Her former yoga teacher accuses her of plagiarizing her latest book

Alanna Zabel is suing Lauren Sanchez for allegedly stealing her children’s book idea. A movement that comes when the fiancée of tycoon Jeff Bezos is immersed in the promotion of The fly that flew into spaceThe complainant was the reporter’s yoga instructor between 2007 and 2011 and alleges that she had “conversations, both oral and written, that lasted 16 years,” which the author allegedly used to write her work.

Zabel explains in his lawsuit, to which the portal has had access Page Sixwhich The communicator had privileged information about the book that her former teacher was planning to write.. He explains, in fact, that in 2022 he confessed a “very specific” detail about “a cat that flies to Mars.”

This information was part of his book Dharma Kitty Goes to Mars!, which hit bookstores last spring. She herself contacted the owner of Amazon by email because she wanted to “donate the profits from the book’s sales to the Bezos Earth Fund and the Bezos Academy.”

Zabel says that, although she does not know if the businessman read the message, she knows that it reached him because she received the notification that the email had been delivered. With this, she explains, “He entrusted the intellectual property and the original idea” to Sánchez, whom he also describes as “jealous”.

Zabel’s attorney argues in the court document that “the defendant’s actions contained the intent to inflict emotional distress, as they were extreme and heinous, carried out with the intent to harm the plaintiff, driven by personal jealousy and a personal desire to be publicly seen as ‘philanthropic and supportive'”.

It was last March, with the announcement of the book, when Zabel threatened to take legal action. The yoga teacher criticized the promotional campaign because the author explained that the book was a “a metaphor for his learning difficulties because he suffers from dyslexia”“He made obvious changes because of his public persona, focusing on dyslexia, even though there is no mention of it in the book,” she explains.

The plaintiff claims that this fact has caused her anguish and emotional damage, which is why calls for “appropriate compensation”although he has not provided an exact amount. He also demands that the trial be conducted by jury.

It is worth remembering that Zabel made headlines in 2022 for another legal case with another client: Adam Levine, singer of Maroon 5, whom she accused of having treated her “like garbage” when she worked for himAccording to Zabel, Levine would talk to her friends and brag that she had “the best ass in town and that she was pretty.”