Blogging comes with a price as one blogger could be about to find out as a former Vogue cover girl, Liskula Cohen, threatens to sue Google to uncover the identity of a blogger who labelled her a "skank" and an "old hag".Cohen who as far as I can tell looks, well, like a tall blonde attractive model wants Google to hand over details of the Blogger account set up in July 2008 used by "Skanks in NYC", which as the name says is about "skanks" in New York.He has this to say about Cohen who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace."Ok so there are so many nasty bithces [sic] in the NYC scene, so now we can write about them. I would have to say that the first place award for "Skankiest in NYC" would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen. How old is this skank? 40 something? She's a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank. Yeah she may have been hot 10 years ago, but is it really attractive to watch this old hag straddle dudes in a nightclub or lounge? Desperation seeps from her soul, if she even has one."Don't you guys think she should grow and an get on with her life? I mean really, 40 year old women (or in her case that look 40) shouldn't be out at night looking and acting like ho's. What kind of guy wants a skank *** like that?"
Clearly, Mister Skank didn't even Google poor Cohen who is only 36, but she has certainly Googled him and Google."It's petty, it's stupid and it's pathetic," Cohen said. "And when I do find out who did this, at least I'll know who my enemies are. I'm tall, I'm blond, I've been modelling for many years, and people get jealous," she said. "If I had to deal with everyone who is jealous, I wouldn't have time to do anything else."Cohen has filed a defamation suit in Manhattan Supreme Court that seeks a court order to compel Google to hand over details, but there is no guarantee that Google will be able to tell who the blogger is.As we all know it is very easy to set up a blog with a fake email address and after that there is next to no way to trace the writer. In the case 'Skanks NYC' it could be a little easier as he appears to have posted pictures of himself in various poses simulating sex under the headline: "Im Skanky and I know and I really like to show it.......I'm skanky and I know it clap your hands!!!!!!"Cohen's lawyer Steven Wagner thinks they have a case. "We think we have a case. This is libellous, it's defamatory and you shouldn't just get away with this."Happily not everyone agrees and posters on the blog including liveandlove have sprung to the model's defence."Are you one of those little dumpy girls who hang off her every word?. Or do you wait three hours in line at a club, when she breezes right in? Tell me, are you easier to walk over or around?" liveandlove wrote. Google declined to comment on Cohen's complaint.
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It would appear to be clearly defamatory but nothing unusual for the circles in which Ms Cohen resides, will be interesting how this one plays out in the courts and what, if any precedents are laid down.
Wow. Words fail me.
"It's petty, it's stupid and it's pathetic," Cohen said. "And when I do find out who did this, at least I'll know who my enemies are. I'm tall, I'm blond, I've been modelling for many years, and people get jealous," she said. "If I had to deal with everyone who is jealous, I wouldn't have time to do anything else."
Petty, stupid and pathetic. Couldn't have put it better myself.
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