NJ judge refuses to block release of ‘Jersey Shore’ video depicting fight outside nightclub
By APMonday, February 22, 2010
NJ judge won’t block ‘Jersey Shore’ DVD release
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A New Jersey man who says he was beaten during an episode of MTV’s reality show “Jersey Shore” has lost his bid to stop the release of a video depicting it.
Stephen Izzo Jr. says a show cast member punched him outside a Seaside Heights nightclub.
Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Foster ruled Monday that Izzo “failed to demonstrate any financial or irreparable harm” he’d suffer from the distribution of a DVD box set of the first season of the show, which focuses on the escapades of eight 20-something Italian-Americans thrown together at a shore house last summer. The judge says producers obscured the Bayville resident’s face.
MTV says the show will be back for another season despite complaints by Italian-American groups that it promotes ethnic stereotypes and is “wildly offensive.”
Information from: Asbury Park Press, www.app.com
