… for $15m. Seriously.

Port, 27, is displeased at being outed to the press and her accusers as the woman behind the catty “Skanks in NYC” blog, which was hosted on Google’s free Blogger service. Port raged to the New York Daily News about how her rights were breached:

“This has become a public spectacle and a circus that is not my doing,” said Port, whose “Skanks in NYC” site branded the 37-year-old Cohen an “old hag.”

“By going to the press, she defamed herself,” Port said.

“Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my Web site: One from me looking at it, and one from her looking at it,” Port said. “That was before it became a spectacle. I feel my right to privacy has been violated.”

Alleging that Google ”breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity,” Port’s lawyer compared her to the founding fathers and vowed to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Minor nitpick: the founding fathers did not at any point call King George a “skank,” a “ho,” nor did they disseminate unflattering portraiture of the monarch simulating fellatio or any similar activity. Other than that though, totally fair analogy. Port explains her reasoning on the whole “I deserve money” thing:

“When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected,” Port said.

“But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users.”

So to recap, Liskula Cohen is so over it and dropped her pending $3m defamation suit against Port, who is now suing Google for complying with an order to reveal her identity. But, of course, it’s not about the millions- Port says:

“I feel proud to live in a country where you’re not persecuted for your opinions,” Port added. “That right has to be protected.”

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Liskula Cohen: The “Skanks In NYC” Blog Lawsuit

The “Skanks In NYC” blog refers to Liskula Cohen as a “skank” and “old hag,” among other things.

“Don’t you guys think she should grow and an get on with her life?” one post reads. “I mean really, 40 year old women (or in her case that look 40) shouldn’t be out at night looking and acting like ho’s.”

Cohen wants Google to reveal the identity of the person behind the blog and has filed a defamation suit in Manhattan’s Supreme Court to try to make it happen, the New York Daily News reports.

Liskula Cohen’s “Skanks In NYC” lawsuit suggests the comments on the Blogger.com-hosted site are libelous and defamatory.

The blogger is identified only as “livenandlove.”

About Liskula Cohen

Liskula Cohen has modeled for campaigns by Versace and Giorgio Armani. She was in the news last summer when the doorman at Manhattan’s Hudson Hotel was arrested after allegedly cracking a glass vodka bottle on Cohen’s face.

Blogger Identity Lawsuits

Google and other blog-hosting providers have been sued in similar suits plenty of times before. Google India is currently facing a lawsuit by an Indian construction company that wants to know the identity of a blogger posting negative things about its business on a Google-hosted site. AOL also recently received a subpoena for it to reveal the identity of a blogger writing critical comments about the Memphis Police Department on an AOL-hosted blog. That case was eventually dropped.

Traditionally, most of the blog hosting companies have not willingly divulged blogger identities. Google has yet to issue any public comment on the Liskula Cohen “Skanks In NYC” blog lawsuit.

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