PRESS RELEASE\n
INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT GROUP WILL FIGHT AN ATTEMPT BY DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER TO BAR NUDE PHOTOS FROM WWW.CLUBLOVE.COM WEBSITE
Seattle (October 23, 1998) - Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), the Company that posted 12 nude and revealing photos of Ms. Laura Schlessinger on its www.clublove.com Website, says it will fight the temporary injunction that forced it to remove the pictures within hours after they went on the Internet. \n IEG says a ruling obtained from U.S. District Court Central District of California Judge Pregerson by Ms. Schlessinger is without merit and the Company expects to have it lifted. While she claims that the photos are not of her, she also states that she owns the copyright to them. \n Shortly after they went on the Internet, thousands of computer users swamped the www.clublove.com Website to get a glimpse of the photos taken by a former boyfriend, Bill Ballance, of a then 28 or 29 year-old Dr. Laura. She was married to her first husband at the time the photos were taken by Mr. Ballance. \n Seth Warshavsky, President of IEG, issued the following statement: "How utterly ironic it is that Dr. Laura claims that the photos in question are phony, and also says that we cannot use them because she holds the copyright to the pictures. It is no more ironic than the fact that this woman has set herself up as a paradigm of morality when she has posed for very sexy photos taken by a lover while still married. We are confident that when all the legal aspects of this case are finished, we will prevail in our right to carry the photos and news stories about Dr. Laura."
