Posted on 09/25/2007 9:02:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
For whatever reason, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton wants this photo taken
down from inside Osso Buco in Greenwich Village. She's so serious she has recruited her father,
former President Bill Clinton, and a team lawyers to see that it's done.
(CBS) NEW YORK -- A celebrity photo has led a former president to send a threatening letter to a local restaurant owner.
On Tuesday night, President Bill Clinton demanded that a Manhattan restaurant remove a picture of his daughter Chelsea.
The picture has been up for years, but now it's posing a problem.
She's the former first daughter and a current customer at Osso Buco. But private citizen Chelsea Clinton doesn't want the photo of her with owner Nino Selimaj hanging in the restaurant.
So her Presidential Papa is demanding they take it down.
You may remember Selimaj. Earlier this year he made national headlines for offering a $1,000 pizza at his restaurant. Now he's butting heads with the former leader of the free world.
March 14: Luxury Pie: NYC Restaurant Offers $1,000 Pizza
Customer John Cremin says the Selimaj should comply with Clinton's request.
"She doesn't want to be involved with advertising for the store," Cremin said. "That's up to her. It's her God given right, no?"
Nino Selimaj says the photo has graced his restaurant window for nearly five years, and admits it's been good for business.
He says he was surprised to receive a letter from the Clinton's lawyer demanding he take the picture down. On official William Jefferson Clinton letterhead, was a threat to take further action: "We reserve the right to exercise any and all options available to us if you refuse to comply."
Selimaj says the letter came as quite a shock.
"I was really, really heartbroken because I have four daughters and Chelsea is like my daughter," Selimaj said. "She doesn't want to be there. If that comes from them directly, definitely, I will remove it. If she really insists to remove it."
Selimaj has photos with other celebrities like Regis Philbin, Derek Jeter and even 2008 Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hanging in his restaurant and he says they haven't objected.
Customer Iris Elkabs says she thinks Chelsea should reconsider.
"She has a right," Elkabs said. "If she doesn't like it, it should come down, but I think it should stay. It's a very nice photograph."
Here's a simple solution: Take the picture down and sell the letter on eBay.
-PJ
“”We reserve the right to exercise any and all options available to us if you refuse to comply.””
Hope his fire insurance policy is paid up.
Great!
Her father lost his law license over a legal infraction. She shouldn’t have called him into this suit.
This photo bothered and humiliated Chelsea so much, she ran to her daddy to help her get it removed - the same daddy who spent his time in our Oval Office stuffing a cigar into an intern.
Hey, Chelsea, ever heard of Juanita Broaddrick? Maybe you should be outraged at your father the rapist instead of some restaurant owner you posed with.
: “We reserve the right to exercise any and all options available to us if you refuse to comply.”
Well, they sure don’t limit themselves to legal options.
Take it down from the window... and send it to one of the weekly tabloids.
I’m sure that Time Robbins, Mr. Susan Sarandon, will speak out against this chill wind and not letting these people take the White House again, right? Right?
Sounds like a letter you would get your lawyer to write. Is Bill practicing law?
Who wants to look at Web Hubble while they are eating anyway?
I am with you on the spoil appetite. I would request that they cover up the picture before I could eat there.
I am with you on the spoiled appetite. I would request that they cover up the picture before I could eat there.
Isn’t it custom to continue referring to them as presidents? Seems like that is generally the rule for senators and such as well.
bingo
I think so, unfortunately in the cases of Clinton & Carter. Newt is still called Mr. Speaker by some I believe, like on H & C.
Put a censor bar over her face with the caption: Censored by Chelsea Clinton.
Good one!
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