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American stunt legend Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tampa on Monday against rapper Kanye West, label Roc-A-Fella Records, director Chris Milk and distributor AOL for trademark infringement and unauthorized use of the stuntman's likeness. "The guy just disgraced me," Knievel, now 68, retired and living in Clearwater, Florida, told the St. Petersburg Times. "I have done the best I can to set an example for children, and then this guy comes along and tries to rip it apart." "That video that Kanye West put out is the most worthless piece of crap I've ever seen in my life, and he uses my image to catapult himself on the public," Knievel said Tuesday. The rapper pimps himself out in the music video "Touch the Sky" in a red, white and blue jumpsuit that's "visually indistinguishable" from the one Knievel sported during his 1970s motorcycle-jumping heyday. West plays a character named "Evel Kanyevel," who attempts to leap over a canyon in a jet-powered rocket in an apparent homage to the daredevil's famous, if ill-fated, attempt to fly his "skycycle" across Idaho's Snake Canyon back in 1974. |