Showgirl Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title

0:00It's April 7th. Welcome to Entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI and packed with headlines. A Las Vegas showgirl named Marin Wade, 43 years old, hit Taylor Swift with a trademark lawsuit back on March 30. She's claiming Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, rips off her decade-old brand Confessions of a Showgirl. Wade wants a court order to stop Swift from using it, plus damages for hurting her business rep. Insiders say Wade isn't chasing cash, she's just guarding her turf. Rumors are swirling that Swift is lining up a Vegas residency, maybe seven dates at spots like The Spear, or Park MGM, tied to that album era. Swift teased the album on Travis Kelsey's podcast last August, and talks have been heating up ever since. Wade was all in on Swift before this, flooding her socials with Swiftie posts, hashtags, and even jokes about name clashes. She's a former America's Got Talent contestant, Turn Cabaret star, with her one woman show pulling from her Vegas weekly column since 2014.

1:04Now she worries fans will mix them up and see her as a copycat. Swift's push to trademark Life of a Showgirl for live shows got shot down last year over similarity to Wade's mark, which she locked in back in two. 2015 and renewed recently. Sources close to Wade, whose family has deep pockets including a fancy Bel Air mansion, insists it's no money grab, just preemptive defense before Swift. It dominates Vegas stages. Word is Swift holds over 170 trademarks already, and celebs like Gayle King are riding for her, calling it no big copy. No official response is yet, but with residency buzz building, this shows just getting started.