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Fan gets herpes from Rihanna-endorsed MAC lipstick
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UNCONFIRMED: Though there's definitely a lawsuit claiming it happened
When 28-year-old Harlem resident Starkeema Greenidge went to a Rihanna concert in May, she hoped to take away with her some memory of her brief time in the same building with the star. What she took away instead, she alleges, will unfortunately last a lot longer.
In February, Rihanna signed a deal with MAC Cosmetics to create her own line of makeup. That included RiRi Woo lipstick, a variation on Rihanna's favorite MAC red, Ruby Woo, and the same brand that Greenidge alleges gave her herpes.
According to a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court and reported on by New York Daily News, Greenidge says she was persuaded to try the lipstick at a pop-up shop outside of Barclay's Arena where the concert was held. "(MAC) didn't use a fresh or new lipstick tube, but rather one that had been used for other patrons," the Daily News quotes the suit as charging.
Two weeks later, Greenidge says she developed a cold sore. A doctor later alledgedly diagnosed her as having herpes, a condition Greenidge says cost her two weeks of work as a waitress and, according to the suit, "mental anguish and emotional distress" that can only be relieved by an unspecified sum.
Greenidge told the Daily News that she hopes her suit will prompt MAC to be more sanitary in the future. "This is going to happen over and over again if nothing is done," she told the paper.
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