Lindsay Lohan order to halt work on fashion app Vigme

Lindsay Lohan has been ordered to put a pin in the upcoming launch of her new e-commerce fashion app Vigme, after a Manhattan Supreme Court Judged issued a temporary restraining order preventing her from “launching, promoting or marketing” their “virtual closet” app.

The court order, which was issued by Judge Saliann Scarpulla last week, comes after a former business associate, Fima Potik, filed a lawsuit in September against Lohan, her brother Michael Jr. and business associate Christopher Roth, claiming they stole the idea for the fashion app from him.

The lawsuit dates back to 2013, when the Lohans and Roth first met Potik and later became equity members of his fashion app Spotted Friend. The app, which lets users view their friends wardrobes as well as celebrities wardrobes and purchase their items, was available in a beta version at the time, which Potik shared with the Lohans, along with other marketing materials. He had hoped that the actress would help market his fashion app.

However, months later she launched a social e-commerce website entitles Vigme, which Potik claims is nothing less than a “virtual clone” of Spotted. “Vigme’s mobile application . . . is nearly identical in design and layout to Spotted Friend’s mobile application,” said the former business associate to Page Six.

Potik is said to be seeking 60 million dollars in damages from the Lohans. His lawyers, Kenneth David and Marc Kasowitz, claim that “the Lohans’ egregious theft of the design, layout and functionality of Spotted Friend’s app [is] in blatant violation of their contractual and fiduciary duties."[The court order] helps ensure that the Lohans will not profit from their illegal conduct at Spotted Friend’s expense.”

Since the court order has been issued, the Lohans' lawyer, Ravi Batra, has revealed that temporary restraining order serves to “preserve the status quo” until the the siblings file their own court papers “backing up their claim that Fima is an inept plagiarizer who fraudulently induced Lindsay, Mike and Chris to join him with [false] representations that he would have a product-recognizing app by June 2013 — an app he still hasn't created.”