Drake has issued an legal warning to the fake Drake. The impersonator, who goes by Izzyy Drake, was issued a cease and desist order. The social media personality took to Instagram Monday (Oct. 24) to share the legal warning he got from Drake’s OVO Sound label.
Izzy Drake shared the letter on Drake’s 36th birthday, Monday. Fake Drake told him that he would follow through in changing his name as a birthday gift.
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The cease and desist letter started with “Dear IzzyyDrake, this letter serves as a notice of your unauthorized use of the trademark, ‘OVO’ to promote your brand and likeness, as well as your unauthorized fabrication of media which is Per Se damaging and defamatory to our brand. Your conducted actions are unwarranted, unwelcome, and unacceptable.”
The letter continued...“In addition, this shall serve as a pre-suit letter demanding that you provide us written assurance within 7 days that you will cease and desist from making any further factually untrue statements involving OVO Sound and/or Drake, and that you will no longer fabricate media that portrays the aforementioned Trademarks. Thank you for your cooperation.”
Fake Drake posted; “Happy birthday to the greatest artist in history and my biggest inspiration,” he wrote. “I got this cease and desist letter from OVO couple days ago and as a respectful b day gift to @champagnepapi I changed my name from IzzyyDrake to Izzyyfamous. More life my OVO brother @preme @bakanotnice @tvgucci.”
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