10 Celebrities Who Had Their Likenesses Stolen

By Tom Baker /

4. Kim Kardashian

There€™s this weird trend with commercials these days where if the company in question don€™t get what they want, they simply produce a cheap copy instead. There€™s tons of examples of adverts that have tried to license certain songs, the band have turned them down, and instead they€™ve just hired a soundalike that€™s basically the same tune, only with different lyrics. Pretty cheeky. The stranger development is when adverts hire what are essentially lookalikes to endorse products when they can€™t get the real thing, as was the case with American clothing store Old Navy€™s "Super C-U-T-E" campaign, starring actress Melissa Molinaro as a woman being hounded by the paparazzi wherever she goes. Whilst dressed in Old Navy, obviously.The problem was that Molinaro bore a striking resemblance to Kim Kardashian, somebody who isn€™t averse to the odd endorsement and is also used to being followed by tabloid photographers. The similarities were pretty obvious to anybody paying attention, with Kardashian filing a $20 million lawsuit for violating her "right to publicity".