{"id":1523,"date":"2014-10-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T10:50:00","slug":"the-simpsons-aangeklaagd-door-goodfellas-acteur-frank-sivero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/the-simpsons-aangeklaagd-door-goodfellas-acteur-frank-sivero\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Goodfellas\u2019 actor suing Fox over \u2018Simpsons\u2019 character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Sivero has filed a 250 million dollar (=197 million euros) lawsuit against Fox Television Studios over a character on <em>The Simpsons<\/em>.<em> The Simpsons <\/em>would soon feature a mafioso named \u201cLouie\u201d, who was second in command to \u201cFat Tony\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Louie\u2019s appearance and mannerisms are strongly evocative of character actor Frank Sivero. Sivero is notable for playing the role as Frankie Carbone in <em>Goodfellas<\/em> in 1990. The resemblance, in Sivero\u2019s mind, is too much. He alleges his likeness is being infringed in violation of California\u2019s publicity rights law.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Sivero is very protective of his rights, he\u2019s suing a restaurant a few months ago over a sandwich named after his <em>Goodfellas<\/em> character.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Louie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Louie.png\" alt=\"Louie\" width=\"424\" height=\"238\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Louie.png 424w, https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Louie-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLouie in <em>The Simpsons<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Frankie-Carbone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Frankie-Carbone.png\" alt=\"Frankie Carbone\" width=\"422\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Frankie-Carbone.png 422w, https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Frankie-Carbone-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrankie Carbone in <em>Goodfellas<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Sivero has filed a 250 million dollar (=197 million euros) lawsuit against Fox Television Studios over a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/the-simpsons-aangeklaagd-door-goodfellas-acteur-frank-sivero\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccproof.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}