Desperate Housewives costar Teri Hatcher is being told to pucker up and pay $2.4 million to a skin-care products company that says she promoted the wrong lip gloss.Actress Teri Hatcher has hit back at the bosses of a cosmetics firm suing her for breach of contract, insisting she complied with all their terms. Legal papers, filed by executives at Hydroderm skincare in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claim the Desperate Housewives actress promoted other beauty items, despite the fact she was paid $2.4 million to solely advertise Hydroderm products. And now angry Hatcher is responding to the suit insisting the allegations are “totally false and completely without merit.” She insists she’s the victim of the business deal because management changes at Hydroderm constantly left her unsure of the contract. In a statement, the actress’ lawyer says, “Clearly, Hydroderm has embarked on this unjustified and public assault on Teri Hatcher’s good name, reputation and celebrity in a transparent and pathetic effort to distract from its own failure to live up to its end of the agreement. Ms. Hatcher will respond swiftly and decisively by appropriate legal means to recover everything she is owed under her contract, as well as compensatory and punitive damages for Hydroderm’s outrageous accusations.” Maybe this whole thing is a publicity stunt by the cosmetic company to get free press, just in time for Christmas.
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Comment by Celebrity Gossip on 7 February 2008:
A lawsuit launched against actress Teri Hatcher by a cosmetics firm will be sent to arbitration after a Los Angeles judge ruled in her favor. Beauty manufacturers Hydroderm lodged a $2 million suit against the Desperate Housewives star, suing her for breach of contract after they claimed she had promoted other beauty products while she was signed to them. And now Hatcher’s lawyers have successfully persuaded a judge in L.A. to move the case to arbitration. The star, who was paid $2.4 million to advertise Hydroderm products, insists her promotion of CityLips’ lip plumper did not affect the deal and that management changes at the company constantly left her unsure of the terms of her contract. The matter will now be settled out of court.
Comment by Celebrity Gossip on 7 February 2008: