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Perez Hilton, the blogger whose real name is Mario Lavandeira Jr. and whose purview ranges from bashing celebrities to sometimes not bashing celebrities, has been slapped with a $2.1 million copyright infringement lawsuit by Robert Caplin, a New York Times photographer. [Racked National]