Since Jerry Seinfeld and his alleged-plagiarist wife Jessica are being sued for insinuating on David Letterman’s show that the plagaree is a wacko, hysterical, and an assassin, he’s had to backpedal and do a bit of butt-covering:

In a filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, attorneys for the former sitcom star asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Missy Chase Lapine against Seinfeld and his wife, the New York Daily News reported in Tuesday editions.

“Jerry Seinfeld made overstatements of opinion for comic effect,” the comedian’s lawyers said in the filing.

Lapine is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for copyright and trademark infringement, and made slander and defamation claims.

See, he compared Missy Chase Lapine, author of the first cookbook, to the killers of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon, and she is now suing Jerry and his wife Jessica, author of the second cookbook:

Lapine is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for copyright and trademark infringement, and made slander and defamation claims.

Lapine, the author of “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals,” accused Seinfeld’s wife of plagiarizing her cookbook.

Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food” was published in October; Lapine’s book was published in April.

Lawyers for the Seinfelds dismissed the plagiarism allegations in the court filing, saying, “The idea of sneaking healthy foods into a child’s diet is not original to your author.”

Lapine also contended in her lawsuit that Jerry Seinfeld, while making a promotional stop on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman,” suggested she was a crackpot by comparing her to the killers of Lennon and King.

Well, in a way, Jerry and his lawyers are right.  The idea of hiding healthy foods inside other foods so that your kids will eat more things like fruits and veggies isn’t a new one.  For years, people have been doing things like making brownies with applesauce or hiding yogurt in ranch dip.  I myself did the same thing when my kids were little.  But I did not think up the idea myself…no, I read it in a book.  Sorry, Oprah…your Loboutin-gifting friend wasn’t the first one to pioneer this technique.  This has been going on since I was a little girl and way before then.

However, I didn’t then type up the recipes, change one ingredient (hmm, think I’ll use mild cheddar instead of colby-jack), print them up, create a similarly-sounding title, and sell them for my own profit.  See, there’s the difference.

Sorry Jerry…you and your so-called wife are going down in flames on this one.  Some things you can joke about, but you weren’t joking on this one…by all appearances you were serious (many a true word is said in jest) and you were sending out a signal.  Best let this one drop and tell your wife to go back to whatever it is she does best.

Besides, most of the time, hiding healthy stuff inside other stuff doesn’t work.  My kids weren’t fooled by cauliflower in their grilled cheese when they were little…but there’s no way I’m telling them what’s in my homemade spaghetti sauce.

Jessica Seinfeld has a new book out. Who’s Jessica Seinfeld? Jerry’s wife of course!

For those who don’t remember, Jessica was married for approximately one month to her first husband, Eric Nederlander, a Broadway producer. Then within about three weeks of returning from her honeymoon in Italy with Eric she began seeing Jerry Seinfeld. Nederlander’s family, like Jerry Seinfeld, is has a lot of money, sadly for Eric, just not ENOUGH money for Jessica, who must have been embarrassed by how little money, as she traded up for a much higher level of wealth by marry Jerry Seinfeld.

Jessica and Jerry met while both were members at a hoity-toity health club facility called Reebok Sports Club in New York. She and her husband called it quits not long after Jessica and Jerry met. J and J were married in November of 1999. Jessica was married to her first husband in 1998. What a lucky mother Jessica has to have the good fortune of planning two gala nuptials within almost a year of each other! Oy gevalt!

Yes, all that historical sluttiness aside, we fast forward to now and Jessica is whoring her book Deceptively Delicious to the masses. The premise is about a mom’s futile attempts to get her family to eat healthy, so she decides to start lacing their food with so-called vitamin packed wholesome goodness. I prefer rat poisoning, but whatever works for you.

Of course Oprah, suck up to the stars, had Jessica on her show to further illustrate how the rich and powerful help the rich and powerful stay that way. Predictably, Jessica’s book became a hit. All was good for the Seinfelds until a woman named Missy Chase Lapine, who’d written a book called The Sneaky Chef complained of plagerism.

Jessica’s been defending herself all about town these days, and recently did so on “The View,” showing us the classic body language of a liar. You can watch the video here. Jessica deflects accusations of plagiarism by being passive aggressive:

“I can understand why she would be upset. You know, first of all when you have a huge success, you know this, people tend to look for the cracks, anything that would break you down a little bit. There’s always negative where there’s positive. This was such an immediate success, this book, that I think people were looking for things to pick a part, but I can understand why she would’ve been frustrated.”

Then as a final nail in her guilty-conscience coffin, she goes on the offensive (and I mean offensive), by basically saying she’s so rich she didn’t need to do the book and so therefore she couldn’t have stolen this woman’s idea (not to mention several almost identical recipes):

“She did a book with a similar topic a few months earlier and it must have been hard for her to see how quickly my book took off. I never saw her book or her recipes. Never as a person would I do something like what I was accused of doing. I mean, I really didn’t need to do this book”

To make matters even more obnoxious, Jerry’s going around calling this woman a whacko and making fun of her. Classy Jerry, really classy. I was never a huge Seinfeld fan, but his growing arrogance and contemptible behavior are really starting to wear thin.

Do us a favor Seinfelds, go hide out in your ostentatious Hampton home nursing your guilty heart on the wine of your fermented tears. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Thanks D-Listed!