Jessica Simpson has had a fairly noteworthy year so far. She's recording a new album, is getting divorced from Nick Lachey and has parlayed her considerable shopping skills into a line of affordable, somewhat designer-looking duds. And while the album and divorce seem to be going along as planned, it seems Simpson's fashion label is hitting some rough waters. Eonline.com reports that Simpson is being sued by the producers of her clothing line for not promoting it. Eonline says that Simpson signed a multimillion dollar, three-year licensing deal with Tarrant Apparel Group in December of 2004. "Under the terms of the agreement," the site says, "Simpson was supposed to be 'actively involved' in promoting the garb, including wearing items from the line at 'public events, shows and appearances' whenever 'reasonably practical'" but has failed to live up to her end of the bargain. Simpson has rarely, if ever, been seen in public in her mid-priced designs, and on one red carpet event even named True Religion jeans as her favorite... over her own Princy line.She's now being sued for $100 million, and it's hard to feel sorry for her. She did, after all, come up with this idea to make herself about $8.5 million dollars (not including her cut of the sales). If you're too dumb to remember to make money off your fame, then you don't deserve to be famous.




In an unexpected smackdown, Thomas Dolby, who had a hit with his 1980s geek-pop masterpiece "She Blinded Me With Science," launched a potentially illegal attack on Britney Spears' husband Kevin Federline this past week for allegedly sampling that new-wave hit. K-Fed found the sample of "She Blinded Me With Science" in Mobb Deep's "Got It Twisted," which sampled the song with Dolby's permission.

Upon hearing that the sample appeared in K-Fed's latest attempt at music, "America's Most Hated," Dolby fired back on his blog: "K-Fed, as his fans affectionately refer to him, did NOT ask permission, he just went ahead and did it. He is therefore blatantly violating the copyright law. And laws aside, he owed it to me as an artist to ask if I minded that he recorded a vitriolic rap over the top of my music."

You just got served, Federline. Britney's embarrassing husband has since taken the track down from his MySpace (where Dolby first discovered it), though there's no word about what will happen to the song in the end.