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Saucy co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the more conservative voice of “The View,” has been named in a lawsuit filed yesterday in Boston federal court.By letter dated June 9, 2009, lawyers for Cape Cod author Susan Hassett claim Hasselbeck co... Read Full Story

Saucy co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the more conservative voice of “The View,” has been named in a lawsuit filed yesterday in Boston federal court.By letter dated June 9, 2009, lawyers for Cape Cod author Susan Hassett claim Hasselbeck co... Read Full Story

Elisabeth Hasselbeck , co-host of ABC’s The View , is being sued over accusations her best-selling diet book plagiarized another author’s work. Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide , which made it to The New York Times best seller list, was published in May. Self-Published author Susan Hassett filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hasselbeck claiming she mailed her a copy of her book, Living with Celiac Disease , in April 2008 because she wanted to help Hasselbeck spread awareness on her television show about the condition, which involves an intolerance to gluten. Hassett is also suing Hasselbeck’s publisher, Center ... Read Full Story

Janice Taylor-- Did you hear? Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of ABC's The View, and author the diet book The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide is being sued for copyright infringement by Susan Hassett. Hassett says that Hasselbeck helped herself to substantial portions, pieces, parts, and lists of heavily researched information from her self-published book Living with Celiac Disease , which Hassett kindly sent her in April 2008, when she heard that Hasselbeck had celiac disease. The complaint reads that Ms. Hasselbeck's book, The G-Free Diet, "includes dozens of paraphrased as well as word for word regurgitations of phrases and scrupulously researched factual data entries" ... Read Full Story

Today, in copycat news: First off, The View 's Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who recently published The G Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide , has been sued for copyright infringement by a woman named Susan Hassett, a self-published author who'd sent Hasselbeck a copy of her own book, Living with Celiac Disease , last year. " If these allegations / charges are proven in a court of law then I'll just have more reason to be annoyed by Elisabeth ," writes MamaPop . TMZ has a copy of the letter Hassett's lawyer wrote to Hasselbeck , and Gawker lists some of the similarities between the ... Read Full Story