Ah, the price of fame!
Brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss can’t sue an angry former business partner for defamation because they are “public figures,” an appeals court has determined.
The 6-foot-5 identical twins — who gained their fame after suing Mark Zuckerberg, saying he stole their idea to create Facebook when they were all attending Harvard — brought the defamation case against Todd Steinberg, who said they backed out of a $500,000 investment deal for a start-up app called Eaze that delivers marijuana to customers.
Last month, the First Department appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to toss the defamation part of the suit ruling that the 37-year-olds — who became bitcoin billionaires in 2017 — are “public figures,” since they garnered fame after going to the Olympics as rowers and xxx.
