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Hot mess and erstwhile actress and lesbian Lindsay Lohan is in trouble again now that a St.Petersburg, FL, based chemist Jennifer Sunday has filed a lawsuit against Lohan claiming that she and her business partner Lorit Simon stole the formula for the newly launched tanning mist-spray Sevin Nyne, according to Dlisted.
Sunday filed the lawsuit in Tampa federal court suing Lohan, Simon, and Simon's company for "breach of contract, theft of trade secrets, civil conspiracy, intentional interference with contractual relations and deceptive and unfair trade practices."
Simon, a Las Vegas businesswoman who air-brushes tans for celebrities, originally executed a confidentiality agreement in January with Sunday's company, White Wave International Labs. A copy of the contact was included in the lawsuit. The suit stipulates that Simon and Sunday had been on negotiation terms over samples of the tanning mist, but that both sides couldn't reach an agreement on a price.
Lohan and Sunday have never met in person.
"The next thing we know, Lorit Simon and Lindsay Lohan are partnering and Ms. Lohan is taking credit for developing this formula, which she indeed had no role in," said Sunday's attorney, Marcia Cohen on Monday.
Lohan released the tanning mist spray this summer at Sephora, taking credit for co-creating it over the past three years with Lorit Simon. Sevin Nyne retails for $35, according to the store's Web site.
The actress calls it her "sunless secret," and claims she named the fake tanning spray after her lucky numbers.
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"We are certainly looking for the profits that are being generated right now from that product," said Cohen. "If Ms. Lohan and Ms. Simon and their companies and their shareholders are profiting from the theft of my client's formula and are profiting from that product, my client is entitled to those proceeds."
Meanwhile both Lohan's and Simon's reps were not available for comment.
The tanning mist ingredients include goji berry, caramel, Chardonnay extracts and a sugar-coconut base, according to published reports.
According to her website, Sunday graduated from Eckerd College in 1999. She worked as a pharmaceutical analytical chemist after college, before spending time in genetic research at Shriners Hospital in Tampa.
She later launched her own personal care product company and for the past five years has been focusing on creating indoor tanning products.
