Cynthia Nixon, probably best known for playing Miranda on “Sex and the City,” has announced that she and her girlfriend of five years are engaged. Nixon, who has a son and daughter with former boyfriend Danny Mozes, met Christine Marinoni, an education activist, in early 2004 and the two began dating later that year.
Nixon said that she never had an issue with her sexuality. After being in a fifteen year heterosexual relationship, she simply “met this woman” and “I fell in love with her.”
Calling their relationship “fantastic,” the two have now decided to make it legal – well, sort of. Making their engagement announcement at a Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally on Sunday, the couple hopes to make it legal in New York City, but that isn’t possible right now. The rally was held in support of an upcoming bill that would allow same-sex marriages in New York.
Not too long ago, I blogged about a lawsuit filed by Woody Allen against the clothing firm American Apparel. They had used images of Allen without his permission and he was asking for $10 million in damages. I thought it was funny that the attorney for American Apparel said the company didn’t feel Allen’s image was worth that much, given his scandalous affair with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his once longtime companion Mia Farrow.
So just how much is Woody Allen’s image worth? He settled today for $5 million. The announcement was made today in a federal court in Manhattan, with American Apparel’s insurance company picking up the tab.
Allen issued a statement saying that he hoped this “would discourage American Apparel or anyone else from ever trying such a thing again.” He also said that American Apparel’s attempt to use the First Amendment in its defense was “sheer nonsense.”
American Apparel seems to be less bitter. Company president Dov Charney said “I have respect for Mr. Allen” and that he hoped “to meet him on more friendly terms at a different point.”