Rihanna ant for NO play play. If what Page Six reports
about her suing Topshop over using her image without consent:
Rihanna is suing British
retail giant Topshop — chaired by billionaire Sir Philip Green — for $5 million
for selling T-shirts bearing her image without her consent. A source exclusively says the superstar’s team had tried to negotiate with Topshop owners Arcadia
Group for eight months over the rights to her image, “but they offered her
$5,000 and said they don’t care.”
The source said,
“Rihanna’s management asked Topshop a number of times to stop selling her image
and were told, ‘We do what we want.’ They buy the pictures from a photographer,
but they do not pay the artist licensing fees. Unfortunately, UK law does not
protect the artist. Rihanna, 25, has hired international law firm Reed Smith to file the suit in London.
