CLINT EASTWOOD - EASTWOOD SUES FURNITURE COMPANY

EASTWOOD SUES FURNITURE COMPANY

Hollywood veteran CLINT EASTWOOD is suing a furniture company after it produced a line of chairs called The Eastwood. The actor/director, 77, accused Palliser Furniture of illegally trading on his name without his permission, according to papers filed at the federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Los Angeles. The court heard the company had designed a line of home-theatre seating and named them after other prominent actors, including Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Charles Bronson and Sir Sean Connery. The Dirty Harry star's complaint read: "Mr. Eastwood had a longstanding history of rejecting third-party licenses, reserving the exploitation of his personality rights and the goodwill associated therewith to his motion picture and other entertainment-related projects and to other business ventures in which Mr. Eastwood is personally involved." Eastwood is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction preventing further advertising, sale and distribution of the piece of furniture. Brando's estate also filed a suit against Palliser and an L.A. furniture store last year (07) to stop them from selling The Brando, but the company claimed the furniture line was named after a town on the French isle of Corsica and not after the screen legend.