BY LINDSAY GOLDWERT
Wednesday, November 3rd 2010, 11:56 AM
The French design house Alexander McQueen doesn't have to fear the sound of revving motorcycle engines anymore.
The Hells Angels have settled their lawsuit against the brand as well as Saks Fifth Avenue department store and online retailer Zappos.com. The defendants will pull all merchandise featuring the motorcycle gangs trademark "death's head" insignia, reports New York magazine.
The companies will attempt to recall all merchandise, including rings, dresses and purses featuring the trademarked design and have the pricy items destroyed destroyed.
The Angels insignia is trademarked and for 'members only' said the gang's attorney Fritz Clapp.
In 2006, the Hells Angels filed a lawsuit against Disney for using the Hells Angels name and membership images in its script for the film "Wild Hogs."
The gang withdrew the complaint after receiving assurances that its marks would not appear in the film, according Clapp, reported the Financial Times.
In 1999, the Giuliani administration paid $450,000 to seven members of the Hells Angels and two of the bikers' girlfriends to settle a lawsuit over a police raid on the group's headquarters in the East Village, the New York Times reported.
"The reason for them doing it is, I guess, because we're the Hells Angels," one Angel told the Times. "They have this strange idea that we're all illegal criminals or something.''
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