Howard Stern with his girlfriend Beth Ostrosky at Da Silvanos in New York City.
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June 20 (Sawf News): Shock Jock Howard Stern maybe about to get hit with a $100 million lawsuit by an advertiser who claims his weight-loss product was trashed on Stern’s radio show.
Kelly Lockwood, CEO of JEC Nutrition, told Page Six he paid hundreds of thousand dollars to promote his fat-burning I57 Ignite on Stern's Sirius gabfest.
On June 6, he said Lee Mroszak, "Crazy Cabbie," was on the show to talk about how he's shed 20 pounds with the product.
"The first thing out of Howard's mouth was, 'Geez, Cabbie, you look fatter than ever,'" Lockwood said. "Then, [Stern sidekick] Ralph Circella says to Cabbie something like, 'What the hell are you doing in here promoting a weight-loss product, you fat piece of [bleep]! Why don't you lose 60 more pounds and then come back?' This was horrendous for us. Our sales have dropped more than 20 percent. In seven minutes, he undid all the good work we did."
Lockwood’s suit will be filed this week in federal court in New Jersey and will charge Stern and Sirius with defamation.
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