A lady tells Web page Six that “Starvation Video games” star Elizabeth Banks and a Hollywood film studio have ripped off her life story — and could also be placing her in grave hazard by doing so. Now she says she plans to sue.
Beverly Hills “facialist to the celebrities,” Daybreak DaLuise, was arrested in 2014 on suspicion of ordering successful towards a rival magnificence guru and spent ten months in jail earlier than being discovered not responsible of the costs.
She has beforehand claimed in courtroom papers that two alleged stalkers — “Bling Ring’ chief Nick Prugo and Edward Feinstein — set her up for the arrest.
However on Wednesday DaLuise was shocked to see a trailer for “Skincare” — a drama that DaLuise says is clearly based mostly on her story — with Banks starring as Hope Goldman, a Beverly Hills facialist who’s plunged right into a lethal ordeal involving a rival magnificence guru. It was the primary she’d heard of the flick.
DaLuise tells us that she has been working with a manufacturing firm to promote the story for a while, and was on the best way to signing a cope with Netflix for a documentary, and she or he fears the Banks film could scupper the venture.
“It may rob me of my potential to inform my very own story,” she instructed us.
However her larger concern is how “Skincare” could have an effect on her life. Prugo and Feinstein pleaded responsible to stalking her and her two daughters, however by no means did jail time. And DaLuise says that she has felt most secure when she’s been ready to make use of the media to “expose” them.
“The media are my minder and my bodyguard,” DaLuise mentioned, including that — whereas she would use her personal venture to forged a lightweight on the duo’s alleged actions — it’s not clear from the trailer that “Skincare” will identify Prugo and Feinstein and even clarify their position within the case.
DaLuise says that because the trailer appeared, she’s been speaking to legal professionals about her choices for going after the filmmakers.
Reps for the studio, IFC Movies, and Banks didn’t get again to us.