Ever since Jeff Bezos married Lauren Sánchez, folks have been very within the former journalist. Sort of what occurs if you marry one of many richest males on the earth. And Sánchez hasn’t simply light into the background, both. She’s been entrance and heart subsequent to Bezos, will co-host the Met Gala with him, and has been busy selling her kids’s books.
Which is why the brand new revelations about her supposed curiosity in Invoice Clinton years in the past are actually resurfacing. Yoga teacher Alanna Zabel, a former pal of Sánchez, claimed in a lawsuit that Sánchez expressed curiosity in ex-President Invoice Clinton after assembly him in 2009. Sufficient that her pal gave her the nickname “Monica.”
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“In communications with Sánchez, Zabel generally used the title ‘Monica’ to consult with Sánchez,” in keeping with the lawsuit. The lawsuit by Zabel claims Sánchez stole her concept for a kids’s ebook.
Not simply that, the lawsuit says Bezos’ new spouse “appeared to have loved this nickname.”
“She mentioned [Clinton] was so attractive and mesmerizing,” Zabel informed The Submit, per Web page Six. “She actually wished to satisfy him and get an interview … She couldn’t cease speaking about Invoice Clinton.”
Sánchez did interview Clinton in 2010, and on the time, folks commented on the flirty exchanges within the interview.
Within the lawsuit, Zabel alleges Sánchez’s 2024 ebook “The Fly Who Flew to Area” took plot factors, story arcs, and subject material from her ebook, “Dharma Kitty Goes to Mars,” which was revealed a 12 months earlier. The lawsuit was filed in California, with Sánchez, writer of the Collective Guide Studio and distributor Simon & Schuster, all named within the declare.
Zabel alleges the 2 mentioned the thought of making a kids’s ebook collectively after Sánchez informed her a narrative a few helicopter journey the place a fly was caught to the windshield your complete time. Zabel had written kids’s books earlier than, so the 2 mentioned making this story right into a doable ebook.
“It’s paralyzing to observe a former shopper with a vendetta in opposition to you who marries the richest man in world, then takes your coronary heart’s ardour and pretends it’s hers,” Zabel additionally informed The Submit. She additionally claims Sánchez minimize off contact from her in 2009, after she upstaged her on her 40th celebration.
Sánchez’s attorneys responded that the “declare is frivolous,” in keeping with an August court docket submitting. “The Works will not be related aside from the truth that they’re each kids’s books that contain a spontaneous journey to house,” the response learn. Zabel “doesn’t personal the idea of a school-age character unexpectedly taking a visit to and from house,” attorneys additionally argued.
Plus, the response notes that Zabel “assaults [Sánchez] with irrelevant allegations that she is jealous of Plaintiff, ‘harbor[s] resentment in direction of,’ and is out ‘to actual revenge’ or is ‘trolling’ Plaintiff.”
“These allegations are irrelevant to a copyright infringement evaluation, however are clearly meant to paint this Courtroom in opposition to Ms. Sánchez within the hope that it’ll assume there isn’t any smoke with out fireplace. This Courtroom ought to disregard them.”






