Just a week after launching, Hailey Bieber has received a lawsuit over using a name already registered for her beauty line, according to the celebrity’s exclusive website TMZ. In the lawsuit in a Manhattan, New York court, apparel company Rhode NYC, founded in 2014, is seeking a ban on marketing or selling any products to the company of the model, daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin. and wife of singer Justin Bieber, who is also not doing well due to a health issue that has caused him to cancel his tour.
In addition, the makers of the brand of the same name are demanding compensation, the amount of which has not yet been determined. “We didn’t want to showcase it, but we had to to protect our business,” Purna Khatau and Phoebe Vickers, founders of the clothing brand, said in a joint statement on their company’s Instagram account.
Clothing company Rhode NYC said in the same statement that Hailey and her company could easily end all the hard work they’ve put in so far. The lawsuit states that the court’s intervention is necessary because Hailey Bieber is a celebrity with more than 45 million followers on Instagram and through her husband’s social networks, who have 243 million Instagram followers, with a single publication 1, generated 5 million likes.
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Also, Khatau and Vickers say in their statement that the model tried to acquire the designer duo’s brand back in 2018 and when they refused, they went ahead with the launch without a name change. “Hailey could choose any brand for her skincare line. We only have the Rhode brand that we have built. That’s why we didn’t sell it to him when he asked us four years ago, and that’s why we’re now asking him to rebrand his skincare line.”
In their letter, the two designers reiterate that they feel “admiration” for the model and for what she has achieved, and that they see the creation of this brand as something completely legal, and that they would not, in fact, sue them if they did “celebrate”, wish her as “entrepreneurial colleagues” “a lot of success”. However, they also state that they hope the lawsuit will be successful, although they believe they know Bieber never meant to harm them by the same name.
Personally, it’s not a good time for Hailey either, who has seen Justin Bieber, whom she married in 2018, see his US concert tour postponed due to facial paralysis. The singer posted a video on his Instagram account explaining to his 242 million followers that he has been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome and how it has affected the mobility of his face.