New Jersey Author Claims Disney's "Frozen" Was Lifted From Her Life Story

  • 27 September 2014

If you haven’t seen or at least heard about Disney’s Frozen, then this article will make no sense to you whatsoever, so all three people, who’ve managed to escape it – go wikipedia that now. All up to speed? Good. So, the popular consensus is that the story about two princesses rediscovering the meaning of friendship, sisterhood and independence was based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. But one woman begs to differ. New Jersey-based author Isabella Tanikumi has launched a lawsuit against Disney, on grounds that the plot of Frozen was lifted from her books Living My Truth and Yearning of the Heart and indirectly, from her life story.

Image caption Tanikumi claims that Disney lifted characters, plot points and visuals from her books.