Barbie Griffin really is Michelle McCurry
In June of 2003, I started getting Google hits for people looking for “Barbie Griffin”; at the time, I had no idea who she was, and asked about it
It turns out, she was a Hot New Character from Mac & Bumble. Before long, people were adding comments to that post informing me of that, as well as claiming she also used the names “Michelle McCurry”, “Sandy Reed” and others.
I posted a followup article including some basic information and some pictures. In July, I posted another article which gave more pictures, as well as listing all the names she seemed to use.
That article got Tracy Reed’s attention; she was Michell McCurry’s manager, and she was not happy at all. In a series of increasingly hostile phone calls, she threatened me with lawsuits for both copyright infringement and defamation. She assured me up and down that Michell McCurry and Barbie Griffin were different people; if memory serves, I eventually even spoke with Michelle McCurry, and she claimed the same thing. I posted an update saying they weren’t the same people. A week or two later, I got another phone call demanding I take down Michelle McCurry’s name entirely: she was an up-and-coming model, th estory went, and now whenever prospective employers searched on her name they got to my site which pointed them to those awful awful porn pictures she wouldn’t be associated with.
Skipping over the other copyright hassle Tracy stirred up, we get to March of this year. Michelle is now willing to comment here under the name “Barbie Griffin”, and Mac & Bumble is suing her for using the name “Barbie Griffin” on other sites.
I’ll refrain from adding any snarky comments of my own.
2005-06-20 01:57:22 | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0) | Smut::PrettyWomen::WellKinda
