“The Sneaky Chef” author embroiled in a legal battle with Jerry Seinfeld and his cookbook-writing wife claims the funny man’s snarky jokes “scared” both the author and her young daughter.
In federal court papers, Missy Chase Lapine says she “started feeling scared” after hearing about Seinfeld’s appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” where he joked, “Many of the three-named people do become assassins.”
“I have never felt so frightened and vulnerable as the day my daughter, 7 years old, came home from school and asked, ‘Mom, what is an assassin?’ ” Lapine said.
Seinfeld has denied he slandered Lapine, arguing his schtick is protected by the First Amendment and part of his long-standing routine of “mocking the litigious nature of society.”
The Seinfelds’ lawyers couldn’t be reached.