THIEVES OF ESTHER JONES’ LIKENESS FILE LAWSUITSīy 1932 Helen Kane (shown below) had the audacity to sue (and lose to) Fleischer Studios for $250,000 because get this- she said they STOLE her likeness! But Laaawd, then came the REAL kicker though… They’d created “Betty Boop” as an animated caricature of Helen Kane without her permission and went on to make big bucks from it. That is the studio house responsible for creating the “Betty Boop” animated character that the world knows of today. In 1930, Helen Kane was jacked out of the persona she stole from Baby Esther, by an even bigger player- the then popular animation company, Fleischer Studios. First Thief Gets Jacked By SECOND “Betty Boop” Thief Kane became a far bigger mainstream success than Baby Esther, due to her larger mass appeal with White audiences across the U.S. Afterwards, Kane mocked Esther’s ‘baby style’ voice and persona and in that same year (1928), she recorded the now famous song, “I Wanna Be Loved By You,” which included ESTHER’S original phrase, “Boop-oop-a-doop.” As Helen Kane gained major popularity from that song, she then re-created Baby Esther’s entire likeness- short hair and all- just in a Caucasian image of her own instead…without crediting her original source. Esther “Baby Esther” Jones was jacked by a Caucasian singer, named Helen Kane, who’d heard about Baby Esther through the grapevine and in 1928, visited the Cotton Club in Harlem, to study Esther’s performance.
Here’s where the ‘Olivia Pope’ worthy ‘SCANDAL’ comes in. Her popular singing phrase was “Boop-oop-a-doop.” Everyone knew about her in the Black community, because she was like the ‘Tina Turner’ or ‘Beyonce’ of Black entertainment back then. Her stage name eventually became “Baby Esther” because of her unique, “baby” style of singing. An African American entertainer named Esther Jones, was a regular performer at the then Black Harlem hotspot, The Cotton Club, in the 1920’s. Here’s the real deal behind the original “Betty Boop” inspiration. But what really has many people more angered about this, is the scandal-licious story behind what the individuals who jacked the originator actually had the nerve to do.
BETTY BOOP BLACK BOYFRIEND SKIN
ILOSM fam’ here’s an interesting Old School fun fact: The original inspiration behind the infamous cartoon character, “Betty Boop,” was a Black female singer who, in a nutshell, was jacked out of everything (except her skin complexion)…such as her likeness, her brand, her persona, her signature high pitched baby style of singing, etc.
(L) Reported photo of the real “Betty Boop,” Esther Jones
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