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https://www.voat.co/v/AskAnon/3136617 Why did it take so long to speak out against JabbaTheHutt weinstein? less than a dozen called him out back in the day, so where were the Feminists? Basically all of Hollyweird town in on it?

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https://voat.co/v/QRV/3130944 Masonic Bible Proves Their god is Lucifer and the Ancient Demon gods of Old

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He doesn't even make his own art and refuses to pay child support? Jeff Koons, soon heading to town, has been sued by his former porn star ex-wife. IIona says the man responsible for the stainless-steel rabbit owes at least $2.4 million in child support.

"Staller, known as ``Cicciolina'' and also a former member of Italy's parliament, sued Koons in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan yesterday, asking the court to enforce a judgment entered by Italian courts rejecting his right to custody of the couple's son, Ludwig, 15. The couple, who married in 1991, divorced in New York in 1994, according to the complaint. Staller lives in Italy with her son, she said. Jeff Koons has been sued – yet again – for copyright infringement. The famed artist was named in a lawsuit filed by New York-based photographer Mitchel Gray, who alleges that Koons copied one of his original photographs without his permission. According to Gray’s suit, which was filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York court, Koons used his original 1986 photograph “nearly unchanged and in its entirety" to create his I Could Go For Something Gordon's piece, which was included in his 1986 "Luxury & Degradation” series. Gray further alleges that Koons “knew, or should have known, that he was required to obtain an artist's permission before he could lawfully copy a work by that artist." The photographer has also named Phillips auction house, which is responsible for selling the Koons work at issue in 2008 for $2.04 million, as a defendant in the suit. Jeff Koons has been sued – yet again – for copyright infringement. The famed artist was named in a lawsuit filed by New York-based photographer Mitchel Gray, who alleges that Koons copied one of his original photographs without his permission. According to Gray’s suit, which was filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York court, Koons used his original 1986 photograph “nearly unchanged and in its entirety" to create his I Could Go For Something Gordon's piece, which was included in his 1986 "Luxury & Degradation” series. Gray further alleges that Koons “knew, or should have known, that he was required to obtain an artist's permission before he could lawfully copy a work by that artist." The photographer has also named Phillips auction house, which is responsible for selling the Koons work at issue in 2008 for $2.04 million, as a defendant in the suit.

As for why it took Gray roughly 30 years to file suit: It turns out, he only recently discovered Koons' infringing work, according to the complaint. Per Gray's attorney (and in accordance with federal copyright law), however, the multi-decade delay is not problematic, as the case falls within the three-year statute of limitations on copyright infringement actions, which only starts to run when "the plaintiff learns of the infringement." Gray is seeking unspecified monetary damages, plus any profits made by the defendants in connection with alleged copyright infringement - which will certainly amount to upwards of $2 million.

And as you may know, this is not Koons' first dalliance with intellectual property law. In December 2014, he was sued twice within two weeks, first over his work Fait d'Hiver (1988), which French advertising executive Franck Davidovici claimed Koons copied from a 1985 advertisement for a French clothing brand, and then by the wife of photographer Jean-François Bauret over the illegal use of her husbands's work in Koons' sculpture Naked (1988). In 1985, French clothing brand NAF NAF released a print advertisement for its autumn-winter campaign showing a woman with a short, shaggy bob lying back in the snow while a pig with a St. Bernard-issue neck barrel sniffs at her. Three years later, artist Jeff Koons created four identical porcelain sculptures of a woman in the same position, also accompanied by a pig with a barrel around its neck.

Called “Fait d’Hiver, 1988,” one of Koons’ four works sold for $3.7 million back in 2007. It is this work that sits in Paris’ famed Georges Pompidou Centre, and it’s the same one that a French bailiff photographed last week after adman Franck Davidovici initiated legal action against the artist for blatantly stealing his work. (For a little extra oomph, the words “fait d’hiver” also appear on the ad.)