Lindsay Lohan is getting serious in her lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of "Grand Theft Auto V", replacing her original 10-page complaint that at one point misspells her name with a new 67-page complaint that opens by discussing the "common interest among all celebrities, actors, singers, and athletes to protect their likeness and personas from misappropriation by unscrupulous merchandisers."
Lohan says the game publisher used her image on coffee mugs, T-shirts and the sides of buses
The actress has long been litigious on the publicity rights front, suing E-Trade over a commercial that featured a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay as well as suing Pitbull for rapping, "So, I'm tip-toein', to keep flowin', I got it locked up, like Lindsay Lohan."
Her latest lawsuit came in July when she objected to a character named "Lacey Jonas," an actress who's involved in a side mission where the protagonist must help her escape the paparazzi.
Take-Two wanted the lawsuit dismissed and demanded sanctions on grounds "her claim is so legally meritless that it lacks any good-faith basis and can only have been filed for publicity purposes."
On Wednesday, Lohan's lawyers reacted to the game makers by stuffing 45 pages of pictured exhibits into an amended complaint, including a photograph of one of the game discs, which features a blond, red bikini-clad woman holding up the peace sign.
According to the amended complaint, the game publisher "used a look-a-like model to evoke the persona and image" of Lohan by imitating a photograph that was once taken of her in 2007.
