Margaret Josephs' $12 Million Lawsuit
The Bravo Docket
Cesie and Angela
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Margaret Josephs started her brand, the Macbeth Collection, which was then "known for eye popping color, bold prints and whimsical detailing." [1] Her brand expanded as she licensed her designs for ready-to-wear, bags, accessories, beauty, home, tech accessories and luggage and travel. However, with her licensing deals came business and legal headaches, including the lawsuit established, preppy brand Vineyard Vines filed against the Macbeth Collection for using a design of a cartoon whale on various Macbeth Collection and Macbeth collection licensed products. While Marge was trying to stay afloat and defend herself against Vineyard Vines, she got into the dog house when she backed out of a licensing deal for pet accessories. But were these various licensees working together to give Marge grief?
Join us as we break down each of the lawsuits and share some business advice Marge has bestowed upon her fans directly from her book (check out our Amazon storefront to purchase it https://www.amazon.com/shop/thebravodocket). It's a great example of how quickly things can go wrong when a brand quickly grows.
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| 0:00.0 | In reality television, the people are represented by two separate but equally obsessed attorneys. |
| 0:06.4 | This is their podcast. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi, I'm Sessie, and I'm Angela, and this is The Bravo Docket. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Bravo Docket. |
| 0:27.0 | Today is going to be one of our long-form episodes, and we're covering the lawsuit that Margaret |
| 0:32.4 | Joseph's had against her. She was defending herself against vineyard vines for some of her designs. |
| 0:39.8 | And we're going to give you everything, the background on it. We're going to dive deep into this |
| 0:43.9 | lawsuit and explain it to you in the easiest terms possible. So do you want to start us off, Angela? |
| 0:51.5 | Yes, so who is Margaret Joseph's? I have watched her on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, but |
| 0:57.5 | other than her appearance on the show, I didn't know much about her. |
| 1:01.3 | Sessie, when did she join the Real Housewives New Jersey? |
| 1:03.6 | She joined in 2017. |
| 1:06.2 | And a lot of us that watched the Real Housewives New Jersey know some of this from the show, |
| 1:09.9 | but she was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Hungarian immigrants and raised in Westchester, |
| 1:16.1 | New York, and she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in fashion design. |
| 1:22.2 | She worked in New York's Garment Center as a dress designer, and after the birth of her son, |
| 1:27.6 | she decided to establish her own line of home accessories. I don't know much about fashion, |
| 1:33.6 | but it's one of the best colleges that you could get into for this type of thing, |
| 1:37.5 | my curiosity got the best in me, so I looked up other people that have degrees from FIT, |
| 1:42.2 | and the creator of Bare Minerals, Executive Vice President of Nike, |
| 1:46.5 | the CEO, Creative Director, and Founder of Nautica. Randi Finoli, the television personality |
| 1:52.2 | from Sess to the dress, Nina Garcia, Editor-in-Chief for Elle, and also Project One-ray |
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