Sigourney Weaver Gets Roped Into Lawsuit

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Poor Sigourney!

The Avatar star has been dragged into an ugly $5 million dollar lawsuit between two cosmetic execs.

Anthony Minuto has filed suit against his former business partner, makeup artist Vincent Longo, owner of the Vincent Longo cosmetic company.

Longo has painted the beautiful faces of Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, and many more.

However, Minuto alleges that Longo dropped him for no reason and refused to cash out his 25% stake of the company. He's now suing for his 25% share plus an additional $5 million in damages.

Weaver also has a small stake in the company, and so she is now a defendant in the case. Minuto said:

"Out of the blue, Vincent wrote me a letter stating that my services were no longer needed and he would not honor any prior agreement or writings that we had made establishing my ownership in the business… It's outrageous. I built and built and built the company up, and got all the pieces into place, and he threw me out. Now they're making money, I tried for three months to get my money from him, to no avail."

Sounds pretty shady! Seems like Longo should at least give Minuto the money he owes him.

Also, seems like Minuto's concerns don't really have to do with Weaver, so we hope she doesn't suffer from this too much!

Bummer!

[Image via WENN.]

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 2:00 pm