Jay-Z

Jay-Z and a business partner sue baseball star David Ortiz and claimed that the Boston Red Sox player's nightclub named after the Dominican hip-hop mogul chain of 40/40 nightclubs. The complaint, filed Thursday in a federal district court in Manhattan, accuses Ortiz and his sister naming her Santo Domingo Forty-Forty Club in the hope that trade in the name of the rapper.

The suit is to forfeit more than $ 5 million in damages for Ortiz and any use of the name. Jay-Z, a Yankees fan who carried the team to the World Series victory parade last year, opened his original 40/40 Club in Manhattan with business partner Juan Perez in 2003 He promoted the sports bar and lounge by dropping references to it in rap hits like "Dirt Off Your Shoulder." The couple later opened 40/40 Club in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and have licensed the name to market participants in Tokyo and Macau.

"David Ortiz is fully aware of plaintiff Manhattan 40/40 Club, a patron since he had it several times before he opened his offenses Forty / Forty Club", said the action Court documents filed contain photographs of Ortiz to the association. SFX Baseball, the agency that represents Ortiz, does not respond to telephone and e-mail messages. The 40/40 Club lawyers also asked the court to block the club from using the name on his Forty Forty Club website.