Remember how smug Jerry Seinfeld was about the whole plagiarism thing about his wife’s cookbook, Deceptively Delicious? How he called Missy Chase Lapine, a nutjob on national TV? And how he pretended that the rich and famous were less petty than the poor and insignificant?

Well, that nutjob is suing Seinfeld for defamation and his wife, Jessica, for plagiarism. The suit doesn’t specify monetary damages, but the Seinfelds are rich, so she's probably expecting a bigger payday than she would have gotten from her cookbook anyway. And without Bee Movie to promote, Seinfeld will have to rely on re-runs of the Shrinkage episode to win back public opinion.

• John Travolta is still frightening people with his greasy, Brandon Davis hair.

• Amy Winehouse is still insisting she's not on drugs.

• Jessica Seinfeld is still claiming she's too rich, successful to plagiarize from non-famous people.

• Paris Hilton is still an exhibitionist.

• Beyonce Knowles is still angry at Rihanna for stealing her curvaceous thunder.

• And Geri Halliwell is still…relevant?

Although this video's been making the rounds for some time now, we strongly encourage those of you who haven't seen it to take a look. The subject? Jerry Seinfeld, megalomaniac. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I understand that there’s nothing more satisfying to a journalist than to take someone like me who appears to have had an easy life and appears to have now hit the jackpot. Journalists get a lot of pleasure making me or someone in a situation like mine seem like god-awful people, and that’s always been the assumption about me.

– Jessica Seinfeld acknowledges her public image has always left something to be desired, opens up about her reputation, her cookbook and the beginnings of her relationship with Jerry Seinfeld [NYT]

What’s a little vegetable plagiarism, among friends?

Jerry Seinfeld defended his wife’s honor on Monday night on David Letterman, claiming that any similarity between his wife’s book, Deceptively Delicious, and Missy Chase Lapine’s book, The Sneaky Chef, is just a coincidence. Also, a coincidence: HarperCollins rejected The Sneaky Chef a few months before they published Jessica Seinfeld’s version of it.

Right about now, James Frey and Kaavya Viswanathan are probably wishing they had married successful entertainers.

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Just when you thought it was safe to forget about that Times Op-Ed from four years ago, Valerie Wilson is back.

Her new book, Fair Game, was released today. Portions of the book, which chronicles her experience as an exposed C.I.A. agent, were censored by her former employer’s Publications Review Board. Like a very difficult blind item, those sections are included and blacked out in the new book.

Fair Game is currently number 23 on the Amazon Bestseller list. Unlike Jessica Seinfeld, who has the number one book on the list and is “[not] in this for the money or the publicity,” Wilson could use both the money and the publicity. Because of this scandal, she lost her job and has dealt with a smear campaign against her and husband for the past four years.

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Jessica Seinfeld, who it should be stated as much as possible is married to Jerry Seinfeld, is the author of a best selling cookbook, Deceptively Delicious. The recipes teaches parents how to manipulate their kids into eating spinach. Sounds like A+ parenting.

One problem though. Missy Chase Lapine, who is married to no one famous, published the The Sneaky Chef in April, which has many of the same recipes as Seinfeld's book. Lapine even submitted her book to Seinfeld’s publisher, HarperCollins, in February and May 2006. At the time, HarperCollins rejected Lapine’s book because it was “too similar” to another title on their list.

Of course, no other title on HarperCollins' list had a connection to the guy who put “yada, yada, yada” into the vernacular.

Jessica Seinfeld denies stealing Lapine’s work, and Jerry Seinfeld told the Times, “Let’s be realistic — my wife isn’t in this for the money or the publicity.”

Being famous is so great. Not only do you get book deals you don’t deserve, you get a pass on any possible wrongdoing.

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• Also, out of all the cities full of huge fucking dicks (as in mean people) ours is the sexiest. Woo-hoo! [Gridskipper]

• Jerry Seinfeld throws his wife, Jessica, a huge birthday bash at Il Cantinori. And Sarah Jessica Parker was there. So Sex in the City, minus nobody showing up and the stepping in wet concrete parts. [Page Six]

• This store looks so awesome. We hear Jake Gyllenhaal even shops here. [Curbed]