Update - Lexi Love® Trademark Clarification: Misidentification and Intellectual Property Rights
Lexi Love® is my name. My brand. My federal trademark. My 20-year entertainment legacy.
SAG-AFTRA actor. Producer. Recording artist. Entrepreneur. Trademark owner.
I started an entertainment brand under the name Lexi Love with commercial use dating back to 2004. After my name appeared across a globally distributed franchise — RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 — without my consent, media headlines began attaching Cody Barnes’ personal disclosures, identity claims, and public controversies to my trademarked brand and legal identity: Lexi Love®.
Lexi Love® was not created by Paramount.
Lexi Love® was not created by World of Wonder.
Lexi Love® was not created by RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Lexi Love® was not created by Cody Barnes.
When I spoke up:
They tried to silence me.
They tried to shame me.
They tried to take my name, my brand, and my legacy.
Barnes pushed baseless public claims attacking my character, including calling me transphobic in the press. At the same time, Barnes used a legal team to demand that I hand over my U.S. and international trademark rights through repeated emails.
That is intimidation.
That is bad faith harassment.
That is an attempt to bully me out of my trademark and brand I built for 20+ years.
Lexi Love® since 2004, before their storyline, before their press cycle, before their legal threats.
Next came the headlines — one after another — all using MY trademarked name “Lexi Love”:
Yahoo News – January 23, 2025
“Lexi Love goes public with HIV status after Trump wipes resources from federal website.”
→ This is identity misattribution and false association of the Lexi Love name.
The Sun – April 14, 2025
“‘I’M A SURVIVOR’ RuPaul’s Drag Race star Lexi Love tearfully reveals she was once a human trafficking victim as ‘homeless drug addict.’”
→ Again, identity misattribution and false association of the Lexi Love name.
Queer Kentucky – May 12, 2025
“Lexi Love enters rehab for substance abuse, emotional therapy.”
→ Identity misattribution and false association of the Lexi Love name.
Then, go a step further. Imagine your past, present, and future colleagues, employers, investors, and fans typing your name into a search engine. Instead of finding your professional history—decades of hard work and innovation—they are presented with a highly publicized, deeply personal narrative that is entirely false as it pertains to you.
Defending my intellectual property and rejecting the erasure of my twenty-year commercial identity provoked severe retaliation. The contestant weaponized their platform against me, triggering a documented wave of doxing, graphic violence, slut shaming, and death threats. Links are in the description; viewer discretion is advised.
They Came For Me: They want to put a successful woman “in her place” because she stood up and refused to be erased.
PUBLIC CLARIFICATION ON “LEXI LOVE” TRADEMARK COVERAGE
In December of 2025, the contestant sued me in federal court, demanding my trademarks be canceled.
I countered, bringing Paramount Skydance and World of Wonder into the case.
On April 17, 2026, my request for a preliminary injunction was denied.
PUBLIC CLARIFICATION ON LEXI LOVE® TRADEMARK COVERAGE
In December 2025, Cody Barnes filed a federal lawsuit seeking cancellation of my 22 year Lexi Love® trademark rights due to her recent fame after appearances on RuPaul's Drag Race S17.
I responded with counterclaims and brought Paramount Skydance and World of Wonder into the case based on their commercial and continued use of my Lexi Love® name.
On April 17, 2026, the court denied my request for a preliminary injunction. That ruling was procedural. It did not decide ownership, priority, infringement, cancellation, or any party’s right to use the Lexi Love® name.
The court did not rule that Cody Barnes, Paramount Skydance, World of Wonder, or any third party has a legal right to use Lexi Love®. The trademark claims remain active in federal court, and the merits have not been adjudicated.
Recent Bloomberg Law coverage of Barnes v. Scola materially understates that distinction. A denial of preliminary injunctive relief is not a final ruling on trademark rights. It does not transfer ownership, authorize continued use, establish priority, or resolve the pending infringement and cancellation claims.
The April 17 order itself recognizes that disputed factual issues remain. The litigation is ongoing.
Anyone receiving a cease-and-desist notice involving Lexi Love® should consult qualified legal counsel and should not rely on headlines or incomplete summaries of an active federal case as a statement of trademark rights.
Lexi Love® remains a federally registered trademark, and the federal litigation remains ongoing..