Toymaker bids to shut down 'porno Barbie' site

Toymaker Mattel went to court to declare that the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls does not belong on a model’s pornographic website.

Toymaker bids to shut down 'porno Barbie' site

Toymaker Mattel went to court to declare that the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls does not belong on a model’s pornographic website.

In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Manhattan, Mattel said the website for an adult entertainer named China Barbie had tried to benefit from Mattel’s success with the 48-year-old line of dolls, which includes Barbie’s sister, Skipper, her best friend Midge, and Skipper’s boyfriend Kevin.

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