7:08 pm - 01/04/2009
A pretty blond Ohio woman used as a decoy for Jamie Lynn Spears in a ham-handed switcheroo to fool paparazzi wants Los Angeles airport police to pay for duping her, too.
Adessa Eskridge, 27, has filed a claim seeking more than $100,000 from the city over the bungled hoax at LAX in September, her Houston-based lawyer Chuck Vernon said.
He said a group of six to eight uniformed cops plucked Eskridge from Jamie Lynn's flight, told her to keep her sunglasses on and marched her to a paparazzi scrum as if she were Britney Spears' kid sister.
"They didn't ask her, they told her. They said, 'You're going to help us,' and she was stunned, just obeying the police. The only time they mentioned Jamie Lynn's name was on the escalator, three seconds before paparazzi surrounded her," Vernon said.
Eskridge, who works in the medical field, flew to Los Angeles for a college football game and felt "publicly humiliated" when video of her supposedly acting as the famous teen mom saturated gossip Web sites, he said.
If the city rejects Eskridge's claim, Vernon said she'll sue.
"For police to protect a celebrity and treat an innocent, normal person the way they did, there should be compensation," he said.
The Los Angeles city attorney's office did not return a call seeking comment.
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Jamie Lynn Spears decoy suing LAX police for duping her
A pretty blond Ohio woman used as a decoy for Jamie Lynn Spears in a ham-handed switcheroo to fool paparazzi wants Los Angeles airport police to pay for duping her, too.
Adessa Eskridge, 27, has filed a claim seeking more than $100,000 from the city over the bungled hoax at LAX in September, her Houston-based lawyer Chuck Vernon said.
He said a group of six to eight uniformed cops plucked Eskridge from Jamie Lynn's flight, told her to keep her sunglasses on and marched her to a paparazzi scrum as if she were Britney Spears' kid sister.
"They didn't ask her, they told her. They said, 'You're going to help us,' and she was stunned, just obeying the police. The only time they mentioned Jamie Lynn's name was on the escalator, three seconds before paparazzi surrounded her," Vernon said.
Eskridge, who works in the medical field, flew to Los Angeles for a college football game and felt "publicly humiliated" when video of her supposedly acting as the famous teen mom saturated gossip Web sites, he said.
If the city rejects Eskridge's claim, Vernon said she'll sue.
"For police to protect a celebrity and treat an innocent, normal person the way they did, there should be compensation," he said.
The Los Angeles city attorney's office did not return a call seeking comment.
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With all the 90s posts, "scrum" made me think of AAH! Real Monsters. :X
90s Nick and Disney were the best. At least I have Dinosaurs (season one and two), Growing Pains (season 1), Who's The Boss? (season 1) and Fraggle Rock (season one, but don't like anymore, but keeping it for future kids) on DVD.
But I see where you were going with it. haha.
Well if that's true, then she has every right to sue.
good lord
i love it when you tackle people...
*wink wink*
morgan + reid = OTP. y/y?
I swear he is the most gorgeous man on the planet.
UNF to the unfiest possibility.