Lindsay Lohan during a news conference at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 20, 2014. (Credit: AP / Chris Pizzello)
Actress Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Wednesday charging that the makers of the video game "Grand Theft Auto V" have used her likeness for a character without her permission.
Lohan, who turns 28 today, alleges that the character Lacey Jonas is meant to be her in all but name, saying that the game -- the latest in the violent crime-drama series from Rockstar Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software -- uses a voice, image and clothing style similar to her own, and the character is, like her, besieged by paparazzi. Lohan additionally states that one game locale, West Hollywood's famed Chateau Marmont hotel, had been her home for a time.
The actress, originally from Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor, has been in London preparing to make her stage debut in September in a West End revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow."
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In February 2013, a judge dismissed a lawsuit Lohan had filed against rapper Pitbull for using her name in his song "Give Me Everything." Lohan had claimed it was "an unwarranted, unauthorized, and unfavorable mention of name and personality, and allusions to physical and mental character." The judge said her claimed publicity and privacy rights under New York Civil Rights law do not "apply to works of art, and that the First Amendment affords full protection," and that her name was not being used as "advertising" or for "purposes of trade."
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