Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska has thrown out a lawsuit against Heidi Klum and the makers of Project Runway in which Cynthia Rodriguez and Elizabeth Zwiebach claim their story was “strikingly similar” to Klum’s Project Runway. 

In addition to suing Klum the duo were also suing Disney, Disney’s Miramax Film Corp, Miramax founders Harvey and Robert Weinstein, their new venture Weinstein Company, and NBC Universal stemming from December 2005.

They claimed to have sent a 40 page outline for the show entitled American Runway, to Klum’s agents after first approaching them about it in July 2003.  Klum’s show aired in December 2004.

The judged dismissed the lawsuit saying that although there were some similarities between the two shows there were more than enough differences to lead her to believe the idea wasn’t poached.

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