Lauren Sanchez will promote her new book in Miami. Someone just sued her over it

Back in March, Lauren Sanchez told the crowd at Aspen Ideas climate-change conference in Miami Beach how proud she was to release her first children’s book.

Jeff Bezos’ fiancée explained that “The Fly Who Flew to Space” was about an insect accidentally launched into the final frontier.

Before the conference, on Instagram, Sanchez unveiled the cover’s illustration, a cartoon bug surrounded by stars.

Now, her former yoga instructor in Los Angeles, Alanna Zabel, is suing her, claiming she had a similar idea first, TMZ reports. The woman, who sent two cease and desist letters to her former client back in the spring, is representing herself, without an attorney.

The first letter was reportedly sent to Sanchez’s lawyer on March 25, the second to her publisher, The Collective Book Studio, on April 4. The Miami Herald has yet to view these documents.

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Zabel’s self-published book, “Dharma Kitty Goes to Mars” — which came out in March of last year and is sold, ironically, on Amazon — is a tale of a science student’s pet cat that falls asleep on a space shuttle and wakes up on a different planet.

“The actions of defendant constitute intentional infliction of emotional distress as they were extreme and outrageous, carried out with the intent to harm plaintiff, driven by personal jealousy, and a personal desire to posture publicly as ‘philanthropic and caring,’” the yogi wrote in the complaint, viewed by Page Six.

Zabel, 51, says that throughout their professional relationship, which lasted on and off between 2007 and 2011, the women had many conversations regarding the kid-friendly plot.

Even though they were no longer working together, Zabel said they stayed in touch, with her pitching the idea again soon after Sanchez began dating Bezos, she told the Miami Herald.

Zabel said she had high hopes that Sanchez’s new billionaire boyfriend, who also owns aerospace company Blue Origin, would be interested in helping promote “Dharma Kitty.”

Zabel says Sanchez never emailed her back, but Bezos’ office confirmed receipt of their communication in November 2022.

“I just wanted her to be accountable and to acknowledge that she was inspired by my idea,” the Buffalo, New York, native, told the Miami Herald. “She is not the first celebrity to knock off my work or run with my pitches, but she is the last. I am not motivated by money or status; I am motivated by truth.”

Zabel, asks skeptics to view the two books’ “striking similarities” in a website she helped create, https://aziam.com/archives/2430.

“The fact that I have known Lauren so closely, that I resigned working for her, and that I shared the details of my confidential project with her, is what makes this so damaging,” she continued. “Aside from the legal, it’s simply deplorable for anyone claiming to care about social issues to do something so utterly lacking of integrity.”

Representatives for Sanchez did not immediately return a request for comment. But she told People some months back that the idea had been brewing “a long time.”

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“[It] was a little bit different when I envisioned it all those years ago,” the award winning journalist told the magazine. “Back then it was about a fly that got stuck in a helicopter. I was actually learning to fly helicopters at the time, and it happened to me. I was like, ‘Oh, look at this little fly...who’s flying.’”

The former “Extra” reporter, who lives with Bezos in Indian Creek Village, is set to appear at Books and Books Coral Gables, on Monday evening. The event, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., is to be moderated by media mogul Adriana Cisneros.

“Books & Books proud to present an evening with Lauren Sanchez discussing ‘The Fly Who Flew to Space,’” reads the invite for the kid friendly chat. “Lauren Sánchez, Emmy Award-winning journalist, pilot, and philanthropist, takes readers on a high-flying space adventure with Flynn the Fly in her picture book debut.”

Your purchase ($19.95) includes a glow-in-dark poster inside the jacket, it adds.

Proceeds from each sale of will go to organizations that provide resources to children with learning disabilities, including dyslexia, which Sanchez was diagnosed with as a college student.