Lawyers’ Fees Begin

Maroon 5 star Adam Levine, a longtime resident of our rarefied enclave, is facing a federal lawsuit over a post he shared in 2019 raising support for Hurricane Dorian victims.

According to court documents, the Billboard frontman, 46, allegedly used copyrighted video footage of storm damage in the Bahamas without permission from the owner.

The suit, brought by Global Weather Productions LLC, claims Levine used footage taken from the Abacos Islands, one of the locations hit by the hurricane, without a proper license.

The video footage was originally published on Sept. 3, 2019, highlighting the catastrophe created by Dorian in the Bahamas and Carolinas.

Levine also used the footage to urge followers to donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

But Global Weather Productions says it is a clear case of copyright infringement and is seeking damages of $150,000 under federal copyright law.

Stay tuned…

Date Night?

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry, newly split from British actor Orlando Bloom, was spotted having dinner à deux with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, also recently separated, at a Montreal restaurant.

The singer, 40, and Trudeau, 53, spent the evening at Le Violon and Trudeau attended her concert a couple of days later.

Watch this space…

Family Dispute

Prince Harry, who is claimed to have given his uncle, Prince Andrew, a “bloody nose” based on an argument a decade ago, has denied the anecdote – which appears  in a new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie.

The Duke of York allegedly called wife Meghan Markle “an opportunist” leading to the fisticuffs.

But a rep for the Riven Rock resident tells the New York Post: “I can confirm Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have never been in a physical fight, and never made the comment he is alleged to have made about the Duchess of Sussex to Prince Harry.”

Ex Reflections

Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert has revealed all about her six-year relationship with Rob Lowe, who was becoming a success with the films St. Elmo’s Fire and Class.

She described it as “very tumultuous.”

The twosome, both 61, went out from 1981 to 1987 and Melissa says it was “difficult to deal with.”

Speaking on a podcast, she added: “I was such a baby when Rob and I were together. I was 17, and the last time we broke up we were 23 and it was very tumultuous. I felt like a bit of an old sage in the business at that point because I’d been doing it for a long time on Little House on the Prairie when we met, and he was just starting out.

“He’d done a little bit of television, and I was able to sit back and watch his meteoric rise happen. But I wasn’t prepared for the fandom and, frankly, the girls. It was like I didn’t exist. They just pushed right past me and stuck their phone numbers in his pockets and stuff. It was hard and horrible.”

Remembering John Saladino

On a personal note, I remember international interior designer John Saladino, who died at his Birnam Wood home aged 86.

He was a man of exquisite taste, and I enjoyed many dinner parties at his Villa de Lemma cooked by his personal chef.

At one time his eponymous Manhattan design firm had more than 40 employees.

A graduate of the Yale School of Art and Architecture, he founded the prestigious New York firm in 1969.

An enormous talent…

Sightings

Actor Larry David at Bar Lou on CVR… Prince Harry and Meghan Markle watching son Archie learn to surf at Santa Claus Beach in Carpinteria… Former TV newswoman Maria Shriver at Pierre Lafond.

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