Tara Reid to sue Sharknado producers for $100 million

Los Angeles: Actress Tara Reid is taking the Sharknado producers to court.

Reid has accused the producers of the films of misappropriating her likeness and image “for a commercial purpose without her consent,” including slot machines and alcoholic beverages, according to court documents filed on December 6 and obtained by The Blast, reports people.com.

She is now suing Asylum Entertainment and SYFY Media Productions for $100 million in damages.

A representative for Reid did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’S request for comment.

The documents state that “(Reid) alleges that defendants and each of them without her knowledge and prior written consent misappropriated her likeness for the commercial purpose of endorsing by implication gambling products and alcoholic beverages.”

The suit claims that the defendants “wrongfully licensed the rights to use Tara Reid’s likeness (which they do not own) to manufacturers of slot machines, gambling products, and beer makers, who in turn have marketed their products with her likeness, and continue to wrongfully trade and profit therefrom.” As a result, Reid, who stars as April Wexler in the films, alleges that the defendants made “millions of dollars in profits - from the marketing, sale, lease, and distribution of “Sharknado” slot machines bearing the likeness of Plaintiff Tara Reid,” the documents state.