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Jill Ishkanian Lashes Back at Us Weekly
Wenner slapped with $55m suit

Jann Wenner, Janice Min, Ken Baker, and Wenner Media proper are being hit with a $55 million lawsuit today filed by former Us Weekly staffer Jill Ishkanian, we’ve learned.

In court papers being filed now-ish, Ishkanian – who left the magazine and went on to form the paparazzi agency Sunset Photo and News – alleges her former bosses went on the attack after her departure, trying to sully her reputation. Though it should have been expected: The suit alleges Janice and Ken threatened to ruin her if she ever tried to leave the magazine or encourage anyone else to do so.

Among the charges Ishkanian is claiming: “INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS; NEGLIGENT TRAINING AND RETENTION; BREACH OF CONTRACT; BREACH OF THE COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING; SLANDER AND SLANDER PER SE; LIBEL AND LIBEL PER SE; INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE; CIVIL CONSPIRACY.”

As you’ll recall, after Ishkanian’s departure, Us Weekly went to the FBI alleging Jill was hacking into Us computers to gain information about celebs and their whereabouts. But as we’ve learned before, Us also intentionally left Ishkanian’s phone lines at the magazine active to collect information from sources who didn’t know she had left. They also kept Jill in the loop via email, even after repeated requests not to be included on sensitive in-house Wenner emails.

The suit is filled with fun anecdotes, like the time in May 2004 when then West Coast bureau chief Ken Baker (who’s now heading the magazine’s online efforts) threatened, upon Ishkanian telling him she was thinking of leaving, “If you leave I will destroy you! Did you hear me? I will destroy you!”

Baker summarily changed his title to “West Coast executive editor” and moved his name up the masthead.

We’ll have more of those one-liners shortly. Or, as the kids are saying, “Developing.”

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Doug is cute, but not as cute as Brad.
Is Julie Pitt pretty?

1729—WTF—if I wanted to be at the Perez blog I would… I have fingers last time I checked and I could type to go over there….. but I don’t b/c I don’t want to. Sooooo what is your point?????

AMH earns Frankfurt adaptation price.

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Earlier today, after we heard rumors that on of our most cherished weekly titles, Life & Style, might be headed for semi-extinction within the pages of its brother title In Touch, we began asking around. And the rumors = credible-ish! Apparently, mild chaos reigns in the building and editor-in-chief Mark Pasetsky is out for the day. (Also apparently, mild chaos often reigns at Life & Style.) Well, you heard it here first: if Life & Style dies it will in no small part be a casualty of its dogged coverage of the latest exclusive on the epic Heidi Montag-Spencer Pratt-Lauren Conrad debacle, which Life & Style has followed with a relentlessness not seen since the Washington Post’s storied pursuit of that third-rate burglary. In those days, of course, a newspaper could watch its stock take a 50% hit and feel content knowing its principles were in the right place. How times change. After the jump, a look back at some of Life & Style’s recent journalistic highlights.

There was the time Spencer Pratt gave the exclusive interview dissing L.C. and slyly mentioning her sex tape. Or the time the magazine hypothesized as to Angelina’s bony physique and landed at the conclusion that she wasn’t eating because she was taking pills. Or the time they had an exclusive about Heidi & Spencer and hypothesized as to Angelina’s bony physique in the same same issue, only that time the culprit was depression. Then there was the time Spencer Pratt gave them the exclusive interview about how he really loved Heidi. Or the time they didn’t have an interview with a big star so they resourcefully made do by cobbling together clips from other interviews with said big star and also the occasional song lyric. Or the time we commemorated the magazine’s 45th straight exclusive feature on Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag with a tribute like this, only slightly less positive, because we, too, counted ourselves among the naysayers, oblivious to the far-reaching implications of the iron Heidi-Spencer-L.C. triangle. Which were: oh god, yeah it’s depressing.

UPDATE: We just read that L&S is performing extraordinarily well on newsstands, which makes today’s rumor seem a little less credible, as does an insider’s suggestion that maybe the merger will simply apply to the two Bauer title’s websites. We hope the rumor gods aren’t blue-balling us like that time Teen Vogue was supposed to die and then didn’t because God hates us. Developing…

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Gawker must flicker at Jossip’s report.

from Cologne, Germany : 09/17/2007 at 9:16 pm
AMH earns Frankfurt adaptation price.

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What award is this?

And guess what today Angie still has the same nose she had at 16 yrs.
This is that same nose last week

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ted c and vajenjens huvane are buddies.

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