Agents sue over kinky sex TV show...

27 May 2009

3507 Reads
7 Comments

Written by rosalind renshaw

An American couple who work as estate agents are suing a TV producer for $6m (about £3.7m), claiming that two shady characters in a hit drama were named after them.

Melinda and Scott Tamkin had dealt with the producer, Sarah Goldfinger, four years earlier in a property deal that fell through.

An episode of CSI, broadcast in February, featured an estate agent named Melinda, who dies in mysterious circumstances, and her husband Scott, a mortgage broker suspected of killing her.

The episode featured kinky sex, according to the defamation suit filed by the Tamkins. They say Goldfinger humiliated them by showing characters “engaged in a reckless lifestyle of sexual bondage, pornography, drunkenness, marital discord, depression, financial straits and possibly even murder”.

In the episode, the characters are given the surname Tucker. But the suit contends that their surname was Tamkin in the original script.

Comments

- sexy
id love to see this
- 27 May 2009 22:56 PM
- Wooden Top
As they say, if the hat fits....
- 27 May 2009 11:49 AM
- Mr Brightmove
Didn't the film company display a disclaimer at the end of the movie to the effect "Any reference to any person living or dead is entirely coincidental" ?
- 27 May 2009 11:21 AM
- Purely professional
From a purely research prospective...does anyone know how to get a copy of this episode!!!!!!
- 27 May 2009 10:59 AM
- Mr Glum
just a normal day in the life of estate agents!!!!
- 27 May 2009 10:49 AM
- Uncle Bertie
They will only win if they can prove that they did not live a similar reckless lifestyle!
- 27 May 2009 10:39 AM
- Integra
It could only happen in America - anyway I thought all publicity was good publicity!!
- 27 May 2009 10:35 AM