Los Angeles: Popstar Rihanna is beingsued by famed fashion photographer David LaChapelle over hercontroversial new video S&M, which he claims is a copy ofhis previous works.
LaChapelle, who has shot celebrities for magazinessuch as Rolling Stone, GQ and Vanity Fair, said "the musicvideo is directly derived from and substantially similar tothe LaChapelle works," reported Star magazine online.
Rihanna, 22, has sold over 25 million albums worldwideand dominated music charts in the US with singles such asUmbrella and What's my Name.
In the suit, LaChapelle said Rihanna had appropriatedeight of his images into the video, such as a shot where sheis shown in profile against a blue background with a piece ofcandy on her tongue.
One scene shows Rihanna 'walking' gossip blogger on aleash, while dressed in latex.
Other images allegedly copied in the Rihanna videoinclude a striped room with girls wearing red afro wigsdancing on the furniture. The Chapelle version, 'StripedFarce', is again remarkably similar.
LaChapelle, who has shot celebrities for magazinessuch as Rolling Stone, GQ and Vanity Fair, said "the musicvideo is directly derived from and substantially similar tothe LaChapelle works," reported Star magazine online.
Rihanna, 22, has sold over 25 million albums worldwideand dominated music charts in the US with singles such asUmbrella and What's my Name.
In the suit, LaChapelle said Rihanna had appropriatedeight of his images into the video, such as a shot where sheis shown in profile against a blue background with a piece ofcandy on her tongue.
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One scene shows Rihanna 'walking' gossip blogger on aleash, while dressed in latex.
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Other images allegedly copied in the Rihanna videoinclude a striped room with girls wearing red afro wigsdancing on the furniture. The Chapelle version, 'StripedFarce', is again remarkably similar.
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