# Hilarious "Smoking Gun" item about Liza Minnelli and David Gest vs MTV

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**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-smoking-gun-item-about-liza-minnelli-and-david-gest-vs-mtv/153464 "2003-02-07T14:59:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-smoking-gun-item-about-liza-minnelli-and-david-gest-vs-mtv/153464/1 "2003-02-07T14:59:52Z")

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This is hilarious.

[MTV vs Liza Minnelli and David Gest](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/vh1counter1.html)

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> After being sued for $23 million by Liza Minnelli and David Gest, VH1 fired back today (2/6) with a blistering legal counterattack that portrayed Gest–and not Liza–as an overbearing, unprofessional diva prone to “erratic and deceitful conduct that went so far beyond the acceptable bounds of show business eccentricity” as to help capsize the kooky couple’s reality TV program before a single episode could be completed.