Boyling over
An advertising executive sued her boss for a staggering £3.9million after a bullying campaign that culminated with her being compared with Susan Boyle.
Laura Ziv, 45, from New Jersey, New York, was mocked relentlessly by her manager at fragrance giant Firmenich. But one of the final straws was being compared to the I Dreamed a Dream singer who came to fame on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
According to the lawsuit Pierini attended a party by the company’s biggest client and was “repeatedly referring to Ziv as “Susan Boyle” a Scottish singer who is often taunted in the media as being old, fat and ugly.”
Fruit oops
A Glaswegian police officer tried to sue for £1.5million as a result of a pineapple-related injury.
Bizarrely, police officer Tracey Ormsby, 37, was struck by the tropical fruit, during a protest at the closure of a swimming pool in 2001.
She claimed that she was forced to quit her job as a result of the minor injury and spent three years as a mentally scarred recluse.
But when the case went to court a judge heard how Tracey had taken trips around the world and the counsel for Strathclyde Police, claimed she yelled: “Ker-ching, I’m in the money!” when a doctor diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. But she was still awarded £3,000.
Va va voom
When a woman won a car after entering a competition run by her local radio station, she was overjoyed…until she found out it was a 4inch long model of the motor.
Cathy McGowan thought she’d got a full-sized Renault Clio from Radio Buxton, Derbyshire in 2001 and was furious when she found out she hadn’t.
So Cathy, 26, sued them for £8,000, the price of the real thing. A judge at the crown court in Derby said a contract had been formed between the station and the competition winner, and they were duly ordered to pay up.
•Rolf Eden eventually dropped the lawsuit against the teenager who turned his advances down (Photo: Getty)
Older but not wiser
Playboy Rolf Eden sued a teenager for ageism because she refused to have sex with him.
In 2007 the German strip club owner, then 77, had his advances rejected by Katharina Weiss, 19, despite plying her with champagne in a bid to seduce her.
Eden was particularly surprised because he claims to have slept with up to 3,000 women.
“It was shattering,” he said, just before he eventually dropped the lawsuit. “No woman ever said that to me before.”
Court out
Though Americans seem to sue people at the drop of a hat, prisoner Jonathan Lee Riches – who’s filed almost 4,000 lawsuits from his Kentucky jail cell – takes the biscuit.
Many have been important actions, with his targets including Adolf Hitler, The Eiffel Tower, The Garden of Eden and the former planet, Pluto.
Not all of them have focused on dead people or inanimate objects, however. Jonathan, 39, has also tried to sue George W Bush and Britney Spears.
Then, in 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records tried to list him as the most litigious individual in history. So he sued them too.
But in 2010 he got his comeuppance when the US Attorney’s Office in Kentucky sued him for wasting judicial resources.
Domestic dispute
When a woman rationed her husband to one sex session a week, he took her to court – and won.
David Mason, 30, sued wife Brenda, 31, even though her only concern was not getting pregnant for a third time. The mechanic from Basingstoke, Hants, emerged victorious from court in 1980.
But she took it to appeal and judges decided that no court could rule she was being unreasonable.
Cash all situation
A man who was bitten by a dog in New York sued the city for, literally, all the money on the planet.
Enraged Anton Purisima, 62, has filed a lawsuit calling for two undecillion dollars – $2,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – for his injuries.
After being nipped by a rabid canine on a bus, he had an infected middle finger. He also felt his suffering couldn’t be fully compensated for by money, but the huge sum he was asking for might help.
Scent of victory
It’s a problem which many young male students suffer from, but it’s rare for a stand-off over smelly feet to end in court action. But that’s just what happened in 2009 when philosophy undergraduate Teunis Tenbrook sued Erasmus University in Rotterdam after they expelled him for his insufferably stinky extremities.
Staff at the centre of learning said the strong pong made it impossible to work. But after being kicked out Teunis launched a 10-year court action which ended with a judge saying that staff would just have to “hold their noses.”
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