Playboy Wants to Strip Columnist of Her Title

Playboy dumped its “Lawyer of Love” columnist last year. Now the Chicago-based magazine wants to take away her moniker.

The gentlemen’s mag filed suit in federal court against Corri Fetman, a 45-year-old Chicago divorce attorney who posed nude for the site and worked as a legal columnist, seeking to strip the buxom blonde of her nom-de-plume, according to the Sun-Times.

Playboys says it owns the “Lawyer of Love” brand name, and they want Fetman to stop using it in advertisements and on her website.

Fetman now writes a blog for Chicago Now called "Love Lawyer."

The magazine picked up Fetman after she ran a series of billboards around town saying “Life is Short. Get a Divorce.”

Things went sour between Fetman and Playboy after she accused Thomas Hagopian, an executive at Playboy Enterprises, of groping her and sending her sexually explicit e-mails and phone calls. When she turned him down, Hagopian took away her column, she claims.

Fetman is suing for more than $4.5 million in damages, including "gender violence" and emotional distress.

A Playboy spokesperson said that Hagopian had left the company last year but would not give details on his departure.

"We take these allegations very seriously," the spokesperson said. "We will follow our internal policies and procedures and complete our own investigation of this matter."
 

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