The estate of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix said it has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against a company that promoted Hendrix Electric vodka.
The Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix companies in Seattle said they won a $3.2 million federal court judgment that orders the vodka to be pulled from the market.
The family owned companies filed the lawsuit in 2007 against Seattle businessman Craig Dieffenbach, who packaged the vodka in purple-tinted bottles with Hendrix’s face and signature above the label.
Hendrix died in 1970 at age 27.
Actor Gary Collins has been charged with drunken driving, Santa Barbara authorities said.
The actor and former TV host has two previous drunken-driving convictions, and authorities say he could face up to 120 days in jail if convicted.
The California Highway patrol arrested Collins on Jan. 31 on suspicion of driving a motor home while drunk.
Authorities gauged his blood alcohol content as .29, more than three times the .08 level at which a person is presumed impaired, said Lee Carter, Santa Barbara senior deputy district attorney.
The 70-year-old is a former host of the Miss America Pageant and has appeared in numerous episodes of TV series such as “The Young and the Restless” and “JAG.”
The author of a discredited Holocaust memoir is not apologizing. Herman Rosenblat, who has acknowledged inventing his story of meeting his wife on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he has no regrets and would tell the story again given another chance.
“It wasn’t a lie,” he said during a taped segment aired Wednesday. “It was my imagination, and in my mind, I believed it. Even now, I believe it.”
Until scholars refuted him, Rosenblat and his wife, Roma, were beloved worldwide and appeared twice over the past decade on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show.
Rosenblat, a Holocaust survivor whose book, “Angel at the Fence,” was pulled last year before publication, said his wife went along with his story “because she loves me.”
Associated Press
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