NYP Holdings v. Lavandeira [1]

In May 2005, NYP Holdings, Inc., the owner of the New York Post, sued Mario Lavandeira (a.k.a Perez Hilton) for trademark law violations and unfair competition in federal court in New York.  NYP Holdings alleged that Lavandeira's operation of the PageSixSixSix gossip blog and use of the domain name "www.pagesixsixsix.com" [2] violated its federal and state trademark rights in its "Page Six" trademark. The parties settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and Lavandeira changed the website name to PerezHilton.com [3].