FILE – Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting speak in a Paris hotel on Sept. 19, 1968, about the British film “Romeo and Juliet”. The two stars of 1968′s Romeo and Juliet sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Photo: Jean-Jacques Levy/AP, File
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, stars of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” have filed suit against Paramount Pictures, Criterion Collections, and Janus Films over digitally enhanced nude photos of them, contending they never consented to the digital enhancement of their body parts.
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