in many states and CA being one of them, you DO NOT need a written contract! All that is needed to form a binding agreement is an offer and intent, consideration ($$$) and acceptance. One does not specifically require a written contract. A VERBAL contract can be just as binding as long as there is proof (even e-mails back and forth can count for this designer). She needs to get her stuff together and round up all documents that back her up..Meetings, e-mails, phone convos, voice mails etc. I am actually a fashion designer myself who is in graduate school and is required to take law courses in conjunction with my business classes for my masters thesis :). More designers should look into learning the legalities behind the creative business in order to cover their behinds. She should check out the book, “The Legal Environment of Business”. While you are at it check out my fashion column in the Chicago Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-2741-Chicago-Fashion-...Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/23/whitney-port-adri...
Yeah, verbal agreements make for sh***y court cases. Thanks for playing though.
wait, did i see the words “creative genuis” there? have they seen that line?