Did a mommy blogger trade coverage for dental work?

In a lawsuit, Lowenberg & Lituchy DDS in New York said it agreed to drop Elyssa Stern’s $45,000 bill in exchange for a puff piece that would appear in The New York Observer ’s advertising supplement, Observer Playground. Stern is founder of  Divalysscious Moms , a popular social networking site for parents, and in 2009 edited Observer Playground. Lowenberg & Lituchy is suing Stern because the story never ran. Celebrity Parent Magazine once described Stern as “the epitome …

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