Rosemary Port.Rosemary Port launches counter-suit against Google after her identity was released to Liskula Cohen, the model she attacked on the web
By Casey Chance
FIRST POSTED AUGUST 25, 2009
Rosemary Port, the New York blogger whose identity was revealed by Google after she called a Vogue model a "skank", is planning to sue the internet giant for $15 million for defamation.
This is the latest twist in a saga which began when Port had used her anonymous blog 'Skanks of NYC', hosted by Google's blogger.com, to call the Canadian model Liskula Cohen the "skankiest in NYC", an "old hag" and a "psychotic, lying, whoring... skank".
Liskula Cohen.
Cohen, 37, then sought the blogger's identity so she could pursue a defamation case against her. Last week, Google took the unprecedented step of releasing Port's details, something it had initially refused to do.
Port, a 29-year-old fashion student [at FIT], originally defended her actions in court, claiming blogs "serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting", and should not be treated as factual assertions, but her claim was rejected by the judge.
Yesterday Port said that Cohen had "defamed herself" by going to the press. "This has become a public spectacle and a circus that is not my doing," Port told the New York Daily News. "Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my website: one from me looking at it, and one from her looking at it," she added. "That was before it became a spectacle."
Port said that in releasing her IP address, Google had put her on a "silver platter for the press to attack me". Her lawyer Salvatore Strazzullo said Google had breached a legal and ethical obligation to protect her expectation of anonymity. "I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court," he said.
[http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52702,news,anonymous-blogger-sues-google-after-being-named-rosemary-port-liskula-cohen-skanks-of-ny]
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