T.I. and Tiny’s ‘OMG Girlz’ Trial Begins, Claim Popular Dolls Stole Group’s Image
Clifford “T.I.” Harris and Tameka “Tiny” Harris have filed a lawsuit against MGA Entertainment, claiming the company copied the likeness of their group OMG Girlz for the line of “L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G” dolls. Rolling Stone‘s Nancy Dillon reported the couple is seeking “economic justice” in their lawsuit against the company.
According to the report, the lawyer representing MGA asserts the husband and wife have no claim to MGA profits, calling the lawsuit a “shakedown” based on “fabricated claims.”
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“(They) want tens of millions of dollars from MGA Entertainment for doing absolutely nothing, and I do mean nothing. We’re going to show you that the OMG Girlz actually copied us, and now complain we look like them,” said their lawyer Jennifer Keller. “They were trend followers, not trendsetters.”
More photos from filings show similarities between the girl group OMG Girlz (formed/developed by Tameka "Tiny" Harris and T.I. in 2009) & the "L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G." dolls marketed by toy giant MGA starting in 2019, after the girl group mostly disbanded pic.twitter.com/yR5K3ey1BK
— Nancy Dillon (@Nancy__Dillon) January 17, 2023