A Louisiana couple has accused
Jessica Simpson for allegedly posing with their baby and allowing it to pass
off as her own on the cover of the April 16, 2012 edition of OK! Magazine.
According to documents
obtained by The Times-Picayune, one of the parents, Christopher Hurst, was
standing in line with his teenage daughter so that she could get an autograph
from the 32-year-old singer, the New York Daily News reported.
Hurst alleges that on the
suggestion of two people in queue, he allowed the mum-of-one to take a snap
with his infant son, Christopher.
The lawsuit claims that when
Hurst handed the baby to Simpson, at least one previously unseen photographer
dashed towards the front of the line and began clicking images of the child
with the 'Fashion Star' mentor.
The suit also asserted that
the photographer did not reveal his identity or asked for Hurt's permission to
take or disseminate any photographs of their kid.
Hurst insists that he was
completely taken aback when a photo of Simpson posing with their son appeared
on the magazine, along with a story about Simpson's first few months of
motherhood.
The suit said that another
tabloid had apparently paid Simpson 800,000 dollars for the rights to the first
picture of her actual daughter, Maxwell.
Michael North, Hurst's
attorney, wrote that in this case the publication paid his client nothing,
despite clear intention to mislead some or all of the consuming public into
believing that the photograph on the cover of the subject issue was actually
Simpson's first child. (Source)
