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.