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Lily Allen vs. The New York Times

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February 28th, 2009 by Castina

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Lily Allen has slammed The New York Times in online rant after the publication allegedly sold photos of her London home to OK! Magazine without permission.

In an entry on her Myspace Blog on Friday, the big-mouthed singer blasted the “skanky” paper for being “cheap and disgusting.”

Lily says she believed The NY Times was “one of the most respected” publications, therefore she felt comfortable stepping outside of her comfort zone and allowing a photographer to come to her home for a photoshoot to accompany an “intimate” interview promoting her new release, It’s Not Me It’s You.

“Needless to say I was mortified, in fact I was in tears,” Lily wrote, “six photos of inside my home for everyone to see, and a made up interview that was very misleading. All this because I’d let the NYT photographer into my home.”

“I was furious and got on the phone immediately…Everybody assures me this is completely unheard of for the NYT to act in such a cheap and disgusting way.”

But a spokesperson for The Times insists the periodical did nothing wrong:

“As the copyright owner of thousands of photographs, a significant part of our business, like most news organizations, is the syndication of photos to third parties. This is very standard in the news business and I’m sorry that it comes as a surprise to your client.”

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