Ace lens woman faces lawsuit
NEW YORK: Photographer Annie Leibovitz is facing new accusations of balking at bills, less than a month after she struck a deal intended to resolve financial problems that had risked her rights to some of pop culture’s most famous images.
Investment firm Brunswick Capital Partners LP said in a lawsuit filed on Friday that Leibovitz owes more than $800,000 in fees for its help in arranging her recent financing agreement with another firm, Colony Capital LLC. Through a spokesman, Leibovitz declined to comment yesterday.
New York-based Brunswick said it “made exhaustive efforts” to link Leibovitz with investors who could help her out
of a financial hole
that had threatened
to cost her control of her life’s work.
She has photographed figures
ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Queen Elizabeth during her 40-year career.
Her work includes famous images as a nude and very pregnant Demi Moore,
and a nude John Lennon cuddling with a clothed Yoko Ono hours before his death.