<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So get this: a Detroit woman is suing the creator of &#8220;Empire&#8221; because she says Lee Daniels copied her life story including having a gay family member; and is now suing for $300k! ;<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WAYMENT!! It&#8217;s like everyone one wants a piece of the empire !</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her name is Sophia Eggleston and she alleges that Cookie&#8217;s character is almost a carbon copy of herself.  ;“Cookie was a drug kingpin that went to jail. So did plaintiff Eggleston. Cookie is released from jail confinement and immediately places a hit on a certain individual. Plaintiff . . . actually was jailed for doing the actual hit on a man.” ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So here&#8217;s what [she says] happened: ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Back in 2011 she flew out to LA to meet with a screenwriter, Rita Miller. She gave her a book entitled &#8220;The Hidden Hand&#8221; a story describing her lifestyle as a drug dealer. The meeting later resulted in a call from Miller some months later stating that she had plans of pitching Eggleston&#8217;s story to Lee Daniels. ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fast forward 4 years, in 2015, Empire premiered and Eggleston noticed a lot of &#8220;similar behavior, background, and style of dress&#8221; between herself and Taraji&#8217;s character. ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">UH-OH! ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eggleston&#8217;s copyright suit said she was, &#8220;dismayed to see he various similarities of events and characters &#8230; So numerous and specific, especially &#8230; Cookie Lyon, that independent creation was obviously impossible.&#8221; And hunny Sophia ain&#8217;t here for the alleged stolen identity stating that , &#8220;there is no possibility the similarities are &#8230; Mere coincidence.&#8221; ;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lee Daniels, Co-creator and writer, Danny Strong, and Fox reps were named in the suit but declined to comment. ;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eggleston, who ;<span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">has been jailed twice, busted for drugs and, according to the FBI, was charged last year with Medicare fraud, says</span> ;it wasn&#8217;t until the city was telling her of the similarities that a red flag went up.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">&#8220;The whole city’s been telling me Cookie is basically me. Any jury would rule for me — $300 million is a very small price for taking my whole life and stealing it.” She said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Currently working as a ;<span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">home aid ;</span><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">for the elderly, Egglestom is ;</span><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">reportedly is representing herself in court.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Let&#8217;s chat below!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Source: TMZ, ;<a href="http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2015/08/04/empire-lawsuit-cookie-lee-daniels" target="_blank">http://m.tmz.com/#<wbr>Article/2015/08/04/empire-<wbr>lawsuit-cookie-lee-daniels</a></span></p>
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<p>p style=&#8221;margin: 10px 0px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; padding: 0px;&#8221;><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">TSR intern: Chantel P. Instagram: @_POPchanny | Twitter: @POPchanny ;</span></p>
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