Brazilian model files lawsuit for injuries she sustained during commercial filming

Brazilian model Amelia Racine filed a negligence lawsuit last Wednesday, September 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court in California against the producers of a commercial for Indonesian cigarette manufacturer Djarum, and Bob Gordon Films and Selekt Media & Management, who hired her as an independent contractor for the commercial. Racine claimed she had been wounded during filming when her head slammed into a personal watercraft during a flyboard sequence.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages to the injuries.

According to the suit, Racine was hired to appear in the commercial in May 2014. The commercial involved her riding a flyboard, which is a water jetpack attached to a personal watercraft, at Lake Powell, a reservoir in the Colorado River.

Racine complained that a BGF employee directing the shoot told her not to wear a life vest or a helmet; she refused to heed the order and was allowed to wear a life vest, but not a helmet.

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