After two years of silliness, a New York Supreme Court has thrown out Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive.
Lohan and another person, reality TV star Karen Gravano, filed a lawsuit against the publisher of Grand Theft Auto V in the summer of 2014. The suit accused Take-Two of using both of their likenesses to create the fictional character Lacey Jonas in the game. Lohan argues that the blonde character resembled her physically and narratively.
In March of this year, the same judge in the Supreme Court had ruled that the lawsuit could go forward. After reviewing the evidence, which included a 67-page complaint filed by Lohan with 45 pages of evidence, the judge decided to dismiss the case.
“As to Lohan’s claim that an avatar in the video game is she and that her image is used in various images, defendants also never referred to Lohan by name or used her actual name in the video game, never used Lohan herself as an actor for the video game, and never used a photograph of Lohan,” the judge explained in his motion to dismiss.
“This video game’s unique story, characters, dialogue, and environment, combined with the player’s ability to choose how to proceed in the game, render it a work of fiction and satire,” the Court ruled.
