OSCAR BOSSES SUE OVER TICKET SCANDAL
Organisers of the upcoming Academy Awards have filed suit against a company accused of selling fraudulent ticket packages to the glittering ceremony.
Lawyers for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences filed papers in a Los Angeles Federal District Court on Monday (26Jan09) claiming ticket firm McMurry Inc. has been selling phony Oscars packages.
The legal documents accuses bosses at the company of offering members of the public a $175,000 (£120,000) deal which would include tickets to the 22 February (09) event, as well as a seven day stay in L.A. with luxury hotel accommodation thrown in.
But Oscars organisers claim that as tickets for the ceremony as non-transferable, people buying the packages would be marked as trespassers and not allowed into the Kodak Theatre venue at all, according to TMZ.com.
The Academy Awards board have requested an injunction be granted against McMurry Inc. to stop them selling any more deals, as well as compensatory and punitive damages.
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