Jennifer Lopez jokes Google owes her a check over viral Versace look

Amaris Encinas, USA TODAYWed, July 1, 2026 at 10:45 PM UTC

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Jennifer Lopez has dollar signs in her eyes, at least when it comes to one of her most famous looks.

In a June 5 episode of the "SubwayTakes Uncut" podcast, JLo, 56, said she should "absolutely" be compensated for inspiring the creation of Google Images after she literally broke the internet with the green Versace dress she wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards.

"I feel like they owe me a check," Lopez said. "I feel like, you know, something. They should have done that just for like, just for karma, for good. You know what I mean? Cuz they're probably trillionaires or whatever."

Eric Schmidt, then Google's executive chairman, confirmed as much, writing in a January 2015 blog post that it was the "most popular search query we had ever seen."

From Spice Girls' Geri Halliwell-Horner to Donatella Versace herself, various celebrities, including JLo (more than once), have donned the exact look, or tasteful dupes, in the decades since its debut in Versace's Fall 1999 campaign and Spring/Summer 2000 show.

Mike Abdalla, star of the searingly sexy Amazon Prime series "Off Campus," is the latest celeb to rock the garment JLo made famous.

"And that dress has just come back into the zeitgeist again with 'Off Campus' and 'On The Floor,'" Lopez said. "Oh, this is (expletive) crazy. So, yes, I wore the Versace dress. Because people searched for it, they invented Google Images."

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JLo's stylist advised against wearing the Versace: 'Not a good move'

The "Let's Get Loud" singer did not follow the advice of her stylist, Andrea Lieberman, who at the time said it wouldn't be a "good move" for Lopez to wear the Versace dress, as multiple stars had already worn it.

Lopez recalled having a fitting session for her Grammys dress on the set of "The Wedding Planner" in 2000, but she wasn't in love with any of the dresses she tried on, so she asked Lieberman to bring her more options.

"I tried on the green one and when I came out ... everybody was like 'That's the dress! That is the dress, that's what you're wearing. Let's go,'" Lopez said in a September 2019 interview with Vogue. Despite Lieberman's dissent, Lopez stood her ground.

"I said, 'This is what we're going to wear,'" Lopez recalled. "I didn't think it was all that risque, to be honest. I was more excited that it was the Grammys. I wasn't really even thinking about the dress that much. I was just glad I had something to wear."

Lopez remembered being met with buzz that night on the red carpet and the Grammys stage alike. The dress left little to the imagination, and it seemed others were more worried about a possible wardrobe malfunction.

"It's nothing. It was all taped down. But that was the moment that kind of captured people's imaginations, I think," Lopez said. "In terms of my career, this dress really marked a moment in time. (Even if) you don't know my music, and you don't know my movies, people know about that moment and that dress. That was it."

Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY

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