Hasselbeck Sued!
Plagiarism is a big no-no Elisabeth Hasselbeck, especially when you are a celebrity.
A woman in Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the View personality, claiming that Hasselbeck got the idea for her new book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, from a sample the woman sent to her.
Susan Hassett, a self-published author, allegedly sent a copy of her own book, Living With Celiac Disease, in April 2008, along with a homemade cooking video, a personal note, a newspaper article and a business card.
We doubt anything will come of this as money tends to get things like this swept under the rug. And it does help Hasselbeck's case having Barbara Walters in her corner.
Babs takes no mercy!
UPDATE: We have received an official statement on behalf of the Center Street publishing group and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Neither Center Street nor Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been served with the Complaint in this action. However, there is no basis for the allegations in the Complaint as published in the press. Ms. Hasselbeck worked diligently and tirelessly on her book and is disappointed in this attempt to discredit her work and her ability to bring this important message to the public.
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I bet she's really a self-loathing gay who uses anti-gay slurs against others in an attempt to dehumanize them.
No, wait… that would be YOU!
Loser. Cry-baby. Never-was has-been. Karma's a bitch.
PEREZ PUNCHED!!! LOL Funny as Hell!! He deserves what he got for using such offensive homophobic language!!
YOUR WORDS ARE MORE HATEFUL THAN THE FIST THAT HIT YOUR FACE.
key word, "IDEA"!
why do you people come on here to bash perez? that's really stupid. don't you have something better to do with your time. plus i bet you'd be crying too if you got punched in the face.
did you learn nothing from your beating,,elisabeth has celiac disease.has been writing this book for some time.wait till you get the facts before you run your trap !
Not surprised. "The -self -proclaimed -holier- than- thou -girl" ISN'T. Surprise?
Not at all.
Back to Puerto Rico, with you!!!!
Meh, of course she would "plagiarize". I mean how many different words and meanings can you put for celiac disease. It's like trying to find new way to define addition or multiplication. The unknown just wants attention.
haven't you learned your lesson?!
i hope hasselbeck punches you harder than will i am's manager.
Mario is a cry baby psycho homo!!! Her book will outsell your 3 copies!!!!!
10-1 ODDS HASSLEBECK KICKS MARIO'S ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
She couldn't think on here own on Survivor Aussie either. Always had to be leaning on someone else. If she was really smart, she wouldn't have so many kids, cause her Bush already took all their money, they'll have NO FUTURE, REAL SMART THERE, HUH?
people get sent shit all the time it doesn't mean she stole her idea. everyone has a friggin' gluten free diet book, dumbass. not like it's original.
yeah, right. think alot of unknowns send their 'works' that have failed to celebrities with the hope that these celebrities do publish so they can sue and make money off their crap.
Hey husband is used to be a pro football player, don't make him mad!!
and does sound like anyone we know????? picks up work of others (other internet sites) and takes the work (copies and pastes) and puts it out as his own???????????????????????????????????????????????? you plagerize yourself mario!!!!!!!!!! most of the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot stand Hasselbeck! She's right up there with Ann Colter! Both are morons beyond belief!
Re: PrincessJenn – i been stabbed and i didn't cry like this bitch
Rantee - Perez has a lot more money than you! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
And also a lot more than you will ever have…. did I forget to mention ha ha ha ha ?
Wow - what a fucking huge bitch!!
Re: Alisa-Chan – Yikes!! I love the red,white, and blue!!!!
I don't like neither of these idiots but I am surprised that she can write.
At GLAAD has never asked her for an apology!!!!
black eye black eye from black eye peas
gawd, i hate elizabeth hassleback…i just want to kick her face in
Re: BustyLaRue – Yes, maybe he can use those dollar bills to wipe his crying bloody eyeballs. Or buy some copies of his vanity book. Or buy some friends… or taste… or manners… or human decency. Wouldn't that be nice?
It is not illegal to have more than one book on the same subject. If Elisabeth QUOTED the other author then she is in her legal rights. I think you will find the other author is jealous because Elisabeth's book has sold more copies. We have this all the time on successful movies where some jerk sues when they see the movie has made money. Perez, keep bashing pregnant women and stay away from rock stars. You may get a free nose job. LOL
can someone just send her to the guillotine? p lease!!!
I'm amazed it's taken her this long. Being a Celiac, I read her book and it was ALL WRONG. I'm sorry, but you don't tell someone with Celiac's to go on a liquid fast for a week. That's just flat out stupid.
Oh, and for all of Perez's haters: go outside. You need the sun.
BITCH
I don't know if she plagarized, but when I was diagnosed, this book surprisingly helped.
I understand that this dumb bitch is pregnant again. Why in the world does she think the world needs another kid from her? She should rush on down to the local abortion clinic to get rid of that kid right away. And she should get her tubes tied shut while she's at it. And she should get her lips sealed shut, too!
Who would even buy Elisabeth's book??
She's just following in the footprints of her plagiarist mentor Billo O'Rielly.
Support HR 1966 Cyberbullying Prevention act. Watch out you loser she might pull a Black eye pea on you and BITCH SLAP you
How awsome would it be if EH took one in the eye from PH
Suck it cyberbullying is fun.
Watch Perezzzzzeeeee. Hasselbeck is a tough chick, she just may slap the other side of your cum-sucking face.
Good I hope that woman gets a huge chunk of Elizabitch's money
technically Hasselbeck isn't in the "wrong"
The woman has no grounds to sue.
For one, you would need a copyright on the material in order to say it was stolen.
And two, you CANNOT copyright an IDEA.
she practically lifted from hassett's book word for word….she's a thief and a liar.
Sad little worthless twat! Shes a terrible person.
ElizaBITCH did it, she would def. take credit for someone elese's work. You think that ElizaBITCH wouldn't do something so slimy, shes a fucking republican what do u expect of such scum lol…..If this is a true statement she should get sued. GOD BLESS AMERICA LAND OF THE UNLIMITED SUING.
she's a beeyoach to the max and now a plagiarist one.
Wow. I'm no lawyer, and I certainly won't be the judge in the case, but when reading the letter, I was amazed to see that BOTH books apparently share the same misspelling — both books used "isle" instead of "aisle" to mean "supermarket aisle"; but "isle" is short for "island." If that wasn't just an error in the letter, and if I were the judge, I'd be taking a hard, HARD look at that similarity — especially since since Hassett's book was self-published (some typos and minor errors are expected in a self-pubbed book), and Elizabeth Hasselbeck's was published by a major commercial publisher — meaning it would have been (should have been) carefully edited several times before publication, so should have contained few or no errors. But yet, that *particular *identical error appears in the big-name-published book. And then there's the "similar chapter titles" jolt to consider. Personal opinion? I think Elizabeth Hasselbeck's attorney is going to have to work a little harder than for most celebrity authors to prove "no plagiarism."
I can't stand this no talent, bitch, reality show loser…………I wish she would just go the fuck away!!!!