One more post as part of our celebration of International Paris Hilton Day here at Agent Bedhead, but at least this one comes with a hearty helping of tasty, tasty Schadenfreude. You may find this hard to believe, but back in 2007 Paris Hilton’s celebrity endorsement of a product was considered to have some sort of market value. Thus, Hairtech International Inc. thought it was worth $3.5 million to pay Ms. Hilton to wear their hair extensions and generally promote the product. Now, the company is suing Paris for $35 million dollars, partly for wearing someone else’s hair extensions and partly for being such an utterly incompetent douche of a promoter:
In the filing, the company gripes that Hilton also missed a launch party in 2007 for the hair extensions line because she was behind bars…. The company also said Hilton’s partying lifestyle contradicts Hairtech’s marketing campaign.
This suit might have some merit, since no one in their right mind would want to wear any item that had been seen in close contact with Paris’ body. The whole notion would have you dusting for cooties and worrying about disturbing rashes breaking out in your intimate regions. But $35 million—ten times her original promotional fee—seems a little excessive. Hairtech International Inc. ought to eat some of this cost for being dumb enough to approach Paris with the idea in the first place.
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So Hairtech was unaware they were hiring a moron, who falls down drunk in public, flashes herself in public, smokes pot in public, is a racist who does nazi salutes in public and calls people the “N” word in public, and lastly drives drunk in public? Really, she’s an idiot on her best day, so what’s Hairtechs excuse?
For future reference, nobody wants to look like her or buy what that skank is selling, and investing money in her to be your spokes person is a waste and bad marketing, she’s a VD carrying, drunk and drug using whore. You got exactly what you paid for. A big zero with a beak instead of a nose.
What? they hired Mel Gibson??
What? they hired Mel Gibson??
In addition to being a scary-violent drunken racist oaf, Gibson actually has some talent and a body of work. That probably put him out of Hairtech’s price range.
Another problem might have been his steadfast refusal to wear the extensions.