Don’t believe what you’ve read: Clint Eastwood is not leaving Tinseltown to pursue a career in selling CBD products.
The Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director, known for his roles in “Dirty Harry,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” and “Gran Torino,” filed two lawsuits in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday against CBD makers, sellers and online retailers who he falsely claimed were endorsing his products through fake news articles, spam emails and web metadata.
The 90-year-old Hollywood legend is seeking millions of dollars in damages and a court order forcing companies to give up their profits.
The first lawsuit explodes as a bogus online interview in which the famous actor claimed that his new role in the sale of CBD offered him “something bigger than the movies.”
“This was a very, very difficult decision for me,” Eastwood says in the interview about his decision to leave Hollywood.
The article came with a photo of Eastwood from an appearance on the “Today” show, along with the show’s logo, as well as testimonials on the effectiveness of Eastwood’s CBD line from Hollywood friends Terry Bradshaw, Sam Elliott, Michael J Fox and Garth Arroyos.
“Sir. Eastwood has no connection whatsoever to any CBD product and never gave that interview,” court documents on the article said.
The lawsuit is directed at three CBD companies: Sera Labs Inc., Greendios and For Our Vets LLC, for being behind the defamatory article.
A representative from Sera Labs told The Post that the company hired a marketing and advertising company and gave them “strict guidelines” for “specific ads they could use” that did not include the use of the Clint Eastwood name. When Sera Labs learned that the company was using Eastwood’s “name and likeness” for the ads, they “closed the ads” and fired the company.
“Sera’s internal guidelines vividly prohibit the use of celebrities or false claims in her ads, and she used completely different ads that had been changed for the Eastwood ad without any knowledge,” the representative said.
Efforts to reach Greendios and for our vets were unsuccessful.
Eastwood also sued 10 companies and individuals who he says used a programming code to insert their name into CBD’s online product search results in order to mislead consumers into thinking that dirty Harry himself manufactured or approved.
“It’s no different than putting up a billboard in front of a CBD store with a picture of Mr. Eastwood and saying that the store sells ‘Clint Eastwood CBD products’, to attract customers to your store, just to sell them different products that It has nothing to do with Mr. Eastwood, “said an Eastwood representative.
The defendants, including Norok Innovation, Natural Stress Solutions and Mabsut Life US Corp., did not respond to requests for comment.
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