Hadari Oshri sued for copyright infringement in 2017

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By Investor News/Aitana Vargas

NOTA EDITORIAL: Esta serie de investigación galardonada con un premio del LA Press Club en 2022 fue producida por Aitana Vargas para Investor News entre 2021 y 2026. A continuación reproducimos el trabajo original, acompañado de los documentos y las fotografías que forman parte del expediente. En las próximas semanas, iremos difundiendo las entregas completas, las cuales se divulgaron públicamente después de que la justicia de Los Ángeles desestimara intentos judiciales por parte de una de las presuntas implicadas, Hadari Oshri, de prohibir su publicación. Este trabajo está protegido por la Ley de Protección de Periodistas de California (Cal. Const. Art. I, *§ 2(b); California Evidence Code § 1070). La Cronista no renuncia a ningún privilegio o derecho al proceder a su difusión.***

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a frivolous civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against me to stop the publication of my investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, I filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike Oshri’s CHRO petition. In a hearing held on September 13, 2021, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Doreen Boxer granted my anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition for failure to sustain the applicable burden of proof. Oshri will now have to pay my attorney’s fees for filing a frivolous case. She also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email. And what follows are the next installments of my months-long investigative series whose publication Oshri desperately attempted yet failed to stop.

A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime (Part VI)

Oshri’s “Hadari Power Fashion House, Inc.” is no longer active

Los Angeles, CA – One of Hadari Oshri’s now-defunct companies, Hadari Power Fashion House, Inc., was sued in 2017 for copyright infringement, according to court documents obtained by this outlet.

The complaint, filed by CA-based Star Fabrics, Inc. also names Azules and Perfect Ink, Inc. as defendants and alleges that Oshri’s company sold an item under the brand Azules indicating that it was manufactured by or for Azules.

The complaint states that Hadari Power Fashion House, Inc. and the other two defendants manufactured, distributed and/or sold fabric and/or garments featuring a design that was “either identical or substantially similar” to the one registered with the United States Copyright Office by plaintiff Star Fabrics without the latter’s authorization.

LA Press Club award-winning exposé on entrepreneur Hadari Oshri, who uses aggressive legal maneuvers to silence those speak out against her. In 2017, the fashion fairy entrepreneur was sued for copyright infringement. — A complaint filed against Hadari Power Fashion House, Inc. accused the company of copyright infringement.

By creating, distributing and/or selling derivative works through a nationwide network of retail stores, catalogues, and through on-line websites, each of the defendants infringed Star Fabrics’s copyrights, the complaint states.

The document further alleges that the defendants had “actual or constructive knowledge” of the plaintiff’s rights and that their acts were “willful, intentional and malicious.”

Star Fabrics asked for all profits of defendants, all losses incurred, statutory damages and attorneys’ fees.

The case was filed in the Central District of California on April 19, 2017. In July that year, Judge Fernando M. Olguin gave Star Fabrics until July 31, 2017 to serve defendant Hadari Power Fashion House, Incorporated and deliver proof of service by August 2, 2017.

Court records show that on July 13, 2017 the plaintiff filed a notice of settlement with Perfect Ink, Incorporated. On August 1, 2017, Star Fabrics dismissed the case against the other two defendants.

Hadari Power Fashion House, Inc. was created in 2016 and its current status is “SOS/FTB Suspended.”

Oshri is the managing director of Trade Safe Pro, LLC and, along with her partner Patrick Seller, one of the principals of A1A Management, Inc., a company formed in Montana and registered at a luxurious beachfront Malibu condo, just like Trade Safe Pro.

A months-long exposé published on this outlet revealed Oshri’s alleged participation in a joint PPE scheme with conman Marc Lubaszka. The entrepreneurs used Lubaszka’s Fly Private X – whose VP was rapper Dylan Raw – to try to sell millions of dollars worth of PPE that they allegedly didn’t possess. The jet company’s official website went “under construction” following the release of part one of the investigative series and misrepresented that they had fleets of private jets that nobody has seen to this date.

*Read the complaint against Hadari Power Fashion House here.

**If you’d like to share your testimony or story, please contact the reporter at aitana_investigations@protonmail.com or connect with her on Facebook. All emails are checked for legitimacy, spam and viruses and deleted when suspicious malware is detected.

***This is a developing story and will be updated as more information comes in. Last update on April 2, 2022.

****Since Hadari Oshri filed a meritless case against Investor News contributor Aitana Vargas and had previously declined to provide written comments or go on a recorded interview, it is our policy not to seek further comments from the entrepreneur. Oshri is always welcome to reach out and agree to the proposed interview terms. The same policy applies to her former Counsel, John Tamborelli, Lubaszka and Patrick Seller.

*****Story originally published in Investor News on April 2, 2022. Pinche aquí para leer el reportaje original en Investor News, un medio aliado a La Cronista. Lea Parte 1, Parte 2, Parte 3, Parte 4 & Parte 5.