Article: Seinfeld's lawyers: Defamation lawsuit? What is the deal with that?

NEW YORK (AP) - Jerry Seinfeld claims a cookbook author is cooking up some fancy semantics by calling him an actor rather than a comedian to minimize the humor in statements she says defamed her.Lawyers for Seinfeld say Missy Chase Lapine's lawyers resorted to the switch in words to describe Seinfeld when, several weeks ago, they filed a rewritten version of her lawsuit against him and his wife in U.S. District Court in Manhattan."Jerry Seinfeld is an enormously wealthy and well-known actor," Lapine's revised lawsuit said. The original had called him a comedian.Lapine, the author of "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals," accused Seinfeld's ...

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