Got It? Flaunt It – Then Sue!

From a story on the Myfoxhouston website:

Local Women Sue Rapper for Topless Video

• KRISTIN KANE
  Reporter

HOUSTON - Two Houston women are suing a rapper who put them in a music video without their permission.

The lawyer for both women says they are shocked and embarrassed their privacy was violated when they turned up topless in a Jim Jones music video.

They're suing the New York-based rapper and their lawyer says they're also upset about the way the media has portrayed them.

Sharie Johnson and Samantha Stotts were enjoying a vacation at the Setai Hotel last May in Miami Beach, Florida. Their lawyer in New York City, Taso Pardalis, says they were tanning topless: a common practice there.

They didn't know Jim Jones was recording them, Pardalis says. They didn't even know who Jim Jones was.

But now, it’s too late. Their faces and bodies are exposed all over the Internet.

The expecting mothers, due in April, did not want to appear on camera, but their lawyer did issue this statement for us.

“It is evident that a strategist in the Jim Jones organization devised what they thought would be a cheap way to get an enormous amount of publicity at virtually no cost. Jim Jones and his camp will answer for what they have done to these girls. How much will they be required to pay in damages? That is for a New York jury to decide, and we are confident that they will empathize with these girls."

Johnson, a college student, and Stotts, who works in real estate, are looking for monetary damages and they want copies of the video removed from YouTube. Many have already been flagged and taken down for being inappropriate, but obviously some copies still remain.

Apparently Jim Jones is under the "E1" record label, but in a letter to the women’s lawyer, E1 claims it did not participate in the making, posting or dissemination of the "Summer Time" video thereby denying any liability to Johnson and Stotts.

Well, I had never even heard of Jim Jones the Rapper.

When I think of Jim Jones, I think of British Guyana and Kool-Aid. 

If this story does nothing else, it gives the Rapper a ton of free publicity, and guarantees that a lot more people will see the two young women running around half naked.