David Ortiz is off to a pretty rough start so far this season, dealing with the type of numbers you’d expect in a typical baseball slump: only four hits in seven games, a .154 average, 13 strikeouts and one lawsuit filed against him by Jay-Z.
It’s A Hard Knock Life: Jay-Z Is Suing David Ortiz
↵You read that correctly. Jay-Z is suing David Ortiz -- Big Papi opened a nightclub in the Dominican Republic, his home country, called “Forty/Forty,” which is pretty similar to the Jigga Man’s set of clubs, “40/40.”
↵↵They have accused Ortiz of trading on the fame, value and goodwill of their name through his club Forty/Forty and its website, www.fortyforty.net, which they say has caused their business “marketplace confusion and damage,” the lawsuit said.
↵“David Ortiz is fully aware of plaintiff’s Manhattan 40/40 Club, since he had been a patron there on several occasions long before he opened his infringing Forty/Forty Club,” said the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court.
↵↵So what’s next? Well the easy (obvious?) answer is for Ortiz to simply change his club’s name, or I suppose he could fight it in court, pointing out that the two clubs in question are in different countries (I’m no lawyer). Or maybe they could just reach some kind of agreement, like Ortiz gets to keep the name, so long as he pretends that the Kingdom Come album was never released. Pretty sure S. Carter would sign off on that.
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