The 'Skanks in NYC' Soap Opera: Will Google Be Sued?

24.08.2009
Soap opera fans, listen up: The Liskula Cohen is turning into quite the saucy story. In one corner, we have the former Vogue cover girl who claims she's been defamed by a blogger's harsh words. In the other, we have the blogger -- anonymous until a recent court order unmasked her -- who now claims she's the one who's been wronged.

But wait...there's more. Our model and blogger, it seems, are no strangers: The two women were reportedly acquaintances on Manhattan's fashion scene and, according to some newly published accounts, may have even had an ongoing quarrel involving the blogger's ex-boyfriend.

Confused? Aroused? Hungry for a hamburger? Whatever the case may be, keep reading. The story only gets stranger.

The Supermodel-Blogger Backstory

Before you start screaming out "cat fight," let's review what brought us to this point. The twisted tale began back in August of last year, when a then-anonymous blogger built a site at Google's Blogger service entitled "." The blog took on fashion model , a 37-year-old former supermodel who had previously made headlines with an unfortunate involving a Manhattan doorman.

Postings at the blog called Cohen a "skank" and "old hag" and employed such colorful adjectives as "psychotic," "lying," and "whoring." Cohen called the blog defamatory and asked for its writer's name. When Google wouldn't comply, she turned to the New York Supreme Court, which that Google had to reveal the blogger's identity.