Popstar Lady Gaga has threatened to sue the owners of an ice-cream parlour in London over their latest offering, a sweet treat made from human breast milk, which they are calling Baby Gaga.
Attorneys representing the singer have sent a legal letter to Icecreamists’ owners, demanding that they change the name of the “provocative” product, reported Contactmusic.
Gaga’s lawyers have accused store owner Matt O’Connor of using the Pokerface hitmaker to promote a product which is “deliberately provocative and to many people, nausea-inducing.” The letter adds, “The references you are making to Lady Gaga are thus clearly deliberate and intended to take advantage of her reputation and good will... Associating the Lady Gaga mark with a food product which may be unsafe for human consumption (owing to the risk of it carrying such viruses as hepatitis) is also highly detrimental.”
However, O’Connor insists he has been unfairly targeted, calling the legal threat “preposterous and outrageous”.
“This is a David versus Goliath battle I’m convinced we will eventually win. The world’s biggest superstar has taken umbrage with the world’s smallest ice-cream parlour. She also seems to have forgotten that since the dawn of time the word gaga has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby’s mouth. This is why we chose the name,” said O’Connor.
And as for the claim that the product is distasteful, he said, “Perhaps she should reflect on her blood-spurting performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, or the fact she wears clothes fabricated from the flesh of dead animals.