No, it's not us - but the mother of actress Alyssa Milano has threatened sex reporter Billy Wildhack and his Web site because the site turned up on an Internet search using the actress's name.
"Our recent search utilising the words…disclosed your site," Lin Milano wrote in a letter Wildhack has posted on his Web site, adding that that means the site "is either utilizing pictures of Ms. Milano or utilizing her name in your metatags to lure people to your site." The elder Milano says that violates state law.
"(She) apparently can't tell the difference between an image gallery and a news story," says Wildhack on his site.
Wildhack says the row is prompted by a story he wrote about mother and daughter a year ago. The story, he says, "is an unflattering look at certain pampered, privileged Hollywood monkeys who like to go around bitching that their nude pics are turning up on the Internet." He says Lin Milano never looked at the page she complained about, but "roam(ed) the net like a drunken Russian soldier in a Chechen village, firing at anything that looks like a target."
Mrs. Milano has demanded Wildhack cease using her daughter's name, image, and likeness or face legal action. Wildhack all but challenged her to try.
"OK, Lin, do that (turn it over to the actress's attorney)," he says. "Then he can explain to you the First Amendment and the Fair Use provision of U.S. and international copyright laws."
Milano first achieved fame as a child star in the television sitcom Who's The Boss, portraying former Taxi star Tony Danza's precocious daughter. She later made such films as Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story, Commando, Fear, and Body Count.
