In a case that was later dismissed, actress TaraReid sued the owners of the Sky Las Vegas Condominiums project in 2005 for using her name alongside a lewd joke in an advertisment for the project.
The walls of her salon on a busy corner of Melrose Avenue are plastered with pictures of Valensi with some of her celebrity clients, including Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, TaraReid and a nest of Playboy bunnies.