WOODY ALLEN - ALLEN GRANTED VICTORY IN ONGOING AD CASE

ALLEN GRANTED VICTORY IN ONGOING AD CASE

WOODY ALLEN has won the latest round of his battle against clothing giant AMERICAN APPAREL - the judge has ruled he does not have to prove the company's advertisements are "sleazy".
The Annie Hall director filed suit against the firm last year (08), claiming ad bosses used his likeness on billboards without his consent, branding their campaigns "sexually gross, in a witless and infantile way".
The firm's bosses hit back by challenging Allen to back up his allegations by identifying the ads to which he referred.
But according to the New York Post, a judge at Manhattan's Federal Court in New York has overruled the demand, insisting Allen proved "he would not have voluntarily agreed to endorse" the company's products on the unauthorised posters when they were erected two years ago.
Judge Thomas Griesa said, "There is no reason to require him to identify specific advertisements that he finds distasteful."
Allen is suing American Apparel for more than $10 million (£6.9 million) in damages.