1st-February-2007
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Suit seeks a tooth for tooth, Manhattan dentist sues dating-book author | |
Quote: Suit seeks a tooth for tooth
BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
A Manhattan dentist to the stars has sued a best-selling dating-book author for $5 million after she trashed him as a heartless quack on LyingDentist.com and BadDentist.com Web sites.
Dr. Larry Rosenthal, whose clients include Donald Trump, Bruce Springsteen and Catherine Zeta-Jones, says he's fed up with being vilified by relationship guru Ellen Fein.
"If she had a life, she wouldn't be harassing him," said David Jaroslawicz, the dentist's lawyer. "What kind of nut sets up something called LyingDentist.com?"
The tooth doc, dubbed the "mouth whisperer" for his New Age methods, says Fein tried to extort $100,000 from him for allegedly ruining her chompers a decade ago.
She also burst into Rosenthal's East Side office and spewed dirt about him, branding him a "big fat liar" and accusing him of sleeping with a friend's daughter, he said.
The dentist says he settled the malpractice claim nine years ago and wants Fein to stop what he says is character assassination in cyberspace.
"She says he ruined her life and ruined her marriage and her teeth aren't as beautiful as they were when she was 6 years old," Jaroslawicz said. "It goes on and on and on. There's got to be some rational end to this."
The Fein-Rosenthal feud has been simmering for years.
The blond author, who lives on Long Island, co-wrote a female-friendly series of dating books called "The Rules," that include nuggets of wisdom like "Be a Creature Unlike Any Other."
Rosenthal is a high-profile proponent of "self-esteem dentistry" and has sold a raft of celebrities on his smile-your-way-to-success theories.
He uses a silent drill, and patients like Joan Rivers, Michael Bolton and Matt Dillon watch videos as he carves up their mouths.
Fein went to Rosenthal to have her teeth spiffed up in 1996. But she says he butchered a mouth realignment and gave her "gigantic" teeth.
On the Web site, she says she experienced intense pain, which even extended to her arms and other parts of her body, and eventually filed a formal complaint with state medical officials.
When Fein broke up with her husband, she blamed that on the dentist, too. "Dr. Rosenthal ... did not care one bit," Fein, 49, moaned on her Web site.
Court records show Fein settled her claim against Rosenthal. But seven years later, she threatened to sue again, branding the deal as "fraudulent."
Fein did not return calls, and her lawyer refused to comment on the suit, which accuses her of defamation, harassment and extortion.
Originally published on January 30, 2007 | Source of the article.
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