Cabbage Patch Kids result of Roberts' actions. Thomas died in 2013, at the age of 62, with her most favorite dolls attending her funeral alongside her family members and friends. Then Xavier Roberts himself brought a $30 million lawsuit against Topps, the company that produced grotesque trading cards parodying his company's dolls called the Garbage Pail Kids, for copyright infringement. In 1987, in the midst of the legal proceedings, the makers of the Garbage Pail Kids announced their decision to cease parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, to which Roberts commented to the press "I could scream I'm so excited." One line of Cabbage
Xavier Mattei Xavier Mattei Xavier Mattei is a French zoologist; his research was mainly in the field of sperm ultrastructure, including fish and a variety of invertebrates such as flatworms and acanthocephalans. He is one of the most prolific authors in the field of sperm morphology and its use for the understanding of phylogeny, with more than 150 papers published. Xavier Mattei was a student at the University of Dakar in Senegal, then he became ""Assistant"", later ""Maître-Assistant"" and finally Professor in 1978. He was the Director of the Department of Animal Biology in this University from 1972 to 1986. In 1993,