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Legal
Akon sues over perfume
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 27 April 2010
Akon has reportedly begun legal action against a former business partner who, the mischievous R&B star claims, used his name to flog a perfume he hadn’t approved.
It seems the Akoniser had been planning a fragrance venture with his former business associates, but the plans fell through. The singer says he then discovered said associates had set up a company called Konvict Cosmetics International which was selling a perfume called Konvict, based, of course, on the name of his second album ‘Konvicted’. According to the New York Daily News, Akon’s lawsuit requests that the courts shut the new venture down.
Of course, the people behind the Konvict fragrance might argue their brand name is nothing to do with Akon’s album (given the removal of the ‘ed’) and is, in fact, a celebration of a totally different convict. Though that might lead to legal proceedings from Lil Wayne.
