Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Biel, Al Pacino, Rob Lowe on dating website match.com
JESSICA Biel, Lindsay Lohan, Al Pacino and Rob Lowe are all looking for love on a dating website that is being sued for illegal use of images.
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IT is a dating website that has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Cast a keen eye over match.com and it's highly likely that you will get a surprise.
Looking at the pictures a youthful Al Pacino, a sultry Lindsay Lohan, a beautiful Jessica Biel and that handsome Rob Lowe can be seen. Surely, they can't be looking for love?
Part-time model and mother Yuliana Avalos, 37, is suing match.com for using her image on its site and sister sites.
Avalos, whose image is used on four profiles of women looking for love, is demanding $1.5 billion
Her lawyer released to the New York Daily News eight sham-dating profiles that he says he found on Match.com and sister sites. The release follows the dating website calling Avalos' lawsuit "meritless" and insisted it was adept at finding fake profiles posted by scammers.
Lohan's picture appears on Jessica4366, a 30-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, who has never been married and wants kids.
"I am tan all year around ... I like Mexican food and anyone can make me laugh with a good joke!" Jessica4366's profile states.
Jessica4366's interests include nightclubs and wine tasting - the only touches of reality to Lohan.
Pacino's picture, from his younger years, is on Algo360, a 48-year-old man looking for love from Dallas, Texas.
Lowe and Biel pictures are used in similarly fraudulent dating profiles, Avalos' lawyer Evan Spencer said.
"I am obligated to defend my client and demonstrate to the public that her case is 100 per cent legitimate and supported in both fact and law," Mr Spencer said in a press release.
Spencer was responding to an earlier statement from Match.com that accused Avalos of creating "conspiracy theories" about alleged misuse of photos online.
"The real scam here is this meritless lawsuit, which is filled with outlandish conspiracy theories and clumsy fabrications in lieu of factual or legal basis," the spokesman said. "We're confident that our legal system is as adept as we are at detecting scammers and will dismiss this case in short order."
Match.com didn't immediately respond to calls for comment Monday on the fake celebrity profiles released by Spencer.
Avalos' four images, all different, were on profiles on Match.com, a Catholic dating website and a Jewish dating website.
Since filing her $1.5 billion lawsuit, Avalos has been contacted by numerous people whose photographs have also been used and by both victims and scammers in Africa, Spencer said.