Oscar-nominated actress Meryl Streep has accused Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld of defamation for comments, published Thursday in Women's Wear Daily, in which he said she declined to wear his dress to Sunday's the Academy Awards ceremony because another designer offered to pay her for the exposure. "Don't continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us," Lagerfeld said he was told after beginning work on Streep's gown.